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Senior / 12th Grade

Senior English will expose students to British Literature, while working on the college essay and post-secondary skills.

Senior English Thematic Units Include:

  • Unit 1: Origin of a Nation
  • Unit 2: A Celebration of Human Achievement
  • Unit 3: Tradition and Reason
  • Unit 4: Emotion and Experimentation
  • Unit 5: An Era of Rapid Change
  • Unit 6: New Ideas, New Voices

AP Senior English: Advanced Placement Literature and Composition

Learn how to understand and evaluate works of fiction, poetry, and drama from various periods and cultures. You’ll read literary works and write essays to explain and support your analysis of them.


National Education Equity Lab Courses

In partnership with pioneering universities, including University of Pennsylvania, Arizona State University, and Brown University, National Education Equity Lab delivers and supports online college credit-bearing courses into teacher-led high school classrooms across the country. Participating students earn widely-transferable college credits and have access to mentorship and hands-on support.  Richmond Hill current offers these classes through National Ed Equity:

  • Arizona State University's Poetry in America: The City from Whitman to Hip Hop 
      • In this course, we consider those American poets whose themes, forms, and voices have given expression to visions of the city since 1850. Beginning with Walt Whitman, the great poet of nineteenth-century New York, we explore the diverse and ever-changing environment of the modern city through the eyes of various poets as well as contemporary hip hop and spoken word artists.
  • Brown University's Law & Literature
      • Through novels, poetry, film, legal writings, and legal opinions, we examine how law and literature are connected to issues like identity, sexuality, injury, policing, speech, and silence.
    • Brown University's Fantastic Places, Unhuman Humans: Exploring Humanity Through Literature
      • Consider what it means to be human by examining the grotesque, monstrous, and alien creatures found lurking in the magic of fiction.
  • UPenn’s Grit Lab: The Psychology of Passion & Perseverance
    • Are you interested in the science and practice of passion and perseverance? The aims of Grit Lab are two-fold: (1) to equip you with generalizable knowledge about the science of passion and perseverance, and (2) to help you apply these insights to your own life.