The goal of the Expository Reading and Writing Course (ERWC) is to prepare college‐ bound seniors for the literacy demands of higher education. Students in this year‐long, rhetoric‐based course develop advanced proficiency in expository, analytical, and argumentative reading and writing. This course includes multiple reading selections on a topic, often representing different genres. Course texts include classic and contemporary works – both fiction and non-fiction – of varying lengths from a variety of sources and genres. This course not only satisfies the 4th year high school "a‐g" English requirement, but also will address critical areas of the CSU English Placement Test.

 

English 11 is an integrated curriculum of reading, writing, listening, speaking, and standard English language skills based on the California ELA Common Core State Standards and the California ELA / ELD Framework. Students will continue to apply and build upon the knowledge and skills acquired in the tenth grade.

Enrollment in this course is limited to long-term English Learners (students who have been enrolled in U.S. schools for six or more years) who are performing at/below grade-level expectations on standardized tests and who have ELPAC performance levels of 1 (Minimally Developed), 2 (Somewhat Developed) or 3 (Moderately Developed). Concurrent enrollment in the student’s grade-level English Language Arts course is required. The Academic ELD course will provide English Learners (ELs) with a safe learning environment that builds language and reading skills along with content knowledge. This course is specifically designed to build and improve literacy skills. Students will be immersed into different literary genres which will increase their academic vocabulary. Students will not only learn academic and language skills but they will become culturally competent/responsive skillful scholars effective communicators and competitive in a Global Community.