Academics

English

The English Department at Pinkerton Academy strongly believes that a four-year language arts curriculum is essential for all students to prepare them for successful post-secondary pursuits. Effective communication skills optimize students’ potential for living and working productively in a global community. In addition, the study of literature and nonfiction enhances students’ understanding of themselves and helps them realize and appreciate the diversities, commonalities, and complexities of human existence. To this end, the curriculum focuses on a series of competency skills: Argumentative Writing, Informational Writing, Narrative Writing, Reading Literary, Reading Informational, Research, and Speaking/Listening.

Students are given every opportunity to acquire the many skills necessary to become effective writers, readers, researchers, speakers, listeners, and thinkers through a sequential program. All students choose from required courses that are leveled AP, Honors, A, B, C, Explorations, or Foundations. This selection is based on achievement, post-secondary goals, motivation, scholastic responsibility, teacher recommendation, and parental approval. Leveling is intended to challenge students’ abilities and to allow them to reach higher levels of success. In addition, students have opportunities to explore other interests through a variety of electives that supplement the required courses.

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Humanities Center

The Humanities Center, located in Lab C in the Academy Building's Media Center, is supervised by an English teacher or Social Studies teacher and open daily from 7:15 AM -- 1:58 PM. The Humanities Center is closed during period 3.

The Humanities Center’s purpose is for English and Social Studies teachers to support student writers and researchers on specific writing and research tasks in any course. Teachers also can support readers as they strive to understand assigned texts in any course.

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