English 2 is an American Literature Course taken during sophomore year.

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This is a pilot-course in 2009-10. The students enrolled in the is class will work together to evaluate the current LPS website, assess changes that need to be made, and implement and construct a new school website.

Eglish 5-6 is a comprehensive English course for juniors. The course content consists of a variety of selections from American literature from the seventeenth century to the present; a regimen of vocabulary study; a study of such composition-related areas as punctuation, sentence mechanics, and good usage; and a variety of expository writing assignments accompanied by appropriate composition instruction. Students will create one multimedia presentation.

The focus of Writing Composition is to teach students to become skilled readers and writers of prose written in a variety of rhetorical contexts and for a variety of purposes.Through assigned reading and writing coursework, students will learn about writer’s purpose, audience expectations, and the way general writing conventions create meaning.

This process-based course will require students to write in both informal and formal contexts.Students will learn and perfect their writing techniques through modeling exercises, journal keeping, collaborative review, and times responses.The main focus of the course is on expository, analytical, and argumentative writing, but student will also compose personal and reflective essays.

Students in this course will participate in basic research procedures.They will be expected to read primary and secondary source material, and they will be asked to incorporate their findings into their own work.They will be taught to summarize, paraphrase, quote and cite source material according to conventions recommended by the Modern Language Association (MLA).