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English 200

Course No: 1200
Subject: English
Grade Level: 10
Course Length: Year
Course Type: Core Lower-Division
UC/CSU Subject Approval: B
Prerequisite: English 100 or 103H
Criteria for Enrollment: All sophomore students must enroll

English 200 continues the course of study begun in the freshman year.  Skills learned the previous year are refined, expanded, and enhanced.  Basic grammar is reviewed and new material introduced throughout the year.  The lower division writing sequence continues with a review of paragraph writing, which leads into the year’s emphasis on descriptive, narrative, and expository essay writing.  Students will write approximately 10-12 papers in a variety of rhetorical modes.  The writing becomes not only more formal, but increased in length as well with students writing multi-paragraph expository essays by the end of the first quarter.  The reading of literature includes all the major genres: novel, drama, poetry, short story, and essay; however, the study of literature shifts from an organization by form to an organization by themes that reveal an insight into the human condition.

English 203H

Course No: 1203
Subject: English
Grade Level: 10
Course Length: Year
Course Type: Core Lower-Division
UC/CSU Subject Approval: B
Prerequisite: English 100 or 103H
Criteria for Enrollment: See Criteria for Honors Enrollment

The major difference between this honors course and the regular sophomore course is in the number of books that are read and their inherent difficulty, in the mode of instruction in the classroom, in the student initiative required, and in the number of writing assignments (generally 2-3 additional essays per year) along with their increasing and various difficulty.

 

Class receives honors weighting in SI weighted GPA