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Course Description: Students will use literature to explore important societal topics and make personal connections through frequent journal writing.
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Course Description: This course covers American Literature from prehistory to after the Civil War and the Romantic Period. The course uses two components of literacy - reading and writing - to help build an understanding of the time periods covered, the people involved and the policies in place during these time periods.
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Course Description: In addition to presenting a thorough review of general writing skills, this course surveys selections from the Anglo-Saxon, medieval, and Elizabethan periods and also from the 17th and 18th centuries.
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Course Description: Literature sections in each lesson introduce and discuss several literary genres including poetry, the short story and its sub-genres, and Shakespearean drama in Romeo and Juliet. These courses emphasize writing. Students will also examine the elements of English grammar.
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Course Description: This course is an exploration of proven masters in major genres: epic poetry, short story, drama, novel. Major themes: love of self, of others, and of principle.
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| African-American Literature |
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Course Description: This course is a survey of the black experience in the United States, beginning in the antebellum period and ending with contemporary drama.
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Course Description: This course covers a variety of American literature from a diverse selection of American orators and writers.
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| AP English Lit & Comp 1 & 2 |
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Course Description: The student is asked to read, understand, and analyze complex styles of writing from a variety of authors by exploring the richness of language including syntax, imitation, word choice, and tone. Beginning with exploration, planning, and writing, and continuing through editing, rewriting, polishing, and applying what has been learned to a breadth of academic, personal, and professional contexts, the student learns about his or her own composition style and process.
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Course Description: This course presents the basics of expository writing. Students learn step-by-step to write unified, coherent papers. While learning to write, students learn to think in an organized, systematic fashion.
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Course Description: Students learn the terminology and structure of the English language in an easy-to-understand, step-by-step fashion. Parts of speech, sentence structure, choice and use of words, capitalization and punctuation are covered.
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Course Description: Introduction to the King James Version of the Bible as a great classic of English literature.
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Course Description: Reading is a vital part of a child's development. It is an essential skill to learn, with the hopes of carrying an enjoyment of reading into adulthood.
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Course Description: Using a chronological approach from Anglo-Saxon to modern times, this challenging course explores not only a rich variety of British literature but also the historical and cultural changes that influenced the writers.
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| Character Education: Exploring Values 1-3 |
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Course Description: A literary study of basic values. Examines the consequences of having or lacking courage, self-discipline, respect, honesty, work, trust, and compassion.
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Course Description: The novels that are selected for this course represent a variety of genres, but they all reflect a common theme-"breaking through boundaries" (including sociological, scientific, moral, and ethical boundaries). In addition to the novels listed, the students are going to read another online classic novel that the instructor approves.
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Course Description: The writing assignments train the student to use techniques to make prose writing more vivid, descriptive, and organized. Art works and short literature selections provide models for writing.
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Course Description: This course deals with the skills necessary to think and write critically.
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Course Description: This course concentrates on basic skills involving recognition and use of verbs, nouns, adjectives, and adverbs; spelling; punctuation; vocabulary; and construction of simple, compound, and complex sentences.
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Course Description: This course helps students become more effective readers by emphasizing strategies that will help improve basic language and literacy skills.
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| Effective Speech Communication |
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Course Description: This introduction to public speaking will help students become aware of such kinds of public speaking as informative and persuasive speaking, and realize that public speaking involves both formal speeches to an audience and informal discussions with smaller groups of people.
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| English for Life & Work:Career Prep |
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Course Description: This course uses literary selections to discover who you are, what skills you need, and how to be successful in life and in the workplace.
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| English Grammar and Usage |
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Course Description: This course is designed for students who want to learn the finer points of grammar: parts of speech, clauses and phrases, usage, punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and vocabulary.
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| English Literature Through Shakespeare |
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Course Description: This is a challenging junior- or senior-level course that follows the development of English literature from its earliest known epic, Beowulf, through The Canterbury Tales to Shakespeares tragedy, Macbeth.
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| Her Stories: Women's Voices in American Literature |
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Course Description: This course is a survey of women's experiences in the United States from colonial to modern times. Students will examine women's relationships, conflicts, and contributions from a variety of cultural perspectives.
