They are given first-hand information concerning education needed, required skills, benefits, disadvantages, and potential salary for various careers. A major part of the program is an introduction to literary classics. English 10 - The tenth grade course places emphasis on basic paragraph and brief essay writing, grammar, and vocabulary. Classical literary works are assigned as outside reading. English 11 - The central focus of this course is American Literature.
Students read and discuss literature from colonial times to the present.
Composition instruction and practice center on narrative, descriptive, expository, and persuasive modes. In addition to the textbook there is assigned outside reading of literary classics. Instruction and practice in composition focuses mainly, but not absolutely, on expository and narrative modes. There is special emphasis on preparing for college writing. Journalism - This class produces the school paper.