High School English???

Question

is high school English like middle school Literature?

and is there an english course? like, adjectives and verbs and stuff?

Answer 1

I can't directly answer you question, as go to school in Canada and likely have a different school system than you. But, in my high school years...which wrapped up last year, it was almost all literature analysis, involving the message of a work, whether it be a short story, novel, poem, or movie. Mind you, a deep movie with plenty of literary elements, like A Beautiful Mind. I didn't have much in the way of grammar, with exception to grade 10 for our first essays. For grades 11 and 12, it was 100% literary elements, reading comprehension, and analysis.

For my introductory English 101 course in college, we've spent 15 minutes or so on grammar per class for about two out of the total 8 months of the course. For marks, my grade is based on four essays, a midterm exam, and a final exam.

You will find the amount of vocabulary in the stories you read will be rich (the more rich the higher up you go), so you will need to go to the dictionary more often. My greatest advice for succeeding in high school English is to read the greatest variety of books as possible, and do your best to master your first argumentative essay in English...meaning ask your teacher about EVERY single detail about your essay. Once you get to the level of writing argumentative essays, it will form a large extent of your mark for the rest of your years taking English courses.

EDIT: To address your question under 'additional details', there are such courses where I go to school. In high school, there is an academic stream, and a non-academic stream for the four core subject areas (social studies, science, math, & English). That's the way it is in the province of Alberta at least. It's my understanding that some provinces only have one stream, instead of two. If your jurisdiction has no 'streams', you WILL be dealing with literature analysis, and minimal amounts of grammar.

The non-academic stream does consist of written work, but no argumentative essays. You can get a high school diploma under the non-academic stream, but you cannot get into a degree program in university/college. For almost all universities in Canada, students need the academic stream English for entrance. The non-academic stream is if you're planning to take a diploma program or not take anything post-secondary.

In college though, I have a friend from high school in the engineering program taking 'English for dummies,' as he calls it. From what I understand, this 'English for dummies' is only available to people in engineering. Some colleges don't require introductory English (literature analysis [101]) to be a requirement to graduate with a degree if you're not in Arts. But for the places that do, you will be dealing with literature analysis in your first year. After first year, it will be optional.

Answer 2

In my situation:

9th Grade English was a review of all the grammer you have learned thus far and some literary elements. We had one research paper to do.

10th grade was less grammer and more on literary elements. We had many papers to do including one research paper.

11th grade was almost no grammer and more on literature and studying the literary elements in that literature. I had even more papers due with only one research paper.

12th grade was absolute no grammer. The intstructor expected you to already know it. We studied literature the whole year and wrote papers on the literature. I remeber one paper that gave me a hard time: describe ambiguity and give examples of it in Nathaniel Hawthorne's works. We also had one research paper.

Answer 3

Not really. You red stories and learn about what makes great literature. Depending on the school, you may write often and do some grammar instruction.

Answer 4

In my high school English courses we always do novel studies, some Shakespeare, and grammar. We also do writing, poetry, and text book stuff.

Answer 5

yea

Answer 6

not much i guess