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ENGLISH 11

L500 *^
L515 CTP ACADEMY *^
E414 SPECIAL ED ^

CTP is offered at El Modena only
English 11 integrates the skills of reading, analysis, interpretation, writing, research, speaking and listening through a literature-
based curriculum. This is a survey course exploring the literature of the United States from the earliest English settlers to the
present. All genres as well as the characteristics of the various literary movements and their represented authors are studied.
Composition emphasizes the four basic domains of writing. Speaking and listening skills are enhanced through a variety of
speech activities.

COMMUNICATION BY DESIGN: ENGLISH AND MEDIA DESIGN - HONORS
L502 *

Offered at El Modena High School Only

Communication by Design is a UC-designated Honors course for 11 grade students. The course integrates English with Visual
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Design and Media Arts by giving students the ability to communicate to different audiences in a variety of text formats as it
applies to analog media, digital media, and real-world digital representations. Through repeated assignments and strategies,
students develop and reinforce academic and industry-related foundational concepts and skills such as website construction,
document specific formatting, career connections, analytical and informative writing and collaboration. Using effective
speaking and listening skills, students convey a variety of messages both informative and persuasive, demonstrate mastery of
ENGLISH/LANGUAGE ARTS leading to the Culminating Project at the end of the year.
visual representation of information, and conduct interviews with community and industry professionals as well as prepare for
career based interviews. Analytical essays incorporate rhetorical strategies to develop persuasive/arguments and claims in
both written and visual representations. Students deliver clear, organized presentation specific to the concept of each unit and

Students end the course with a choice of projects that expand on the performance task of one of the units. They begin with
the basic product of the unit performance task; increase its sophistication, depth, and professionalism.

AP ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND COMPOSITION
L512 *^

AP English Language and Composition is a college level course typically offered to 11 grade students. The focus of this course
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is to engage the student in becoming an analytical reader and college proficient writer. The student will analyze narrative,
expository and argumentative texts. The concentration is on the use of rhetorical strategies and stylistic devices. Organization
of writing will focus on content, purpose, and audience allowing formulaic writing to become sophisticated.
ENGLISH 12
L660 *^
L615 CTP ACADEMY *^
E415 SPECIAL ED ^

CTP is offered at El Modena only
English 12 integrates the skills of reading, analysis, interpretation, writing and speaking through a literature-based curriculum
that is flexible enough to allow a linear, thematic or blended approach of study. Students will study authors in British, Western,
and World Literature. They will analyze style, techniques and philosophies, and examine the backgrounds, societies, cultures,
and worlds of those writers. Composition activities will use the tenets of the writing process, emphasize the domains of writing
and engage the students in a variety of oral and written products. Study of grammar, usage, punctuation, spelling and structure
will be ongoing.

ENGLISH 12: EXPOSITORY READING AND WRITING

L732 *^
Expository Reading and Writing will prepare college-bound seniors for the literacy demands of higher education. Through a
sequence of fourteen rigorous instructional modules, students in this yearlong, rhetoric-based English course develop advanced
proficiencies in expository, analytical, and argumentative reading and writing.

KEY * meets UC approval for “A-G” ^ meets course requirements for NCAA
An “E” at the end of the course number indicates that the class is offered online through Virtual Learning