English 4H (138H)
1 Credit
Grade 12
Prerequisite: English 3

This year-long course is a combination of College Writing and World Literature. Students will read, discuss and analyze professionally written essays and texts (consisting of selected works from ancient cultures and Shakespeare to present day) in order to analyze how writers use structure, details and point of view to influence the way a story engages readers. Students will then write original essays so that they may demonstrate their understanding of how a writer uses, organizes and develops specific details and arguments. Students will polish their ability to craft strong thesis statements, research and cite effective supporting and relevant information to support their arguments, and strengthen their language usage. This class is a mixture of seminar, in which literature is discussed, analyzed, and evaluated, and writing workshop in which conferences are held to refine writing skills. Students will continue to practice close reading strategies, discuss a wide range of literature, and survey the critical approaches used in that literature in order to analyze and evaluate. By the end of the year, students will have composed various types of writing (persuasion, process analysis, classification, analysis and inquiry-based argument) that have a wide range of academic, professional and practical uses.

English 4 Standards, Indicators and Scoring Criteria