October 6, 2022 at 7:00 PM - Curriculum, Assessment & Professional Practices Committee

Rationale: 

Key Points of the Briefing: 

• We are bringing forward the following English curricula for approval:

  • English 11 & English 12 (Grade 9)

  • English 21 & English 22 (Grade 10)

• Using Understanding by Design (UbD), our English curricula is built around Common Core State Standards and our Vision of a Graduate 

• English 11 (Honors) units include:

  • Readers and Writers Boot Camp

  • World Perspectives

  • Inquiry

  • Language in the form of Love

  • Mythos and Archetype

• English 12 (College Prep) units include:

  • Readers and Writers Boot Camp

  • Contemporary Literature 

  • Inquiry

  • Adolescent Identity

  •  Courage in the Face of Adversity

• English 21 (Honors) units include:

  • The Transformative Power of Storytelling 

  • Villainizing the Other 

  • Restorying the Narrative

  • The Power and Problem of ‘I’

  • Literary Criticism

• English 22 (College Prep) units include:

  • Critical Reading and Writing 

  • Creativity and Genre

  • Mankind’s Essential Illness 

  • Research 

  • Ambition and Power

  • Teacher’s Choice: Contemporary Voices

Rationale:  (Please note:  The Board welcomes Public Participation and asks that speakers please limit their comments to 2 minutes.  Speakers may offer objective comments of school operations and programs that concern them.  The Board will not permit any expression of personal complaints or defamatory comments about Board of Education personnel and students, nor against any person connected with the Bethel Public School System.)