At Bainbridge High School, the English Language Arts department is dedicated to preparing all students for their next stage of life, whether college, career, or military.  This preparation is multifaceted and a culmination of four years of instruction.  Throughout their English education at BHS, students will:

•  employ strong, thorough, and explicit textual evidence in their literary analyses and technical research

• will understand the development of multiple ideas through details and structure and track the development of complex characters and advanced elements of plot such as frame narratives and parallel storylines. 

• write while demonstrating their ability to argue effectively, employing the structure, evidence, and rhetoric necessary in the composition of effective, persuasive texts

• be able to construct college-ready research papers of significant length in accordance with the guidelines of standard format styles such as APA and MLA

• build strong and varied vocabularies

• skillfully employ rhetoric and figurative language, purposefully construct tone and mood, and identify lapses in reason or ambiguities in texts

• recognize nuances of meaning imparted by mode of presentation, whether it is live drama, spoken word, digital media, film, dance, or fine art

• have confident familiarity with important foundational documents from American history 

• graduate with the fully developed ability to communicate in multiple modes of discourse demonstrating a strong command of the rules of Standard English.

English Resources

• Georgia ELA Standards

• The Purdue Writing Lab

• AP Central

• SAT Prep

• ACT Prep

• American Literature EOC Guide