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English 3,4 (P) (1570, 1571)


Grade Range:
 10
 Prerequisites:
 None
 Course duration:
 Two semesters
Subject area in which graduation credit will be given:
 English Language Arts
 UC subject area satisfied:
 b - English
Course Description:
 English 3,4 is a one-period literacy course required of all grade 10 students, except those enrolled in English 3,4 Block or English 3,4 Advanced. The course content focuses on teaching the students skills and strategies for critical, independent reading and writing of increasingly complex expository and narrative texts.

Instruction in each standards-based unit of study interrelates reading, writing, oral communication, and language study. Students are provided with multiple opportunities to articulate their own ideas as well as to question, interpret, and evaluate others’ ideas.

The goal of instruction is to support students in becoming independent, strategic, critical readers, writers, listeners, and speakers who communicate effectively in various forms, for genuine purposes, and to authentic audiences.

This course also provides protected time for small group designated English Language Development (dELD) instruction for English learners at all proficiency levels. This small group instruction builds critical language skills into and from the English content and is focused on the CA ELD Standards.

State Course Code(s):
 9106 - English 10
Basic Texts and Teaching Guides:
 Literature, Grade 10, McDougal Littell, 2009.
Open Education Resources: Units for English 3-4
English 3D, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (designated ELD)