• COURSES IN ENGLISH ▲

  English - General Description
  Students enrolled in English I-IV continue to increase and to refine their communication skills. High school students are expected to plan, draft, and complete written compositions on a regular basis.
  Students edit their papers for clarity, engaging language, and the correct use of the conventions and mechanics of written English and produce final, error-free drafts.

  1024 English II (ENG2)(03220200) 1 Credit
  For this course, students will engage in activities that build on their prior knowledge and skills in order to strengthen their reading, writing, and oral language skills. Students are expected to analyze archetypes in mythic, traditional and classical literature. Students read extensively in multiple genres through stories, dramas, novels, and poetry from diverse cultures. Students learn literary forms and terms associated with the selections being read. All forms of writing are practiced. An emphasis is placed on persuasive forms such as logical arguments, expressions of opinion, and personal entries. These personal forms may include a response to literature, a reflective essay, or an autobiographical narrative. Reading and writing should happen on a daily basis.
  Grade: 10
  Prerequisite: English I

  1044 English IV (ENG4)(03220400) 1 Credit
  This course requires students to engage in activities that build on their prior knowledge and skills in order to strengthen their reading, writing, and oral language skills. Students are expected to compare/contrast the effects of different forms of narration across various genres of fiction, as well as demonstrate familiarity with works of fiction by British authors from each major literary period. These periods may include the old English period, medieval period, English renaissance, 17th century, 18th century, romantic period, Victorian period, and modern and post-modern period. A variety of writing is taught; including business, personal, literary, and persuasive texts. Reading and writing should happen on a daily basis.
  Grade: 12
  Prerequisite: English III

  1045 English IV (Dual Credit) 1 Credit
  This course provides the opportunity for students to receive both high school and college credit at the same time. Students who enter this course must meet the enrollment criteria of Panola College. During the first semester, the course will include an intensive study of writing and reading skills, including research techniques. The second semester content will emphasize reading, critical thinking, research skills, and writing about various genres of literature. This course will be taught on the CHS campus.
  Grade: 12
  Prerequisites: English III
  College entrance requirements apply.

  1014 English I (ENG1)(03220100) 1 Credit
  In this course, students will engage in activities that build on their prior knowledge and skills in order to strengthen their reading, writing, and oral language skills. Students are expected to analyze the influence of mythic, classical and traditional literature on 20th and 21st century literature. Students read extensively in multiple genres through stories, dramas, novels, and poetry from diverse cultures. Students interpret the possible influences of the historical context on a literary work. Students practice all forms of writing. An
  emphasis is placed on organizing logical arguments with clearly expressed related definitions, thesis, and evidence. Students write to persuade, to report and to describe. Reading and writing should happen daily.
  Grade: 9
  Prerequisite: None

  1034 English III (ENG3)(03220300) 1 Credit
  This course requires students to engage in activities that build on their prior knowledge and skills in order to strengthen their reading, writing, and oral language skills. Students are expected to relate the
  characters and text structures of mythic, traditional, and classical literature to 20th and 21st century American novels, plays, or films. Periods may include the pre-colonial period, colonial and revolutionary period, romanticism and idealism, realism an naturalism. All forms of writing are practiced. An emphasis is placed on business forms of writing such as the report, the business memo, the narrative of a procedure, the summary or abstract, and the resume. Reading and writing should happen on a daily basis.
  Grade: 11
  Prerequisite: English I

  1035 English Language and Composition AP (Level III)
  (APENGLAN)(A3220100) 1 Credit
  This course prepares students for the English Language and Composition Advanced Placement examination by engaging students in becoming skilled readers of prose written in a variety of periods, disciplines, and rhetorical contexts and in becoming skilled writers who compose for a variety of purposes. Both their writing and their reading should make students aware of the interactions among a writer’s purposes, audience expectations, and subjects as well as the way generic conventions and the resources of language contribute to effectiveness in writing.
  Grade: 11
  Prerequisite: English II
  Recommended: English II Pre-AP

  1047 English Literature and Composition AP (Level IV) (APENGLIT)(A3220200) 1 Credit
  This course is designed to prepare students for the English Literature and Composition Advanced Placement examination by engaging students in the careful reading and critical analysis of imaginative literature. Through the close reading of selected texts, students will deepen their understanding of the ways writers use language to provide both meaning and pleasure for their readers. As they read, students will consider a work’s structure, style, and themes as well as such elements as the use of figurative language, imagery, symbolism, and tone. The course will included intensive study of representative works form various genres and periods. Writing assignments will focus on the critical analysis of literature and will include expositor, analytical, and argumentative essays as well as well constructed, creative writing assignments. Emphasis will be placed on helping students develop stylistic maturity.
  Grade: 12
  Prerequisite: English III
  Recommended: English III AP

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• CAREERS IN ENGLISH ▲

  Writers and Authors - www.bls.gov/ooh/media-and-communication/writers-and-authors.htm

  Public Relation Specialists - www.bls.gov/ooh/media-and-communication/public-relations-specialists.htm

  Editor - www.bls.gov/ooh/media-and-communication/editors.htm

  Technical Writer - www.bls.gov/ooh/media-and-communication/technical-writers.htm

  Reporters & Correspondents - www.bls.gov/ooh/media-and-communication/reporters-correspondents-and-broadcast-news-analysts.htm

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