HONORS ENGLISH I Grade 9 
Honors English I is a college preparatory course designed for highly motivated students with outstanding
ability. One course goal is to prepare students for Honors/AP level courses that may be taken in sophomore
through senior years. Based on the NJ Student Learning Standards, critical reading, writing, language,
speaking, and listening skills are refined in a rigorous academic environment in which students are expected
to be able to work independently. Students selected for Honors English I should be highly proficient in their
reading, writing, and organizational abilities. Student selection is based on multiple measures.

LITERATURE AND CINEMA: ANALYZING THE ARTS Grades 11-12 
This is a college preparatory course designed for students in grades 11 and 12. This course investigates
the relationships between two media, film and literature, studying links across genre, structure and style.
The course explores how art challenges cross-cultural, political, and aesthetic boundaries. The course
follows a three-tiered focus with the purpose of making students better academic writers and better literary
readers while utilizing reading, interpretation, and creation of film scripts. This course is structured to
balance both classic and contemporary literature, allowing students to draw connections among the plays
of Shakespeare, Miller, and Shaw with more modern works like The Perks of Being a Wallflower and Room.
This course is aligned to the NJ Student Learning Standards in English Language Arts for Grades 11 and
12 and fulfills an English graduation requirement.