(Updated 24-Oct-2008)
Forty units of English in grades nine through twelve are currently required for high school graduation. Students are encouraged to take a variety of English courses in the areas of writing, speaking, reading, or literature, as well as composition.
English 9P CSU/UC (2 semesters)
This college prep course will address the California State Standards to improve reading, writing, conventions, listening and speaking levels in preparation for College Prep Level 10. Students will read at independent levels and critically analyze texts across all genres. English 9P students will demonstrate their ability to write business letters, to conduct interviews, and to apply the formal writing process in narration, exposition, description, and persuasion essays. Each quarter students will demonstrate an awareness of listening and speaking skills through oral responses to texts, media, paired reading responses and shared inquiry and through oral delivery of speeches with targeted skills from models and guided instruction. Benchmark assessments will determine further interventions, review, or introduction of new skills and strategies.
English 9HP CSU/UC (2 semesters)
This course is an honors level survey course that covers the same required materials as Freshman English P, on critical thinking and analytical writing. The writing assignments will be more complex and the literary analysis in greater depth in keeping with the new State standards. Students will focus on SAT vocabulary, EPT practice, and related skills to prepare for institutions of higher learning.
English 10P CSU/UC (2 semesters)
This college prep course will address the California State Standards to improve reading, writing, conventions, listening and speaking levels in preparation for College Prep Level 11. Students will read at independent levels and critically analyze texts across all genres. English 10P students will demonstrate mastery in their abilities to write business letters and to apply the formal writing process in narration, exposition, description, and persuasion essays. Each quarter students will demonstrate an awareness of listening and speaking skills through oral responses to texts, media, paired reading responses and shared inquiry and through oral delivery of speeches with targeted skills from models and guided instruction. In English 10P, students will reach mastery with counter arguments in persuasive speeches. Benchmark assessments will determine further interventions, review, or introduction of new skills and strategies.
English 10HP CSU/UC (2 semesters)
This is a college preparatory course for students who excel in English. This course covers all the required material and involves reading beyond the major works of literature, as well as extensive writing of analytical and research papers. Students will begin preparation for the Advanced Placement Exam in literature to be taken in their junior or senior year.
American Literature P: Grade 11 (2 semesters) CSU/UC
Students analyze recognized works of American literature representing a variety of genres and traditions. Through their study of the trends, themes, and issues expressed in American literature, students gain an understanding of the changing cultural currents of American people. Students refine their reading, writing, higher order thinking, listening, and speaking skills. This course emphasizes vocabulary building, and developing application of critical thinking skills, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation, as detailed in English-Language Arts Content Standards.
English Language/Composition AP: Grades 11-12 (2 semesters) CSU/UC
Advanced Placement English Language is a college-level course, through which students train to become skilled, active readers of prose written in a variety of periods, disciplines and rhetorical contexts. This course will help students become aware of the interaction between authorial intent, audience needs, the topic itself, writing conventions, and the features of language: syntax, diction, and tone. Advanced Placement courses are designed to provide students with high academic abilities with more rigorous, challenging learning opportunities. Through this course students will scrutinize the linguistic and rhetorical devices employed by various authors and come to a greater understanding of literature, the world, and themselves. Students are expected to take the Advanced Placement Examination in May that will enable them to receive a college credit with a score of 3 or higher.
English Literature Composition AP: Grade 11-12 (2 semesters) CSU/UC
This college level course is recommended for students who have demonstrated high levels of competence in reading, analysis, and writing. The content of the course provides preparation for the Advanced Placement Exam in English Literature. A score of "3" or higher on this exam will provide English credit in many colleges and universities. Students explore historical influences, universal themes, and literary techniques in the context of British and world literature from a variety of periods and genres. Students practice rhetorical analysis in formal informal, and timed writing situations. Their ongoing, rigorous analysis affords them a clear understanding of rhetorical, stylistic, and literary conventions in poetry, drama, nonfiction essays, and works of fiction.
