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DHH American Literature 1,2 (P) (1583W, 1584W)


Grade Range:
 11
 Prerequisites:
 None.
 Course duration:
 Two semesters.
Subject area in which graduation credit will be given:
 American Literature
 UC subject area satisfied:
 b - English
Notes:
 This course will be adapted to provide accessibility to the curriculum for Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing students and will be taught in American Sign Language.
Course Description:
 This course emphasizes skills and strategies for independent reading of, analyzing, and writing about works of American literature, with a focus on how that literature reflects social, political, and moral issues in the United States. Instruction in each standards-based unit of study integrates reading, writing, speaking and listening, and language study. Students are provided with multiple opportunities to articulate their own ideas as well as to question, interpret, analyze, extend, 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):
 9107 - English 11
Basic Texts and Teaching Guides:
 The Language of Literature, American Literature, California ed., McDougal Littell, 2006.
English 3D, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (designated ELD)
Open Education Resources: SDUSD GVC Units for American Literature

 ELA-72