Course Code: #A18000
Length: Year
Credits: 10
High School Subject Area: English
UC Subject Area: B
Prerequisites: Recommended "B" or better in current English

First course will focus on food in literature and the human relationship with food. Over the course of the year the class will read literature and write on topics that deal with our physiological, personal, cultural, social, historical, agricultural, and economic relationship to food. This course may be taken one time in lieu of one semester of English 11 or English 12.

Second will be two perspectives of CA: one focuses on California as a tropical paradise, the end point of Manifest Destiny, the land of sunshine and surf, a place where people find stardom, where people reinvent themselves, a place of refuge and sanctuary, of cultural synthesis, and a place of ideal opportunity. In contrast, another perspective views California as a dystopia, a site of earthquakes, El Nino, environmental pollution, race riots, unwanted immigration, poor public education, superficial celebrities, fiscal irresponsibility, overcrowded prisons, and popular fads that come and go like the next one-hit wonder. We will examine the expression of these contrasting views primarily in the field of literature, but also within the realms of history, geography, politics, urban development, public policy, popular culture, food, language, advertising, television, and film. In addition to these two major perspectives, this course has more recently evolved into an ongoing examination of the newer experiences and definitions of California as manifested in the changing voices, places, myths, policies, and trends of our golden state. This course may be taken one time in lieu of one semester of English 11 or English 12.

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Course Offerings

ENGLISH 9 - Grade 9

ENGLISH 9 SUPPORT - Grade 9

ENGLISH 10 - Grade 10

ENGLISH 10H - Grade 10

AP CAPSTONE SEMINAR- Grades 10-12

ENGLISH 11 - Grade 11

FILM AND LITERATURE- Grades 11-12

AP ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND COMPOSITION- Grades 11-12

ENGLISH CULTURE-FOOD AND LITERATURE & CALIFORNIA DREAMIN'- Grades 11-12

ENGLISH CREATIVITY-VILLAINY IN LITERATURE AND CREATIVE WRITING - Grades 11-12

Race, Class, & Gender in Modern American Literature - Grade 11-12

ENGLISH 12 EXPOSITORY READING & WRITING - Grade 12

AP ENGLISH LITERATURE- Grade 12

AP CAPSTONE RESEARCH- Grade 12