Expository Reading and Writing Course: Grade 12 (2 semesters) CSU/UC
The goal of the Expository Reading and Writing Course is to prepare college-bound seniors for the literacy demands of higher education. Through a sequence of fourteen rigorous instructional modules, students in this yearlong, rhetoric-based course develop advanced proficiencies in expository, analytical, and argumentative reading and writing. The cornerstone of the course-the assignment template-presents a process for helping students read, comprehend, and respond to non-fiction and literary texts. Modules also provide instructions in research methods and documentation conventions. Student will be expected to increase their awareness of the rhetorical strategies employed by authors, and to apply those strategies in their own writing. They will read closely to examine the relationship between an author’s argument or theme and his or her audience and purpose, to analyze the impact of structural and rhetorical strategies, and to exam the social, political, and philosophical assumptions that underlie the text. By the end of the course, students will be expected to use this process independently when reading unfamiliar texts and writing in repose to them. Course texts include contemporary essays, newspaper and magazine articles, editorials, reports, biographies, memos, assorted public documents, and other non-fiction texts. The course materials also include modules on two full-length works (one novel and one work of non-fiction). Written assessments and holistic scoring guides conclude each unit.
Journalism: Grades 9-12 (1 semester) (V)
This is a basic course for students interested in newspaper writing and publishing. This course may count as vocational education. Students will write stories in the four areas of a newspaper. They will also learn page layout, desktop publishing, photography, and to edit. This course is recommended for students who plan to participate on the school newspaper or yearbook staff.
Media Studies: Grades 9-12 (2 semesters) [rc] (V)
Prerequisite - students must be appointed to the Eagle's Eye staff to qualify for this class. This course is for students wishing to be part of the newspaper staff at Eisenhower High School. Students spend most of their time fulfilling journalism staff duties. One day a week is set aside for review and advanced study of journalism theory. Students are expected to acquire the ability to fulfill the responsibility of a newspaper staff position, knowledge of the duties of all staff positions, an understanding of the teamwork necessary to successful production, and the ability to write high quality news stories of all types.
Language! IH Grade 9 - 12 (2 semesters)
This non-college preparatory course is designed for the student reading and writing well below grade level, in preparation for successful completion of required English classes. Students will receive intense instruction in phonemic awareness, phoneme-grapheme correspondence, decoding, encoding, accuracy and fluency in passage reading, vocabulary, comprehension, wide supplementary reading, introduction to form and function in grammar, and abundant writing and editing. Students learn to spell the English language systematically. Literature is read throughout Language1: however, it is not studied as a subject until students have mastered fundamental literacy skills. Students may receive English or elective credit for graduation. Students enrolled in this class will be identified through a prescreening process and will be assessed throughout the year. Students who meet course goals will advance to Language II.
Language! IIH Grade 9 - 12 (2 semesters)
Language II, a non-college preparatory course, builds on the skills taught in Language I's grammar and composition strands through narrative and expository writing and continues to prepare under performing students for successful completion of required English courses. Among various other requirements, expository writing emphasizes reading and paraphrasing science and social studies text for report writing. Level II introduces three new strands: 1) syllabication, 2) morphology (Latin roots: prefixes and suffixes), 3) Masterpiece Sentences (mastery of syntax for composition, reading comprehension, and listening comprehension).
SDC Language! IH Grade 9 - 12 (2 semesters)
This course uses LANGUAGE!, a sequential, balanced literacy program emphasizing developmental reading instruction. Its emphasis is on building the foundations of phonemic awareness, vocabulary development, comprehension, test reading, and work recognition, while reading texts with readability levels of 2.6 to 4.5. This course offers the flexibility of placement into an alternate LANGUAGE! course at the quarter or semester, based upon individual achievement of the student. Students who qualify in units 1-18 will begin the course of study at Unit 1. Initially, SDC students may be placed into LANGUAGE! Book A or Book C based on appropriate placement assessments.
SDC Language! IIH Grade 9 - 12 (2 semesters)
This course uses LANGUAGE!, a sequential, balanced literacy program emphasizing developmental reading instruction. Its emphasis is on building the foundations of phonemic awareness, vocabulary development, comprehension, test reading and work recognition, while reading texts with readability levels of 2.6 to 4.5. This course offers the flexibility of placement into an alternate LANGUAGE! course at the quarter or semester, based upon individual achievement of the student. Students who qualify in units 19-36 will begin the course of study at Unit 19. Initially, high school SDC students may be placed into LANGUAGE! Book A or Book C based on appropriate placement assessments.
