Wheeling Central Catholic High School

Academics

ENG111-112 English I (Freshman / Year) - Requirement
This course is designed to develop and to intensify important communication skills. Students expand vocabulary, improve spelling skills, and broaden knowledge of basic grammar and syntax. Students develop reading skills through modern and classical literature. Writing skills are enhanced through descriptive, personal, and critical essays and letter writing.

ENG113 English I (Freshman / Year) - Requirement
This course is designed to improve the language skills of freshmen who have experienced difficulty with English courses in the past. The class provides a firm working knowledge of grammar, vocabulary, spelling, and basic reading comprehension through sentence analysis, completion, and writing.

ENG115 Language Arts (Freshman / Year) - Requirement for all students enrolled in English 113
It offers students an additional opportunity to improve their reading, writing, vocabulary, listening, and oral communication skills. The class is designed to aid students who need to improve reading proficiency and comprehension through silent and oral reading of the literature text, magazines, stories and articles, and workbook supplements.

ENG121-122 English II (Sophomore / Year) - Requirement
This course is designed to refine the communication skills acquired in English I. The focus of this course is critical thinking - the ability to analyze, and appreciate American literature. Students continue to expand vocabulary and spelling skills as well as syntax and grammar, applying what is learned to composition and reading assignments.

ENG123 English II (Sophomore / Year) - Requirement
This course is for sophomores who need further developmental skills in grammar, vocabulary, spelling, reading comprehension, basic writing, and oral communication. Students read a chronology of American literature to develop mature language skills.

ENG131-132 English III (Junior / Year) - Requirement
This course is designed to reaffirm students' ability to read, comprehend, analyze, and enjoy literature while increasing their confidence in vocabulary utilization, writing skills, and speaking talents. Students develop abstract thinking skills, and further enhance composition abilities through the study of British literature.

ENG141-142 English IV (Senior / Year) - Requirement
In this course students critically study and discuss the philosophical and theological concerns found in global literature. students write personal, argumentative, and literature essays. Students are required to use their knowledge of the English language in both a structural and creative way. The successful completion of a research term paper is a requirement for credit in this class.

ENG114 Mythology (Semester)
This course is an introduction to the myths and legends of the Greek and Romans. Students study the major and minor gods and goddesses, and recognize allusions to mythology in literature, art, music, and other areas of culture. Individual and group presentations are assigned in addition to class work, reading, and discussion.

ENG119 Study Skills (Semester)
This course is designed to give students the skills necessary to become better students. Topics include: homework guidelines, listening skills, notetaking methods, visuals, mnemonic devices, dictionary and library skills, test preparation and test taking skills.

ENG135 Speech (Semester)
This course emphasizes all elements of oral communication, personal presentation, and interpersonal communication. Special emphasis is placed on articulation, pronunciation, and diction. Students speak extemporaneously on a variety of topics throughout the semester and are required to deliver four formal speeches.

ENG138-148 Journalism I & II (Year)
Students in this class produce the school yearbook. Students will learn computer-generated layout and design, and photographic composition, processing and printing. Writing skills include novelty leads, feature writing, and straight news stories. Students gain competence in word processing and design graphics by utilizing up to date computer applications.

ENG139 Drama (Semester)
The elements of acting are presented in this class. Topics include movement, voice, and character development. Students utilize the theories in actual performance situations. The class is required to present various improvisations, monologues, and a one act play.

ENG171 Creative Writing I (Semester)
This course provides a sound basis in the mechanics of good composition with the opportunity to explore various styles of writing. Students review the rules of grammar and proper structure while examining both prose and poetry. They learn and practice the processes of pre-writing, writing, and revising in both assigned and free composition. Students must keep a daily journal. English department approval is required.

ENG172 Creative Writing II (Semester)
In this course students enhance those skills practiced and mastered in Creative Writing I. The emphasis is on advanced techniques, writing for an audience, and developing sequential materials. The assignments are designed to lead to a final class project.

ENG180 Shakespeare - Tragedy, Comedy, History (Semester)
In this course students will read the following plays: Othello, King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra, Richard III, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, and The Winter’s Tale. Reading will be covered a number of ways such as in-class and out-of-class reading, journal responses, scene interpretations, presentations, tests and quizzes.

The objective of this course is to cover a selection of Shakespeare’s plays in a detailed, comprehensive, and contextual way. Through their reading and various class activities, students will learn to explicate difficult passages of text, to apply the fundamentals of dramatic structure to the plays, to decipher recurring imagery and themes in the plays as they relate to the characters and the plays as a whole, to interpret scenes through acting and directing, and, most importantly, to understand the poetry of Shakespeare’s plays through the analysis and discussion of character, plot, and theme.