Communications 11 and 12 is intended to help students become fully skilled language users, capable of comprehending and responding to the multiple forms and functions of language that surround them. This is a goal Communications 11 and 12 shares with the other English curricula at these grade levels.
The language arts options for grades 11 and 12 reflect the different language skills senior students choose to focus on as part of their career and personal planning. English Language Arts 11 and 12 focusses on the expressive and functional purposes of language and its uses in a variety of contexts. Technical and Professional Communications 12 focusses more specifically on the functional uses of language in technical and professional contexts. Communications 11 and 12 focusses on the essential language skills students need to function in daily life and the workplace.
Revised: March 5, 1999
