<p>Typically, our HS’s progression of English classes is 9th & 10th grade honors, 11th and 12th grade AP. Recently, the school introduced a 12th grade class taught in conjunction with a local college on Rhetoric. The “most advanced” high school students are skipping 10th grade English and going directly to 11th grade AP, 12th grade AP and then taking Rhetoric their senior year. Is there a disadvantage to this progression?</p>
<p>The only important disadvantage I see is if the Rhetoric class involves traveling to the college campus, which could make scheduling the rest of the student’s senior year courses difficult.</p>
<p>Also, if this Rhetoric class is new and not yet a part of the school’s established schedule, it might be worth asking what will happen to students who are on track to take it if the class is cancelled because of budget cuts, insufficient enrollment, or other factors. Most states require four years of English for graduation. If this class were to be cancelled, what would the students do to fulfill the graduation requirement?</p>
<p>My question would be, if students skip 10th grade English, what works of literature will they be missing?</p>
<p>There really is no fixed 10th grade English curriculum, so I would not be concerned about missing certain works of literature. My two Ss read quite different works in 10th grade.
In our school, many students take AP-American lit in the junior year in conjunction with APUSH. In senior year, they take more thematic courses such as a course in Shakespeare plays, semiotics, or something along these lines unless they want to take the AP-English language class. If the college rhetoric class were to be cancelled, would other English classes be available for seniors?</p>