This guidebook is designed to be both a resource book and a tentative curriculum outline. The language arts program described for grades 7 through 10 attempts to provide students with a basic background from which they can draw information and skills as needed for their successful work in the English electives offered in grades 11 and 12. The…

This document contains course descriptions of 37 elective English courses divided into five levels for sophomore, junior, and senior high school students--the higher levels having more difficult reading and more demanding work, and requiring better writing skills and more independent study habits. An explanation of the composition, grammar,…

An English curriculum for grades 9-12 is outlined in this booklet. General objectives in oral and written communication skills as well as in reading and literature are described for the 9th grade program. A concentrated program of study in language and logic for written and oral communication is outlined for 10th grade students. The multiphased…

The elective English courses for high school students contained in this curriculum guide include a variety of subject matter and activities, thus allowing for different learning capabilities, cultural influences, and interests while focusing on the interrelated study of language, literature, and composition. Each of the 19 courses outlined…

This curriculum guide describes a high school English program structured to meet the needs of the homeless boys of Boys Town, Nebraska. The program is individualized, designed to provide as much tutorial help as possible. The general goals of the program are to improve communication skills in reading, writing, speaking, and listening. The guide…

The English language arts "strand curriculum" of the Iowa Department of Public Instruction depicts a "framework" for a K-12 program and encourages teachers to be concerned with three major dimensions of learning--concepts, attitudes, and skills. "Optimum Goals" and "Basic Considerations" are outlined for each "skill strand" and for each "content…

This curriculum guide for elective, non-graded English courses contains general objectives in literature, composition, language, listening, and speaking as well as recommending texts, activities, and recordings for each of 37 courses offered in such diverse areas of study as Utopian Literature, Mythology, Poetry Analysis, Development of the Drama,…

This literature-centered curriculum approach to English, grades 9-12, is proposed as a design to involve students in the learning experience. After an introductory explanation of the program's rationale and general procedures, each unit in the curriculum is outlined briefly; its content, objectives, suggested ability level, and procedures for…