Language Arts 10A:

Fiction and Research

This course introduces students to novel-based research. Students will read and reflect on a novel of topical importance. Students will then develop and follow a research plan thematically linked to the issues and themes of the novel.

Women’s Literature and Issues

This course uses Sue Monk Kidd’s "The Secret Life of Bees" as a platform for researching and discussing women’s issues. After reading and responding to the novel in whole, students will then develop and follow a research plan thematically linked to the issues and themes of the novel.

Creative Writing

In this course, students will demonstrate understanding of the elements, techniques, and processes of creative writing and how works of creative writing are structured; and, in creative writing, the student shall create or perform, or both, an original creative writing presentation including a single complex work or multiple works.

World Literature

This course surveys modern literature selections from North and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Pacific authors. Focus and time to be spent on seeing cross-cultural connections, particularly when many students see the world through "American" glasses.

Research Writing

This course is novel-based research. Students will read and reflect on a novel of topical importance. Students will then develop and follow a research plan thematically linked to the issues and themes of the novel.

Speech Communications

This course is for the learner interested in learning how to plan, deliver and evaluate speeches. This course also examines basic communication strategies, situations and dynamics. Influential and important historical speeches will also be studied.

Romance Literature and Film

This course explores the literary genre of romance via poetry, short story, and film.

Women’s Literature and Issues

This course uses Sue Monk Kidd’s "The Secret Life of Bees" as a platform for researching and discussing women’s issues. After reading and responding to the novel in whole, students will then develop and follow a research plan thematically linked to the issues and themes of the novel.

Creative Writing

In this course, students will demonstrate understanding of the elements, techniques, and processes of creative writing and how works of creative writing are structured; and, in creative writing, the student shall create or perform, or both, an original creative writing presentation including a single complex work or multiple works.

World Literature

This course surveys modern literature selections from North and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Pacific authors. Focus and time to be spent on seeing cross-cultural connections, particularly when many students see the world through "American" glasses.

Research Writing

This course explores the world of J.R.R. Tolkien. Biographical research and exploration begin the course and The Lord of the Rings rounds out the project-based class.

Speech Communications

This course is for the learner interested in learning how to plan, deliver and evaluate speeches. This course also examines basic communication strategies, situations and dynamics. Influential and important historical speeches will also be studied.

Fantasy Literature

and Film

This course explores the world of J.R.R. Tolkien. Biographical research and exploration begin the course and The Lord of the Rings rounds out the project-based class.