English 12AP
College Board Course Description
English 12AP Curriculum Card

English 10 Standards of Learning

English 10A
English 10A Curriculum Card
From the Henrico County Planning Guide:

• Pretest to determine scope and sequence of reading, grammar, and writing ability
• Evaluate one's own role in small group learning activities
• Refine critical listening and thinking skills
• Participate in Socratic seminars
• Read and analyze independent reading
• Read and analyze a variety of commonly studied literary works
• Examine and compare literary selections from several critical viewpoints
• Interpret consumer materials
• Extend knowledge of vocabulary
• Demonstrate mastery of persuasive, literary, expository, and informational writing
• Refine rules of mechanics, grammar, and usage when writing
• Develop an independent research project
• Apply knowledge of technology when reading and writing to learn

Studied Works: Le Morte d'Arthur, Night, A Separate Peace, The Pearl, The Old Man and the Sea, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Antigone, Julius Caesar, The Secret Life of Bees, The Awakening, A Doll's House, The Turn of the Screw, poetry, short stories, summer reading (changes yearly)

English 10S
English 10 Curriculum Card
From the Henrico County Planning Guide:

• Participate and communicate in group activities
• Interpret, analyze, and evaluate literary works from a variety of cultures
• Read and analyze printed consumer information
• Demonstrate mastery of persuasive, literary, expository, and informational writing
• Edit when writing for correct grammar, spelling, sentence structure, and paragraphing
• Increase knowledge and application of vocabulary
• Apply knowledge of technology when reading and writing to learn
• Develop a research paper

Studied Works: Night, The Pearl, Julius Caesar, The Secret Life of Bees, poetry, short stories

Journalism
Journalism I Curriculum Card
Journalism II Curriculum Card
Advanced Journalism Curriculum Card
From the Henrico County Planning Guide:

• Focus on writing skills and print media in the twentieth century
• Write news stories, features, sports stories, and editorials for publication
• Develop skills in newspaper style, news, features, sports, editorials, captions, radio/TV script writing, and editing/proof symbols
• Develop production/graphics skills in design, paste-up, advertising, circulation, photo cropping and sizing, and design elements
• Explore legal restraints on free speech that affect high school publications as well as metropolitan dailies
• Develop a newspaper vocabulary
• Work on publishing the school newspaper