English/Language Arts
The English/Language Arts Department offers a wide assortment of classes to meet our students’ graduation requirements and to implement our journalism and communications components. Our department includes the award winning student-produced newspaper The Pearl Post and our student-produced Yearbook.
Currently, we offer the following coursework English and Journalism:
- English 9
- Honors English 9
- English 10
- Honors English 10
- American Literature and Composition
- AP English Language
- Expository/Composition
- AP English Literature
- Journalism 1
- Journalism 2 (Newspaper)
- Journalism 3 (Newspaper)
- Yearbook
English Department Faculty - Click on the link to email the teacher
Mrs. Pevar (Department Chair)
Ms. Strojny (Teacher Librarian)
Ms. Wald-Barry
DPMHS English Department Resources
Combined AP Language and Literature Summer Practice Assignment_2015-2016
All students should be familiar with the following websites and the support they provide for formal papers across all subject areas.
The sites marked with a (*) are specifically assigned to students in all English classes at DPMHS during the first weeks of school.
AVOIDING PLAGIARISM
DPMHS English Department Academic Honesty Policy
MLA GUIDES
MLA Style Guide at OWL at Purdue
GENERAL COMPREHENSIVE WRITING RESOURCES
Writing the Academic Paper at Dartmouth
Writing at Colorado State University
University of Richmond Writing Center
USAGE AND GRAMMAR SUPPORT
After following the link, select the textbook that is most appropriate for your grade level
Prentice Hall Writing and Grammar
RHETORICAL RESOURCES
General Rhetorical Resources List of Links
The Forest of Rhetoric (Bringham Young University)
LAUSD RESOURCES
Some LAUSD Resources are only available through the school portal
LAUSD Digital Library (AP, Encyclopedia Britannica, Facts on File)
RESEARCH RESOURCES
CAHSEE SUPPORT
CURRICULUM
Grade Level Texts
All literature is on the California State Recommended Literature List which can be found here: http://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/cr/rl/
