Three English Credits

[HiddenJewel]

Are three English credits for a year within range or is that not heard of?

Because of what we need to cover this year I am looking at ending up with 3 English credits (360 hours) for 9th grade:

English I (Grammar, Essay Writing)
Creative Writing
Literature

[Ellie]

Are three English credits for a year within range or is that not heard of?

Because of what we need to cover this year I am looking at ending up with 3 English credits (360 hours) for 9th grade:

English I (Grammar, Essay Writing)
Creative Writing
Literature
Usually, it's one English credit per year, each year to include grammar (if necessary), composition, and literature.

[K-FL]

Dd#2 ended up w/4 in 1yr due to her cc classes. She had Fresh comp I & II, Speech & Creative Writing. Granted, that's not the "normal" way of doing things, but I'm not complaining. Now she's getting those math & science credits (from the cc) going.

[Chris in VA]

Yep, I agree with the one credit for Comp, Lit, vocab and grammar. I would look at speech as a second credit (elective or Eng, depending). I did make my high schooler do a lot more reading than the public school. I know, it doesn't seem fair, but I handled it this way: I explained the rigor of his Eng credits on his transcript by including a book list. I should have assigned more writing; I would have sent him to his college interview with a portfolio containing at least one research paper and some essays (long and short).

[Corraleno]

Are three English credits for a year within range or is that not heard of?
Because of what we need to cover this year I am looking at ending up with 3 English credits (360 hours) for 9th grade:
English I (Grammar, Essay Writing)
Creative Writing
Literature

A course called "English I" would need to include Literature. I remember taking a separate Creative Writing class in high school, in addition to the regular English class, so you could do 2 credits like this:

English I (grammar, literature, composition)
Creative Writing

Or, if you're going to do less creative writing but a LOT of literature study and analysis, you could divide it like this:

English Composition & Creative Writing (including grammar)
British/American/World Literature (whatever genre you're studying)

Jackie

[HiddenJewel]

Thanks for the input.