ENGLISH Archbishop Moeller High School n 9001 Montgomery Road, Cincinnati, OH 45242 n Phone: (513) 791-1680 n www.Moeller.org
FACULTY DEPARTMENTAL OUTCOMES Department Chair A graduate of the Moeller English Program will be able to: Geoffrey Girard: 10 Years Teaching at Moeller Master of Arts in English, Miami University (OH) 1. Critically analyze and respond to diverse forms Contact: [email protected] of college-level text and media. 2. Communicate effectively, expressing ideas and Kevin Buckley ’02: 5 Years Teaching at Moeller positions in multiple forms of writing, media, Master of Arts in Education, Xavier University and speech. 3. Identify and employ college-level English, Justin Claypool: 2 Years Teaching at Moeller with contextually appropriate grammar, vocabulary, Bachelor of Arts in English, College of Charleston and construction. 4. Demonstrate an understanding and appreciation Michael Hayes: 3 Years Teaching at Moeller for the cultural and individual values of Language Arts. Master of Arts in Education, Xavier University 5. Demonstrate a cultural literacy of western text and thought. Matt McLaughlin ’05: 5 Years Teaching at Moeller Bachelor of Arts in English/Secondary Education, CORE COURSES St. Louis University 9th English 1 (Honors, CP1, CP2) 10th English 2 (Honors, CP1, CP2) Frank Minnick: 4 Years Teaching at Moeller 11th English 3 (CP1, CP2) & AP Literature & Composition Master of Fine Arts, Brown University & 12th English 4 (CP1, CP2) & AP Language & Composition Master of Arts in Education, Xavier University ELECTIVE COURSES Michael Rose: 4 Years Teaching at Moeller 10th-12th Grades: Journalism Bachelor of Arts, Lake Forest College 11th-12th Grades: Yearbook Derek Williams: 10 Years Teaching at Moeller Bachelor of Arts in English, University of Cincinnati HONORS/AP COURSES 9th Honors English 10th Honors English DEPARTMENTAL AWARDS & HONORS 11th AP Literature & Composition Justin Claypool: South Carolina School Improvement Honors Journalism Council Teacher of the Year (2010-11) 12th AP Language & Composition Honors Journalism Geoffey Girard: Published Author (Middle Atlantic Press, Touchstone Books, Simon & Schuster) (two novels in 2013); Bronze Quill Award in Advertising (1998); Writers of the Future Fiction Prize (2003)
Michael Rose: Currently editing annotated Ignatius Press Critical Edition of Brave New World; NY Times best-selling non-fiction author; Brown University Teaching & Writing Fellowships
Department Chair Geoffrey Girard discussed his recent novels, Project Cain (teen fiction) and Cain’s Blood (adult fiction) at Joseph-Beth Booksellers in September. READING LIST
Freshmen The Old Man and the Sea (CP1, Honors) Romeo & Juliet (CP2, CP1, Honors) Something Wicked This Way Comes (CP1, Honors) Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (CP1, Honors) The Pearl (CP1) The Hound of the Baskervilles (CP1) The Chocolate War (CP1, Honors) Of Mice and Men (CP2, Cp1, Honors) Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (CP2, CP1, Honors) Maus by Art Spiegelman (CP1) A Separate Peace (CP1, Honors) Anthem (CP2, CP1, Honors) The Book Thief (Honors) Childhood's End (CP1, Honors) Hamilton’s Mythology (CP1, Honors) Flowers for Algernon (CP2, CP1) A Raisin in the Sun (CP2) Ender's Game (CP1) Painting the Black (CP2, CP1) Shane (CP1, Honors) Homer's Odyssey (Honors) Watership Down (CP1, Honors) Little Brother (CP1, Honors) The Hunger Games (CP1)
Short Stories, Poetry and Essays by Vonnegut, W.W. Jacobs, O Henry, Saki, Crane, Philip K. Dick & Ray Bradbury, et al
Sophomores (American Literature) The Scarlet Letter (CP1, Honors) The Crucible (CP1 &CP2) Into the Wild (CP1 &CP2) White Fang (CP1) The Great Gatsby (CP1 & CP2) To Kill a Mockingbird (CP2, CP1, Honors) Fahrenheit 451 (CP1 & CP2) Pride of Baghdad (Graphic Novel) (CP1 & CP2) Martian Chronicles (CP1, CP2) Huckleberry Finn (CP1, Honors) Farewell to Arms (Honors) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Honors) Cannery Row (Honors)
Short Stories, Poetry and Essays by Dickinson, Bradford, Bradstreet, Taylor, Twain, Mather & Edgar Allen Poe, et al
Juniors (British Literature) Great Expectations (AP) Dracula (CP1, AP) Frankenstein: A Modern Prometheus (CP1, AP) Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (CP1, AP) Our Posthuman Future by Francis Fukuyama (AP) 1984 by Orwell (CP2, CP1, AP) Lord of the Flies – William Golding (CP2, CP1) 2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke (CP1) Twelfth Night – William Shakespeare (CP1) Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (CP1, AP) Night (CP2) A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (CP2, CP2) Casino Royale (CP2) The Shawshank Redemption (CP2) Sound and Sense: An Introduction to Poetry (AP) The Canterbury Tales (CP1, AP) Doctor Faustus by Marlowe (CP12, AP) Macbeth (CP2, CP1, AP) Animal Farm (CP2, CP1, AP) The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien (CP1) Watchmen [graphic novel] (CP2, CP1, AP) Dubliners – James Joyce (CP1, AP) Siddhartha (CP2, CP1)
Seniors Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian (CP2) Fallen Angels – Walter Dean Myers (CP2) The Catcher in the Rye (CP2, CP1) 13 Reasons Why – Jay Asher (CP2) Life as We Knew It – Susan Beth Pfeffer (CP2) One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (CP1) The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway (CP1) Hamlet (CP1, AP) Julius Caesar (AP) World War Z (CP1, AP) The Shining (CP2, CP1) The Stranger (CP1) The Beach (CP1) The Great Santini (CP1) Catch 22 (AP) Mother Night (CP2, CP1) Beloved (CP1) Death of a Salesman (CP1) Into Thin Air (CP2, CP1) In Cold Blood (CP1) What is the What (AP) One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (CP1) The Things They Carried (CP1, AP) Henry IV (CP1, AP)
Essays/Stories by Kafka, Wallace, Hunter S. Thomson, Thomas Wolfe, Joyce, Palahniuk, Baldwin & Chinua Achebe, et al