Placement Guide

All English courses have the following attributes:

• Follow a rigorous curriculum to prepare students for college and career
• Require students to work toward mastery of the Common Core State Standards.
• Develop critical thinking skills.
• Require students to write argumentative essays, narratives, responses to literature, and summaries.
• Provide opportunities for students to improve listening and speaking skills.
• Select novels from the same board-approved list of titles.
• Use technology to help improve reading and writing skills.

Honors classes differentiate in the following ways:

• Move beyond current grade level standards to advance skills.
• Required course reading is done at a more accelerated pace
• Writing is more sophisticated (more complex and varied sentence structure, greater depth of thought and analysis).
• Assigned readings are at a higher level of difficulty.
• Requires students to think critically and synthesize the material learned in class to a greater depth and complexity.
• Grammar applications are more sophisticated and complex.

The ultimate goal is for your child to be happy, healthy,

and appropriately challenged.