Nixa High School Course Description Book 2024-2025 (3) - Flipbook - Page 25
Pre-AP ENGLISH II - 523PA
1 Year = 1 Credit
Grade Level: 10
Pre-AP English II provides a more challenging curriculum for academically advanced
students who are self directed and reflective learners. Students will study literature,
informational texts, vocabulary, composition, grammar, and research. Reading and writing
units focus on critical thinking and literary analysis in addition to reading comprehension,
literary techniques, and literary elements. Students will improve their composition and
research skills with a focus on critical thinking, mechanics, writing style, and
documentation (MLA format). Students will take the EOC exam. NCAA Approved Course
ENGLISH III - 527
1 Year = 1 Credit
PR
1 Year = 1 Credit
PR DC AP
Grade Level: 11
English III builds on the skills addressed in English II. Students will study a variety of
genres in American literature (informational texts, short stories, poetry, drama, and
novels) and relate them to historical and social contexts. Students will improve their
writing and critical-thinking skills through the study of persuasion, analysis, and research.
Students will also review skills needed for the ACT. English III (or AP English Language
and Composition) is required for graduation. NCAA Approved Course
Prerequisites: Successful completion of English II
AP/DC ENGLISH LANGUAGE
& COMPOSITION - 541
Grade Level: 11
Optional College Est Fee: $210
Optional AP Exam Est Fee: $94
This one-year course is designed with an emphasis on meeting the requirements of the
College Board AP English Language and Composition examination. This college-level
curriculum engages students in becoming skilled readers of prose written in a variety of
rhetorical contexts and in becoming skilled writers who compose for a variety of
purposes. Both their writing and their reading should make students aware of the
interactions among a writer's purposes, audience expectations, and subjects, as well as
the way genre conventions and the resources of language contribute to the effectiveness
of writing. Students in this course will study a variety of fiction and nonfiction texts
written by American authors in order to improve their skills in close reading, analysis,
argumentation, and synthesis. NCAA Approved Course
Prerequisite: Honors English II Recommended
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Advanced Placement
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