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meets the District graduation requirements, but not the CSU Expository Reading & Writing – 217410
UC/CSU a-g entrance requirements. 10 Credits Grade(s) 12
1 Year Course
English 11 CP – 210510 UC Requirement b
10 Credits Grade(s) 11 CSU Requirement English
1 Year Course School Site(s) BCHS, LHS, MHS
UC Requirement b
CSU Requirement English The goal of the Expository Reading and Writing Course
School Site(s) BCHS, LHS, MCHS, is to prepare college-bound seniors for the literacy
MHS, THS demands of higher education. Through a sequence of
Description: The course emphasis is on junior core fourteen rigorous instructional modules, students in
works of American literature. Speech and research this yearlong, rhetoric-based course develop advanced
skills are addressed as well as reading of various types proficiency in expository, analytical and argumentative
– short stories, short fiction, poetry, and novels. reading and writing.
Writing and other communication skills are literature
based. Students develop an understanding of, and English 12 – 210800
appreciation for, American literature. This English
curriculum is based on the California Common Core 10 Credits Grade(s) 12
Standards for English-Language Arts. 1 Year Course
School Site(s) BCHS, IHS, LHS, MCHS,
English 11 Support – 213700 – students must be MHS, THS
enrolled in English 11 Description: Students study representative works of
10 Credits Grade(s) 11 world literature to broaden their global and cultural
1 Year Course perspectives. This course prepares students for college
School Site(s) IHS level reading and writing. It is a literature-based
Description: Description: This course is designed to course which will emphasize higher order thinking
support student success in the English 11 CP class. skills, intensive narrative, expository and analytical
The English 11 Support curriculum is based on the writing. This English curriculum is based on the
English 11 CP curriculum and the California Common California Common Core Standards for English-
Core Standards for English Language Arts. The Language Arts. This course meets the District
reading selections and activities provide a parallel graduation requirements, but not the UC/CSU a-g
opportunity for students to learn grade level standards entrance requirements.
and improve skills in reading, writing, listening, and
speaking. This course will focus on strategies that English 12 CP – 210810
support English learners and other identified students 10 Credits Grade(s) 12
that need support in fulfilling the English 11 CP course 1 Year Course
requirements. UC Requirement b
CSU Requirement English
AP English Language & Composition – 217016 School Site(s) BCHS, LHS, MCHS,
10 Credits Grade(s) 11 MHS, THS
1 Year Course Description: Students study representative works of
UC Requirement b world literature to broaden their global and cultural
CSU Requirement English perspectives. This course prepares students for college
School Site(s) BCHS, LHS, THS, MHS level reading and writing. It is a literature-based
course which will emphasize higher order thinking
Description: This AP course in English language and skills, intensive narrative, expository and analytical
composition engages students in becoming skilled writing. This English curriculum is based on the
readers of prose written in a variety of periods, California Common Core Standards for English-
disciplines, and rhetorical contexts and in becoming Language Arts
skilled writers who compose for a variety of forms -
narrative, exploratory, expository, argumentative—and English 12 Support Class – 213800 – students must be
on a variety of subjects from personal experience to enrolled in English 12
public policy, from imaginative literature to popular 10 Credits Grade(s) 12
culture. The course requires expository, analytical, and 1 Year Course
argumentative writing assignments. As in the college School Site(s) IHS
course for which the AP Language and Composition Description: This course is designed to support the
course substitutes, its purpose is to enable students to English learner in successful completion of English 12.
read complex texts with understanding and to write Students are provided with specific instruction in
prose of sufficient richness and complexity to vocabulary, grammar, reading comprehension skills,
communicate effectively with readers. Students are and writing. The emphasis is previewing the
strongly encouraged to take the AP exam. Summer instruction in English 12 class so students can
reading and accompanying assignments are required. successfully complete the requirements of the class.
Recommended pathway: complete honors process
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