The Father Ryan English Department offers a reading and writing-based curriculum that strives to foster both intellectual and moral thoughtfulness among its students in preparation for meeting the challenges and demands of their future post-secondary studies, professional occupations, and personal lives. The English curriculum aspires to the following:
- Life-long appreciation and love for reading
- Effective, original communication in the written and spoken word
- Mastery of grammar and language usage
- Creative, critical, and analytical thinking, writing, and speech
- Close reading: literal & figurative reading comprehension
- Research: using and citing sources to present and argue a thesis
- Biblical and Classical allusion recognition and meaning
- Exposure to a wide and dynamic range of literary authors, genres, perspectives, movements, and cultures throughout history to the present day.
Department Preview:
- Two Advanced Placement Courses
- Journalism-Newspaper
- Military Literature of the World Wars
- Mythology
- Women's Voices in Literature
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