English II Students continue to increase and refine their communication skills. Students plan, draft, and complete written compositions on a regular basis, including narrative, argumentative, and personal kinds of writing. An major emphasis is placed on business forms of writing such as the report, the business memo, the narrative of a procedure, the summary or abstract and the resume. Students read extensively in multiples genres from American literature and other world literature. Students learn literary forms and terms associated with selections being read.
Students interpret the possible influences of a historical context on a literary work.
The course description is the same as English III, but this course is specifically designed for immigrant students with limited English proficiency. An Advanced Placement course in English Language and Composition engages students in becoming skilled readers of prose written in a variety of periods, disciplines, and rhetorical contexts. Students become skilled writers who compose for a variety of purposes. This college composition course allows students to write in a variety of forms. As in the college course, students should have an understanding and demonstrated knowledge of standard English and be able to produce final, error-free drafts.