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AP English Literature & Composition – 217116 Description This is an integrated course integrating
10 Credits Grade(s) 12 English content with a focus on Health Science and
1 Year Course Medical Technology – Patient Care specifically., The
UC Requirement b course is designed to help students develop a thorough
th
CSU Requirement English understanding of 11 grade English through a course
School Site(s) BCHS, LHS, MHS, THS rich in connections to Health Science that will generate
Description: This course is designed to prepare college interest in English and increase student success. The
bound seniors for English Literature 12, AP test. The course allow students to make connections between
class will be based on the study of literature with English learning and content structures as they apply
extensive assignments in critical reading, preparing to a career in patient care.
them for college-level critical reading and literary
analysis. Students write intensively, primarily critical, Creative Writing CP – 215010
analytical essays related to the literature they are 10 Credits Grade(s) 9-12
studying. They write frequently in class, sharpening 1 Year Course
their abilities to respond to the kinds of essay questions UC Requirement b
they will face on the AP exam and as college students in CSU Requirement English
timed writing situations. Note: This course is designed School Site(s) BCHS, THS (11-12)
for the highly motivated student who is responsible Description: This is a writing course with an emphasis
enough to handle rigorous reading and writing on the exploration of writing techniques used by great
assignments on a daily basis, and to complete summer writers, past and present. Poetry and fiction writing as
reading and/or between sessions reading as well. well as creative non-fiction writing form the basis of
Students are strongly encouraged to take the AP exam. instruction. This English curriculum is based on the
Summer reading and accompanying assignments are California Content Standards for English-Language
required. Recommended pathway: complete honors Arts.
process.
Journalism – 211110
Shakespeare in Performance and on Film - 217610 10 Credits Grade(s) 9-12
English first and then elective credit 1 Year Course
10 Credits Grade(s) 12 UC Requirement g
1 Year Course CSU Requirement Elective
UC Requirement School Site(s) BCHS, MHS, THS
CSU Requirement English Description: This writing course gives students practice
School Site(s) BCHS, THS in all types of newspaper writing. Students learn
Description: This college preparatory course offers a editing, style, headline and lead writing, interviewing,
study of Shakespeare for the student who enjoys and editorial writing, as well as advertising,
reading and watching a variety of the Bard’s comedies photography, finance, and the production of an actual
and tragedies, such as As You Like it, The Tempest, newspaper. This English curriculum is based on the
Macbeth, and Othello Students will study various California Content Standards for English-Language
directors’ interpretations of the same play such as the Arts.
Globe Theatre’s stage productions and Kenneth
Branagh’s interpretations of Hamlet. Students will also Journalism Advanced Yearbook – 282115
examine how production of stage differs from 10 Credits Grade(s) 10-12
production of film. We will learn how actors and 1 Year Course
directors engage in rehearsal and discover subtexts, UC Requirement g
especially as it is given through the complexity of CSU Requirement Elective
Shakespeare’s language, prose, and verse. Students School Site(s) BCHS, LHS, MHS, THS
will read critical essays on plays and play production, Description: This course is designed to produce the
will perform group scenes from their favorite plays, and school yearbook and students will be responsible for the
select and perform a great Shakespearean monologue. conception, design, and production of the yearbook.
This course is especially recommended for students who Students learn to function effectively in deadline
are interested in the areas of performance, film, situations where everyone plays a key role. Graphic
theatre, or literature. design, copy and caption writing, basic photography, as
well as sales and advertising techniques are taught.
The Dynamic Literacy of Patient Care (Health Career This course may be repeated for credit. This English
Academy Students only) – 218542 curriculum is based on the California Content
10 Credits Grade(s) 11 Standards for English-Language Arts.
1 Year Course
UC Requirement b
CSU Requirement English
School Site MHS

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