Classes Offered

Course ID: 436

A-G: – CSF

Course: List III

 

This course is designed for students identified as English Language Learners at the beginning of oral, reading, listening, and writing skills in English. Students may have varying levels of proficiency in their primary languages. The goals and standards are based on the California ELD Standards: Grades 6-8. The objective of the course is for students to acquire the necessary English language skills to enter and experience success in regular English classes. Both oral and written English language skills are emphasized in the class. Placement for this class is determined by 8th-grade teachers' recommendations and English proficiency exit test during the Spring semester of 8th grade, as well as state testing results.

Course ID: 426

A-G: –

CSF Course: List III

 

This course is designed for students identified as English Language Learners at the beginning of oral, reading, listening, and writing skills in English.

Course ID: 424

A-G: –

CSF Course: List III

Course ID: 421

A-G: –

CSF Course: List III

 

Bridge the connection between understanding literary stories and our own life’s story.

Course ID: 410

Graduation A-G: Area B

CSF Course: List I

Requirement: English

 

English This is a literature-based curriculum using several major novels, along with numerous short stories and poems to help students gain an understanding of important human moral values. Students will develop skills in the areas of reading, vocabulary development, speech, and increased writing skills, particularly in the area of sentence patterning and paragraphing. The curriculum for this course is based on the California Content Standards for Reading and Language Arts for grade 9.

Course ID: 420

Graduation Requirement: English A-G:

Area B English C

SF Course: List I

 

English II is a literature survey course that introduces sophomore students to world literature texts from various countries and cultures: from antiquity through modern-day. Students discover and explore the ideas, experiences, and stories emerging from a shared human experience with people of different races, cultures, and histories. By evaluating common themes in world literature and studying how culture and history influence what people write, students will understand what unifies people as a global community. The course will introduce fundamental aspects of archetypal literary criticism, and students will apply archetypal theory to analyze: mythology, epic poetry, world drama, contemporary fiction and nonfiction texts, and poetry from various cultures and historical periods. Developing students’ fluency and communicative competence in the academic and content-specific discourse related to the study of world literature and literary arts scholarship, in general, will also be prioritized. After completing English II successfully, students will have gained a stronger awareness and sensitivity to people of different cultures and global perspectives, which will help develop both the hard and soft skills necessary for college and career life.

Course ID: 430

Graduation Requirement: English

A-G: Area B English

CSF Course: List I

 

English III is a literature-based course that uses a variety of literary works to help students gain an understanding of important human and moral values through the study of major literary periods of American history, including the Puritan Age, The Age of Reason, The Romantic Age, The Age of Realism, and The Modern Age. The course includes works of various genres (short stories, novels, essays, films, poetry, etc) and is designed to help students develop skills in the areas of vocabulary development, reading, writing, listening, speaking, and critical thinking.

Course ID: 431

Graduation Requirement: English

A-G: Area B English

CSF Course: List I

 

An AP English Language and Composition course cultivates the reading and writing skills that students need for college success and for intellectually responsible civic engagement. The course guides students in becoming curious, critical, and responsive readers of diverse texts and becoming flexible, reflective writers of texts addressed to diverse audiences for diverse purposes. The reading and writing students do in the course should deepen and expand their understanding of how written language functions rhetorically: to communicate writers’ intentions and elicit readers’ responses in particular situations.

Course ID: 445

A-G: Area B English

CSF Course: –

 

The AP English Literature and Composition course focuses on reading, analyzing, and writing about imaginative literature (fiction, poetry, drama) from various periods. Students engage in close reading and critical analysis of imaginative literature to deepen their understanding of the ways writers use language to provide both meaning and pleasure. As they read, students consider a work’s structure, style, and themes, as well as its use of figurative language, imagery, and symbolism. Writing assignments include expository, analytical, and argumentative essays that require students to analyze and interpret literary works.

Course ID: 439

Graduation Requirement: English

A-G: Area B English

CSF Course: List I

 

Expository Reading and Writing Course (ERWC) engages students in the discovery of who they are as persons, the realization of the ways in which they can participate in society, and their development as critical consumers and effective communicators within society. Teachers and schools build and personalize the yearlong course by selecting from approximately 35 modules (instructional units) to meet rigorous, college preparatory learning goals in reading, writing, listening, and speaking for all students while promoting student interest and motivation. Employing a rhetorical, inquiry-based approach that fosters critical thinking, student agency, and metacognition, the course includes six full-length modules drawn from five categories: 1) American foundational documents; 2) American drama; 3) full-length books; 4) research; and 5) contemporary issues (two modules). In addition, the course includes five concept mini-modules that address transferable skills applicable to conceptual development and practice across all modules, e.g., genre awareness, goal setting and self-assessment, rhetorical situation, and Aristotelian appeals. The core structure of all the modules— the Assignment Template—progresses along an “arc” from reading rhetorically (preparing to read, reading purposefully, and questioning the text) to preparing to respond (discovering what you think) to writing rhetorically (composing a draft, revising rhetorically, and editing). By the end of the course, students will have read a range of literary and nonfiction text genres and produced 10-12 culminating projects, including academic essays, research reports, creative writing and performances, and multimedia presentations, from initial draft to final revision and editing.

Course ID: 450

A-G: Area B English

CSF Course: List I

 

This course focuses on critical reading and thinking, research strategies, and scholarly composition with proper documentation at the college transfer level. Students write expository, analytical, and argumentative essays informed by assigned readings, discussion, and/or research. (02/22) **Please note, this course is a community college transferable course equivalent to 12th-grade English at LGHS. To enroll in this course students must have successfully completed every semester of English with grades of C or better.