English 4 Options

Advanced Placement

• College level course
• College credit depending upon test score
• Application process and summer work

Science Fiction

• Six full length novels, short stories, and essays
• Formal essays
• Homework: reading, essay writing, vocabulary study, projects.

Contemporary Literature

• Seven full-length multicultural novels, short stories, essays, and poems.
• Formal essays
• Homework: reading, essay writing, vocabulary study, project work, literature responses.

British Literature

• Two classical novels, Shakespearean play, poetry, short stories, and novel excerpts.
• Formal essays
• Homework: reading, essay writing, vocabulary study, project work, creative writing.

Shakespeare

• Seven plays, and Shakespeare's sonnets
• Formal essays
• Attendance is essential due to reading and responding to the plays as we read them.
• Homework: essay writing and vocabulary study.

Career Composition and Reading

• Two short novels, biography, short stories, essays, and technical documents.
• Written responses to literature, practice in essay writing, journal entries, business correspondence