Required Supplies: TWO-INCH BINDER, blue/dark green pens, pencils, erasers, college ruled filler paper, binder dividers, white-out, highlighter, ultra-fine sharpie, color markers or colored pencils,and sticky notes and clear sticky tabs; LHS Google, Turnitin.com, SpringBoard Digital, and EasyBib accounts
Major Texts: SpringBoard Grade 11 Workbook; The Crucible (play), Into the Wild (novel), Their Eyes Were Watching God (novel), addt’l for Honors, The Grapes of Wrath, The Manchurian Candidate, The Great Gatsby
SEMESTER 1 (FALL 2018): American Literature = ½ credit
This semester course explores the traditional and contemporary literary works of the United States of America from pre-Colonial America through the present. Students will read fiction and nonfiction texts that include poetry, short stories, articles, dramas, and novels by major American authors which explore American ideals of economics, history, emotion, culture, individuality, freedom, etc.
SEMESTER 2 (SPRING 2019): Expository Writing 1 = ½ credit
This semester course explores exposition; it is a type of oral or written discourse that is used to explain, to describe, and to give information. This course will cover the three main types of Exposition as described by the Common Core State Standards Initiative: Argumentative, Informative/Explanatory, and Narrative Writing.