English Course Information

English

Graduation Requirement: Four Credits

The Mounds Park Academy English Department strives to provide transformative experiences in the language arts (reading, writing, speaking, listening, thinking) to help students in their growth as discerning communicators and empathetic human beings.  Department members challenge and encourage students to become critical and enthusiastic readers, creative and accomplished writers, active and mature thinkers.  During the course of their studies, MPA English students become more global in their knowledge, more compassionate in their understanding, and more reflective in their nature.
   Reading, writing, speaking, listening, and critical thinking are the cornerstones of the Mounds Park Academy K–12 language arts program and are reinforced in a variety of ways throughout the grades.  A spiraling of the curriculum and a scope and sequence is used.  The Lower School uses the Houghton Mifflin language arts curriculum, supplemented with novels; the Middle and Upper Schools use grade-level texts and extensive literature, striking a balance between skills and content. Teachers have the flexibility and autonomy to select the methods and materials most appropriate for presenting the curriculum.   

Recommended Sequence:

• English 9
• Western Literature
• Composition and American Literature
• Senior Electives