Our Changing World
This course traces our experiences across decades. How does the past affect the future? What effect does the past have on progress? Is the price paid for progress worth the cost? Has technology taken over our lives? Students will study texts from Old School to New School to Next School to New Age. The novels surveyed in this course will answer all of the questions we ask ourselves in our changing world.
In English II, students will engage in grade level Common Core State Standards (CCSS) aligned reading and writing practices, through a wide range of literary and informational texts that will build upon English I. Students will engage in practices to support their mastery of the CCSS for Writing in their grade band, and express themselves in multiple writing formats including narratives, investigative reports, literary analyses, and research papers. Across all writing formats, students will write in the conventions of the CCSS writing modes. Students in English II will employ academic English in discussion that align to CCSS for Speaking & Listening.