North Central High School

The goal of the English Department program is to help students grow in their understanding and use of communicative processes:

• as a means for determining a system of personal and social values.
• as an avenue to the understanding of such abstract concepts as beauty, wisdom and truth.
• as a means of developing skills that will enhance students’ occupational and economic futures.
• by incorporating listening as well as reading, speaking as well as writing, and assimilating as well as receiving and sending.
• as a means of affirming the worth of the individual.
• as a vehicle for learning to think independently and critically.
• as a means for contributing positively to democratic institutions.
• as a means of developing interest in various media, not merely as vehicles of expression, but also as art forms that provide practical and aesthetic insight into human nature.