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Great Neck South
High School
English Department

Summer Reading Assignments 

 

Department Information:
All courses in the English Department include an integrated approach to the study of literature, composition, and language skills to ensure that each student attains both an understanding and an appreciation of the English Language.

English Courses will give students intensive instruction in the skills of listening, reading, literature study, writing, speaking, and appropriate and effective use of language.  Students in grades 9, 10, and 11 will study one Shakespeare play as part of the literature component of each grade's curriculum.  Starting with grade nine, students will study research and writing culminating in the completion of a senior research paper in grade 12. 



Teachers:

  • Jennifer Hastings - Department Head  
  • Jennifer Cooney
  • James Daszenski
  • Margaret Dunne
  • Claire Dzwilewski
  • Brian Fadde
  • Patrick Graham 
  • Scott Honig
  • Emily Jensen
  • Joanne Kostopoulos 
  • Sari Mamiye
  • Tommy Marr
  • Michael Moran
  • June Shaw
  • Emma VanDyne
  • Dan Weinstein

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South HIgh SChooL Course Offerings


Course Expectation Sheets:
English 9H | English 9R | English 10H | English 10R English 11R | English 11AP | English 12AP | Rhetoric of the Moving Image Creative Writing | English 9-10 | English Regents | Journalism | Reading & Research | Themes in Literature | Modern Drama | The Short Story


Co-curricular Activities:

  • The Southerner
  • Exit 33


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