- Wall High School
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ENGLISH 12 CP
This course provides students with challenging reading, writing, and thinking experiences. The design, materials, and approaches for this course enable students to establish a mindset that anticipates the intellectual sophistication necessary for success beyond high school. Students receive instruction and practice in the workshop model. Students will analyze literature from diverse authors. In order to develop writing skills, students will focus on literary analysis, narrative, and persuasive writing techniques. Students will be required to write a research paper reinforcing MLA format. Students will analyze the study of literary genres such as memoir, existentialism, drama, and nonfictional works of literature as they develop their critical thinking skills in a culminating project.
English 12 Honors
This course is designed for the student who has developed exceptional proficiency in
critical reading and thinking as well as advanced writing skills. Students are challenged
with numerous fictional literary readings from several genres and related non-fiction. In
In addition, students complete many writing assignments and extensive outside readings.
Students explore the modes of writing on a more sophisticated level; journal writing will
address students’ creative talents, while other assignments will be analytical in nature.
Students use MLA and The BIG6 information literacy model to conduct problem-based
research projects.