Writing is included in all courses, including those with a literature

focus. Oral communication skills are practiced and supported in

all courses.

Bellevue School District requires a high school graduate to successfully

complete 4.0 credits of English. These requirements are to be

completed as follows:

A. 1.0 credit of Freshman Composition and Literature or Honors

B. 1.0 credit of Sophomore Composition and Literature or Honors

C. 1.0 credit of American Literature and Composition, AP Language

and American Literature, IB/AP Junior Language and Literature

or AP American Literature and Composition

D. 1.0 credit of Senior English, AP Senior English, AP Literature

and Composition, or IB/AP Senior Language and Literature

High School Texts
9th Grade	10th Grade
Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Night by Elie Wiesel Mythology (various) Poetry (various) Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare	House on Mango Street by Cisneros Catcher in the Rye by Salinger Biblical Allusions (various) Lord of the Flies by Golding Cry, the Beloved Country by Paton Macbeth by Shakespeare
11th Grade	12th Grade
The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald Revolutionaries, Transcendentalists, Puritans (various) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Twain The Things They Carried by O’Brien Fences by Wilson Death of a Salesman by Miller	Brave New World by Huxley Poisonwood Bible by Kingsolver Poetry (various) Siddhartha by Hesse Hamlet by Shakespeare Metamorphosis by Kafka