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| Improving Reading and Study Skills |
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Course Description: This course is designed to help students effectively identify and improve their reading and study habits.
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Course Description: This course challenges students with an in-depth study of grammar. Students review parts of speech and usage, sentence patterns, basic punctuation and capitalization.
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Course Description: The central objective of this course is to give students a chance to write. Writing is an essential skill to learn, one that will carry on into adulthood.
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Course Description: This course discusses the fundamentals of modern journalism: reporting, interviewing, writing techniques, censorship issues, page design, and broadcast journalism.
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| King Arthur and the Middle Ages |
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Course Description: This course traces the early Celtic tales through the French variations and fourteenth and fifteenth century English interpretations. It examines Arthur as both a historical and legendary figure.
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Course Description: As an introduction to literature, this course teaches students how to recall and understand what they have read. It helps them understand imagery, figurative language, and symbolism and will help students strengthen their vocabularies.
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Course Description: This course surveys the history and possible future of mass media, including newspapers, magazines, television, radio, film, advertising, the recording industry, and the Internet.
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Course Description: This course will examine literary contributions from many cultural groups.
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Course Description: This course discusses the genre of mystery fiction, with emphasis on the detective story. The plots and characters of several stories and one short novel are examined.
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Course Description: This course provides a survey of the traditional Greek and Roman myths as well as the myths of other cultures, primarily Native American and African.
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Course Description: This course introduces students to various forms of news reporting and writing skills from the traditional, inverted-pyramid style to writing for online publications.
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Course Description: Poetry is designed to introduce the student to the structure and techniques associated with poetry.
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| Practical English: Review of Fundamentals |
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Course Description: This course gives an overview of basic English skills emphasizing effective usage of the English language, the eight parts of speech, and commonly misused words.
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Course Description: An introduction to the speech communication process; planning and preparing a speech; using the body and voice to communicate; wording, arranging, and outlining. Beginning and ending a speech effectively.
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Course Description: This course is a literary journey around the world. Read about the adventures of Harry Potter, Gandhi's words of wisdom, Chilean folk tales, and much more while learning about important pre-, during, and after-reading techniques.
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Course Description: This course will identify important strategies to assist you in understanding and remembering what you have read. It will help you improve your reading speed and comprehension through carefully designed exercises.
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| Readings in the American Novel |
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Course Description: This course traces the development of the American novel by examining five well-known works.
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| Research: Process & Presentation |
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Course Description: Because the search for information is a lifelong activity that cuts across many disciplines, the primary emphasis in this course is on the variety of techniques that can be used to find information.
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Course Description: This course defines science fiction as a literary genre, identifying and exploring common themes and motifs in science fiction stories and novels.
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| Search for Identity Through Literature |
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Course Description: This course examines two aspects of the individual's search for identity. It explores relationships people have with their peers, and it probes struggles they have with their conscience and with the obstacles that prevent them from realizing their full potential.
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Course Description: This course is a survey of short fiction containing a sampling of short stories from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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| Speak Your Mind: A Guide to Clear Thinking and Communication |
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Course Description: This course teaches clear thinking and communication skills by highlighting the importance of recognizing faulty arguments, propaganda, stereotypes, and doublespeak.
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Course Description: Skills for effectively increasing speed, at the same time increasing comprehension.
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Course Description: This course is a basic spelling course. Patterns for spelling most words; how to master words that don't follow patterns; using meaning to choose between commonly confused, similar words.
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Course Description: Students will read and analyze fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that focuses on sports. They will investigate themes such as sports as metaphor for the human character and what sports reveal about our culture's values and prejudices.
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Course Description: Students learn to write to convey information clearly, concisely, and accurately; experience comprehensive editing and copyediting; write instructions and memos. Students work on improve their writing style.
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Course Type: Online
Course Description: This course is a comprehensive guide to writing, concentrating on the "6 + 1 Traits" of writing.
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| Writing for the Real World |
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Course Description: This course focuses on business writing (e-mail, business letters, job applications, and résumés) and persuasive writing (advertising, movie reviews, and opinion essays).
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