Emphasis will be on fundamental language, reading, and writing skills. The program will emphasize vocabulary, composition skills, research skills, and provide the students with a variety of writing strategies. These courses include studies of short stories, poetry, the novel, drama, non-fiction, and myths.

     Emphasis will be on fundamental language, reading, and writing skills. The program will emphasize vocabulary, composition skills, research skills, and provide the students with a variety of writing strategies. These courses include studies of short stories, poetry, the novel, drama, non-fiction, and myths.
 
 

  Emphasis will be on fundamental language, reading, and writing skills. The program will emphasize vocabulary, composition skills, research skills, and provide the students with a variety of writing strategies. These courses include studies of short stories, poetry, the novel, drama, non-fiction, and myths.
 
 

      Emphasis will be on fundamental language, reading, and writing skills. The program will emphasize vocabulary, composition skills, research skills, and provide the students with a variety of writing strategies. These courses include studies of short stories, poetry, the novel, drama, non-fiction, and myths.
 
 

Emphasis will be on the fundamentals of writing especially those associated with communication in the work place. Students will develop the skills needed to compose business letters that communicate effectively, as well as those skills that are required to increase the productivity of the work place. Counts as a fourth English credit for minimum plan only.
 
 

    English I Pre-AP is designed to prepare students for the English Advance Placement Exam given at the senior level. This course includes extensive independent reading and research in all genres of world literature, development of critical thinking skills, and the use of the writing process to compose various forms of discourse for a variety of audiences and purposes. Students must be prepared to devote considerable time to independent readings and outside research projects.
 
 

  English II Pre-AP is designed to prepare students for the English Advance Placement Exam given at the senior level. This course includes extensive independent reading and research in all genres of world literature, development of critical thinking skills, and the use of the writing process to compose various forms of discourse for a variety of audiences and purposes. Students must be prepared to devote considerable time to independent readings and outside research projects.
 
 

    English III PreAp is designed for the serious student of English who plans to attend a four-year university and to take English IV AP.The curriculum includes composition and research skills with a continued emphasis on outside reading and vocabulary building. Strong attention will be given to the development of composition skills necessary to pass an AP exam.  Literary emphasis is on American authors, culture, and ideas. Students must be prepared to devote considerable hours to independent readings and outside projects.
 
 

     English IV AP is designed to provide college level studies and is designed for students with an above average ability in English III who are planning to enter a four-year university upon high school graduation. Students will read and analyze British literary works in class and will read widely outside class. The instruction provides the students with sophisticated techniques for success in writing on a college level. The students will have the opportunity to take the Advanced Placement exam for literature/composition at the end of the course.
 
 

English AP Language & Composition is designed as an elective course to provide college bound students an opportunity to prepare for the AP Language & Composition exam. This course is designed to engage students in becoming skilled readers of prose written in a variety of periods, disciplines, and rhetorical contents. The students will have the opportunity to take the Advanced Placement exam for English Language & Composition at the end of the course.
 
 

British Literature continues the emphasis on writing in response to literature, vocabulary acquisition, and development of critical thinking skills and reading comprehension through literary analysis. This course is offered in conjunction with Blinn College freshman-level English 1301-1302. Students enrolling must be highly self-motivated and should possess an eagerness to investigate the nature of our language and literature as it has developed in England during the last fifteen hundred years. Course requirement includes two literary research papers and outside reading of several representative novels, plays, and poetry collections. Additional summer reading is suggested. Blinn tuition and fees are applicable.

ESOL - This course is designed only for immigrant students who have a primary language other than English. Two courses may take the place of regular English.

Read 180 is a state elective class that offers a combination of instructional, modeled, and independent reading instruction for secondary students with reading difficulties. The class provides computer assisted instruction, small group instruction provided by a secondary reading specialist, and independent reading from a wide variety of genres. Reading 180 does not satisfy any of the English class requirements.
 
 

Lane, Jennifer English I Kocian-Petty, Shirene English II Martinez, Kimberly English I Campbell, Tracy  Dept. Chair Eng III, AP  Language and Composition McCune, Leia ESL	Caudill, Diane English II McClendon, Buffie English III Hinds, Julie English III Kirts, Laurie Journalism, Yearbook, Com. App. Knebel, Rosemary English IV	Forsythe, Mike English I Schulze, Mary  English III Williams, Donna English II Fielding, Donna English I Dusek, Beth Com. App