English Department
ENGLISH 9
EZS101-EZS102
(a-g) / Graduation Requirement
10 Credits
Grade Level: 9
Grade Level Restrictions: None
Prerequisites: None
(Satisfies ENGLISH Graduation Requirements)
Designed to develop and improve students’ skills in reading, writing, listening and speaking. Students learn both creative and expository writing in addition to spelling, vocabulary and language mechanics.
ADVANCED ENGLISH 9
EZS103-EZS104
(a-g) / Graduation Requirement
10 Credits
Grade Level: 9
Grade Level Restrictions: None
Prerequisites: ELA CST – Proficient / A-B in 8th grade English /
Teacher Recommendation
(Satisfies ENGLISH 9 Graduation Requirement)
This course incorporates English 9 curriculum and opportunities
for advanced work – suggested for students identified as gifted
and/or talented. Students can be accepted based on teacher
recommendation, as well.
PACE ADVANCED ENGLISH 9
EPS100-EPS101
(a-g) / Graduation Requirement
10 Credits
Grade Level: 9
Grade Level Restrictions: PACE 9th Grade Only
Prerequisites: Acceptance in to the PACE Program
(Satisfies ENGLISH 9 Graduation Requirements)
This semester-length course is developed for students seeking a
challenge in the area of English Language Arts. Materials and
assignments are designed to lay the ground work for students who
are interested in taking the AP test in their junior or senior
year. This course will move at a rapid pace and students will be
expected to work at a high level. Regardless of these high
expectations, student can expect a fun and enlightening
experience.
ENGLISH 10
EZS301-EZS302
(a-g) / Graduation Requirement
10 Credits
Grade Level: 10
Grade Level Restrictions: 10th, 11th, 12th Grade
Prerequisites: English 9
(Satisfies ENGLISH 10 Graduation Requirements)
This class is designed to address all of the California State
Standards for English Language Arts as directed in the SCUSD
Standards Map issued in August of 2009, as well as the California
Common Core Standards adopted in October of 2010. In addition to
covering the standards in conjunction with our textbook, credits
will include
autobiographical narrative writing, fictional narratives and
short stories, persuasive writing and speaking, indepth analysis
of literary works, functional document analysis, grammar and a
unit on poetry. Students will be working with progress toward the
California Standardized Testing in mind and will complete credits
in the Holt
Literature and Language Arts textbook in addition to enrichment
activities designed to give depth to their understanding of the
material. Sophomore students will spend a considerable amount of
time preparing for the California High School Exit Exam
administered in March.
ADVANCED ENGLISH 10
EZS201-EZS202
(a-g) / Graduation Requirement
10 Credits
Grade Level: 10
Grade Level Restrictions: 10th, 11th, 12th Grade
Prerequisites: ELA CST – Proficient / A-B in Advanced English 9 /
Teacher Recommendation
(Satisfies ENGLISH 10 Graduation Requirements)
This course provides opportunities for creative work in addition
to the regular English 10 curriculum of literature and
composition. This course is also recommended for students with an
“A” in regular English 9.
PACE ADVANCED ENGLISH 10
EPS200-EPS201
(a-g) / Graduation Requirement
10 Credits
Grade Level: 10th
Grade Level Restrictions: PACE 10th Grade Only
Prerequisites: Acceptance in to the PACE Program
(Satisfies ENGLISH 10 Graduation Requirements)
PACE Advanced English 10P is an extensive, two-semester,
literature-based course designed to prepare sophomores with
reading, writing, speaking and listening skills necessary for
success in high school and college. Students will study
curriculum focused on mastering the California State Standards
for English Language Arts and extend skills developed in earlier
grades. In addition, students will learn to write a variety of
essays and receive direct instruction in test taking strategies.
Vocabulary development and grammar instruction will be integrated
into all units. Book Club, mini-research and projects will be
assigned. Two field trips and two cultural events are also
required along with 30 hours of community service. The curriculum
in this class follows the standards and benchmarks outlined by
the State of California.
