EN1011    English 9 Pre-Diploma/Survey                            1.0
Prerequisite:  None
This entry-level course is basic to success and is designed to prepare students for participation in accelerated literature courses at King.  Students will acquire competency in language, listening, literature, speaking, and writing.  Instruction in writing definitions, the five-paragraph theme, essay tests, paraphrasing, summaries, and impromptu themes prepares students for King’s writing program.  Short stories and novels, a Shakespearean play, poetry, and non-fiction refine student reading skills.

EN1013    English 9  Pre-Diploma/American Authors                    1.0
Prerequisite:  Placement by Guidance Counselor
This accelerated entry level course is designed for students coming to King with a strong background in English and is especially important for students planning to take IB courses.  Students will study American literature (for more information, see American Authors).  Structure of the English language and standard usage are emphasized in the grammar program.  Composition studies include not only preparation for proficiency essays and business letters, but also development of writing style and a variety of types of writing.

EN6711    Thinking and Writing About Literature                        1.0
Prerequisite:  Sophomore required course if not in Pre-IB English
Teachers will use a laboratory approach to refine student word choice, sentence variety and paragraph development in achieving the polished theme.  The process of drafting and redrafting helps students to define, compare, contrast, and classify ideas for writing that communicates both content and style.  Students will also study a variety of literary genres in order to learn how to read literature skillfully and how to express their ideas about literature in written compositions.  Emphasis will be placed on basic literary concepts so that students will be prepared for more advanced literature courses.

EN2011    American Authors                                    1.0
Prerequisite:  Junior Standing (Required for Graduation) Not open to students who have taken EN1013
Using a historical approach as one option to American Literature, students trace American Roots, the Romantic Movement, Realism, and Social Criticism, the Naturalist Movement, and contemporary trends in American Literature from colonization to the present.  By teacher choice, a second approach is to analyze four hundred years of American literature thematically, exploring the American Dream, Sin and Alienation, Reality and Illusion, a Sense of Place, and a Sense of Values.  Extensive practice in composition is also a major feature of the course. 


EN2213 British Authors Pre-IB 1.00 Units
Prerequisite: Consent of Instructor

This course is designed for those students whose academic needs justify an accelerated and more in-depth program of study, and therefore, is especially recommended for students who intend to take the IB English courses in their junior and senior years.  The student in an honors section should have strong background in grammar and composition and a commitment to work on individual research, extensive readings, and a more demanding homework load than is expected in regular level classes.  Extensive work in composition is required as part of the student’s preparation for IB classes and college level work.  Sophomores planning to take IB English should take British Authors (Pre-Diploma) and should have taken English 9 (Pre-Diploma).

EN8011    African Literature                                    1.0
Prerequisite:  Grade 11 or 12
This course is a study of the oral and written literature of Saharan and Sub-Saharan Africa with particular emphasis on Morocco, Nigeria, Egypt, Sudan, and South Africa.  Students will learn to analyze literature critically and draw connections between different eras and cultures.

EN3911     Advanced Composition                                0.5
EN2911     Literature of the World                                0.5
Prerequisite:  Junior standing (Completion of Thinking and Writing about Literature required or Consent of Instructor).
This elective offers additional instruction and practice in expository prose.  Fundamentals of style, the report, social criticism, argumentation and persuasion, the informal essay, literary criticism, the review, and research are writing experiences that prepare students for the most challenging of communication assignments.  Literature of the World reinforces King’s focus on global education.  It acquaints readers with translation as interpretation, the universality of character types (scapegoat, hypocrite, impostor), recurring symbols such as time, colors, and animals, and variations on the theme like loneliness or illusion.

EN4111     Creative Writing                                    0.5
EN4411     Communications Media                                0.5
Prerequisite:  Senior Standing
Semester 1:  Creative Writing offers experiences in imaginative writing such as mood pieces, sense impressions, descriptions of people and places, and narratives.  Students experience the writing of short stories, plays, and poetry.
Semester 2:  Newspapers, radio, television and motion pictures are primary resources for experiencing our world.  Communications Media investigates the practices that enable these media to tell us what we need to know and practices that could block our access to the truth.

EN611B    IB English 1                                        1.0
EN631B    IB English 2                                        1.0
Prerequisite:  IB English I is the Prerequisite for IB English II.  Junior standing.  Consent of instructor.  English 9 (Pre Diploma) (or American Authors) and British Authors (Pre Diploma strongly recommended.
All IB full-diploma candidates are required to take IB English I and II
The IB English courses stress literary study and include many written and oral activities designed to expressing their ideas, and supporting them.  Four components comprise the IB curriculum: World Literature in translation, texts studied in detail, school based work which focuses on “The Search for Identity,” and study of literature in context.  At present the course is offered at the Higher Level only.  Students in IB 2 are expected to take the Higher Level exam.

EN8211    Journalism/School Newspaper                            1.0
Prerequisite: Grades 10, 11, 12 and Consent of Instructor
This class will offer students hands-on opportunity to help publish the school newspaper, The King's Page. As part of a staff that meets daily, students will learn all facets of newspaper production such as gathering information, writing, editing news and feature stories, learning about photography and cartoon work, soliciting advertisements, and word processing and computer page design.  Students will earn English credit towards graduation and may accrue more than 1 unit as they continue to work beyond their first year in the class.  PLEASE NOTE:  These courses do not count as the four required English courses. This course is a college-prep elective.