A Study in the Changing Art of
​Communicating Our Message

Course Description:
This one-semester course focuses on issues and topics relevant to modern life. Students are asked to question the way they experience the world around them through text, film, art, and so forth. Various activities surrounding such works lead to direct, personal connections with the issues covered. Through personal, analytical, and argumentative discussion and writing, students increase their ability to think and write critically about the world around them.

Curriculum Guide:
Modern Expression follows a flexible structure that allows the teacher to tailor assignments, activities, and even units to the needs of the particular students in a specific section of the course and to be both reflective of and responsive to current events and the ever-evolving field of artistic expression. As a course engaged in Standards-Referenced Grading, Modern Expression has a set of curriculum scales used for reporting student achievement in the class, and those are located at the link below.

A Study of the Evolving Literature of
​the Graphic Novel

Course Description:
In this one-semester course, students will read literary works that have been constructed or adapted in a graphic novel format, enabling deeper analysis of the text involved.  This course will be a collaborative learning community in which the students will explore the graphic novel medium as a mode of communicating stories, using the various texts as a way to enhance, practice, and master traditional and new literacies. Graphic novels are a rich and varied form of literature and students will analyze the structure, research the history and growth of the popular culture phenomenon of graphic novels, and look closely at the effects created in sequential art narrative.

Curriculum Guide:
Graphic Novels follows a flexible structure that allows the teacher to tailor assignments, activities, and text selections to the students in the course in any given year or section. The SRG curriculum scales for Graphic Novels are located at the link below.

New Offering: Intro to Spoken Word

This new elective course is designed to engage students in both the study and performance of spoken word poetry on a variety of topics.

Additional Resources

All three courses are currently without adopted textbook resources, though individual student novels, anthologies, and graphic novels for all courses are available. The status of a new materials adoption for these courses is pending.

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