11th Grade English III Curriculum

English III

For grade 11

(1 credit)

Drawing from students’ skills acquired in English I and English II, the curriculum is grounded in the TEKS and the HPISD standards for English Language Arts.  Students’ study of American literature focuses especially upon how American writers create literature in response to their philosophical, historical and cultural climates. 

Drawing upon the English II requirements, students will learn how to analyze themes within and across texts; they also will learn strategies of literary criticism to help them learn how to analyze literature in relation to its historical and philosophical contexts.  Students will learn more sophisticated ways to organize complex ideas in formal compositions and in informal essays. Students also will advance their skills in grammar and vocabulary. Emphasis will be placed on the nature of the writing process as students can be expected to turn in multiple drafts of a paragraph skills in advanced media viewing.