ENGLISH 11
EZS303-EZS304
(a-g) / Graduation Requirement
10 Credits
Grade Level: 11
Grade Level Restrictions: 11th or 12th Grade
Prerequisites: Successful completion of any English 9 and English
10
(Satisfies ENGLISH 11 Graduation Requirements)
Students study twentieth century American literature through
writing, reading, speaking, and listening. They increase their
skills in comprehension and interpretation of various genres of
literature, both of primary and secondary sources, making
connections of the literature to the historical events during
which or about which the literature is written. They study key
American authors, genres, and literary movements and
techniques.
Students increase higher-level critical thinking skills.
AP ENGLISH 11 LANGUAGE & COMPOSITION
EZS328-EZS329
(a-g) / Graduation Requirement
10 Credits
Grade Level: 11
Grade Level Restrictions: 11th or 12th grade
Prerequisites: A-B in Advanced English 10 / Teacher
Recommendation
(Satisfies ENGLISH 11 Graduation Requirement)
This course emphasizes the study of composition and reading for a
variety of purposes. Both the reading and writing concentrate on
the interactions among the writer’s purposes, audience
expectations, and subjects as well as the way generic conventions
and resources of language contribute to the effectiveness in
writing. This course is also recommended for students with an “A”
in regular English 10.
ENGLISH 12
EZS305-EZS306
(a-g) / Graduation Requirement
10 Credits
Grade Level: 12
Grade Level Restrictions: 12th grade only
Prerequisites: CELDT Intermediate or lower / Teacher
Recommendation
(Satisfies ENGLISH 12 Graduation Requirement)
As the last English course students will take in high school,
this course is designed to prepare students for the rigorous
reading and writing that will be required of them in college and
in the workplace. Students will learn a variety of methods and
techniques designed to make them more insightful and independent
readers and writers. As a class comprised of English Language
Learners this course will help students become more
sensitive to language and communication skills with a strong
emphasis on speaking, since many of these students are reticent
to make mistakes in public speaking. With the course content
comprised of many selections from world literature, the units are
designed to assist students to understand culture, history and
human experience throughout time and place.
AP ENGLISH 12 LITERATURE & COMPOSITION
EZS330-EZS331
(a-g) / Graduation Requirement
10 Credits
Grade Level: 12
Grade Level Restrictions: 12th grade only
Prerequisites: A-B in Advanced English 11 / Teacher
Recommendation
(Satisfies ENGLISH 12 Graduation Requirement)
This course is designed to prepare the student to write at the
college level and enhance the study skills that make that writing
possible. It fulfills the English requirements for graduation in
this district and is particularly geared to prepare for the AP
Literature and Composition Exam. This course is also recommended
for students with an “A” in regular English 11.
EXPOSITORY READING & WRITING
ERW100/ERW101
(a-g) / Graduation Requirement
10 Credits
Grade Level: 12
Grade Level Restrictions: 12th grade only
(Satisfies ENGLISH 12 Graduation Requirement)
Prerequisites: CELDT Intermediate or lower / Teacher
Recommendation
The goal of the Expository Reading and Writing Course (ERWC) is
to prepare college-bound seniors for the literacy demands of
higher education. Through a sequence of eight to ten rigorous
instructional modules, students in this yearlong, rhetoric-based
course develop advanced proficiency in expository, analytical,
and argumentative reading and writing. The cornerstone of the
course—the ERWC Assignment Template—presents a scaffold process
for helping students read, comprehend, and respond to nonfiction
and literary texts. Modules also provide instruction in research
methods and documentation conventions. Students will be expected
to increase their awareness of the rhetorical strategies employed
by authors and to apply those strategies in their own writing.
They will read closely to examine the relationship between an
author’s argument or theme and his or her audience and purpose;
to analyze the impact of structural and rhetorical strategies;
and to examine the social, political, and philosophical
assumptions that underlie the text. By the end of the course,
students will be expected to use this process independently when
reading unfamiliar texts and writing in response to them.