English curriculum is Journeys.
The students will take journeys back over the last summer with Siddhartha. Next they will journey into speech communication through an Expression unit before moving into an Order unit through the study of the Odyssey by Homer. They will end the first semester journey with the Knowledge unit and the study of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. During the second semester, students will journey into Leadership with the study of Lord of the Flies, Equality in Taming of the Shrew, and Imagination with Frankenstein. Over the course of the year students will do projects, papers, speeches, outside reading, group work, independent grammatical study, as well as vocabulary and grammar in the context of the books and papers.