Calhoun School US Program Courses. Students must take at least 3 mods of English every year for a total of 1. At a minimum, all students must complete English 9 Language and Literature, English 1. Literary Forms, English 1. American Literature, and 3 mods of English electives in their senior year. ENGLISH COURSESENGLISH 9. English 9 is intended to introduce students to the expectations of high school English. The study of vocabulary, punctuation and grammatical usage, and writing skills will progress systematically across the four mods. In literature, each mod will constitute a unit and focus on a different text. Texts may include the following Julius Caesar, Fahrenheit 4. My Antonia, A Lesson Before Dying, Lord of the Flies and The Joy Luck Club. There will also be a focus on the short story and lyric poetry. ENGLISH 1. AIts possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those thingsa chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a womans earringwith immense, even startling power Raymond Carver. Carver, the editor of the contemporary short story collection we will study, emphasizes the power of precise language to move and invigorate the reader. In this course, we will read and write with this goal in mind reading with attention to specific language, and writing as a process of focusing on a clearly defined topic and selecting and ordering simple, carefully chosen words in compelling ways.
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