ELD I: Listening/Speaking Grades 9-12 (2 semesters)
ELD I Listening/Speaking is an intensive course of communicative and academic English instruction focusing on the skills of listening and speaking. The content and the pacing reflect that it must be taken concurrently with ELD I Reading/Writing. The course is designed for students identified as English Learners (EL’s) at the Beginning levels of listening, speaking, reading and writing in English. Students may have varying levels of academic proficiency in their primary languages. The course goals and objectives are based on the CA ELS Standards grades 9-12, Beginning Level. Student will receive English credit. Materials for this course include: High Point Basics and Grammar in Action.
ELD I: Reading/Writing Grades 9-12 (2 semesters)
ELD I Reading/Writing is an intensive course of communicative and academic English instruction focusing on the skills of reading and writing. The content and the pacing reflect that it must be taken concurrently with ELD I Listening/Speaking. The course is designed for students identified as English Learners at the Beginning levels of reading and writing in English. Students may have varying levels of academic proficiency in their primary languages. The course goals and objectives are based on the CA ELD Standards grades 9-12, Beginning Level. Student will receive English credit. Materials for this course include: High Point Basics, Grammar in Action and Step Up to Writing.
ELD II: Listening/Speaking and ELD II Reading/Writing Grades 9-12 (2 semesters)
These courses are taken concurrently. This course is for students who have strong Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills (BICS) but have continued in the EL program for many years due to a lack of English reading and writing proficiency. With intensive and focused instruction, the objective is to ready students for core English course work the following year. Ten (10) units of English/Language Arts can be earned for each course.
ELD III: Transition 9-12 (2 semesters)
ELD III Transition is an intensive course of communicative and academic English instruction focusing on the skills of reading and writing. The content and the pacing reflect that it must be taken concurrently with a grade level English Language Arts course (PC Eng). The course is designed for students identified as English Learners (EL’s) who are transitioning from the English Language Development program to the English Language Arts Program. Target students are those that need support to be successful in a grade level English Language Arts course. The course goals and objective are based on the CA ELD Standards grades 9-12, Intermediate and Early Advanced Levels. Student will receive elective credits. Materials used for this course include: High Point Level B and/or C depending on diagnostic assessment, grade level literature selections to support grade level English Language Arts course, Grammar in Action and Step Up to Writing.
English P(180)
English P (180) is a course that blends a rigorous English Language Arts Curriculum and support for struggling readers. This University of California A-G approved will fulfill the B requirement. With the integration of Scholastic’s Read 180 Enterprise Edition and a college prep curriculum, it presents a unique opportunity for at risk student to develop strong literacy skills, yet remain on tract for university admittance.
Diploma English
This one semester non-college preparatory course is aligned to the California High School Exit Exam requirements. Students enrolled in this course will receive preparation by their areas of need based on the following strands: Reading, Writing: Written and Oral Language Conventions: Listening and Speaking
NOTE: ALL STUDENTS, regardless of English credits completed, must be enrolled in an English class for the entire year.
The administration supports these policies; however, because of some extenuating circumstances, the administration reserves the right to make any changes that may override the policy.
These are San Bernardino Valley Community College classes which can be taken by Eisenhower College Academy students in place of an Eisenhower English class while attending San Bernardino Valley Community College.
ENGL 914 Basic Writing 3 units
Prerequisite: Read 950 or eligibility for READ 015 as determined by SBVC assessment
process OR ESL 941.
Lecture: 3 hours per week
A basic skills writing course for students who are not eligible for ENGL 015.
Focus is on effective sentences and paragraphs including an extensive review
of grammar, punctuation, and usage.
Not applicable to the Associate Degree
ENGL 015 Preparation For College Writing 4 units
Prerequisite: ENGL 914 or eligibility for ENGL 015 as determined by SBVC assessment
process.
Lecture: 4 hours per week.
A writing course designed to prepare students for ENGL 101. Primary focus
on the development of the paragraph and short essay. Includes a review of grammar,
sentence structure, and punctuation.
Associate Degree Applicable
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