Piscataway High School

ENGLISH 4 ACADEMIC

Course Description: English IV Academic is a five-credit course with a college approach.  Students will read, analyze, respond to and discuss various pieces of literature in a thematic approach.  Students will be expected to be independent learners and thinkers as the course will run similarly to a college freshman English course. Readings will focus on the path to self-discovery, following multiple characters on their journeys.

Some books students will read include:

• A Thousand Splendid Suns  by Khaled Hosseini 
• The Stranger by Albert Camus                                       
• The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
• Fences by George Wilson                             
• Hamlet by William Shakespeare
• Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

Core Texts are supplemented by various short fiction, non-fiction and poetic works to broaden students' understanding