Current Courses
Honors English 9
Recommended Prerequisite(s): Honors English 8 and i-Ready Score of 640 or higher
This is a course in English language and composition providing a survey of fiction and nonfiction texts from authors and media around the world with an emphasis on critical thinking and
problem solving for the 21st century gifted learner. The course texts and assignments are meant
to aid students in viewing the world from a variety of different perspectives and to allow students
to see literature as a response to historical and social contexts. Further, there is significant
consideration placed on the needs, skills, and effective habits of students as they transition into
high school.
Recommended Prerequisite(s): Honors English 8 and i-Ready Score of 640 or higher
This is a course in English language and composition providing a survey of fiction and nonfiction texts from authors and media around the world with an emphasis on critical thinking and
problem solving for the 21st century gifted learner. The course texts and assignments are meant
to aid students in viewing the world from a variety of different perspectives and to allow students
to see literature as a response to historical and social contexts. Further, there is significant
consideration placed on the needs, skills, and effective habits of students as they transition into
high school.
Honors Writing Seminar A/B
Recommended Prerequisite(s): Currently enrolled in 12th grade
The major purpose of this semester course is to focus on the development and writing of
different genres for multiple purposes: writing by analyzing the characteristics of sub-genres that
are used in poetry, prose, plays, novels, short stories, essays, and other genres to write their own.
They will analyze the ways in which the themes of various works represent a view or comment
on life, the ways in which irony, tone, mood, style, the “sound” of language achieve rhetorical or
aesthetic purposes, and the philosophical arguments presented to determine whether the authors’ positions have contributed to the work and credibility of characters.
Recommended Prerequisite(s): Currently enrolled in 12th grade
The major purpose of this semester course is to focus on the development and writing of
different genres for multiple purposes: writing by analyzing the characteristics of sub-genres that
are used in poetry, prose, plays, novels, short stories, essays, and other genres to write their own.
They will analyze the ways in which the themes of various works represent a view or comment
on life, the ways in which irony, tone, mood, style, the “sound” of language achieve rhetorical or
aesthetic purposes, and the philosophical arguments presented to determine whether the authors’ positions have contributed to the work and credibility of characters.