North Central High School

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

• 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 for determining a system of personal and social values.
• as a means of developing interest in the various media, not merely as vehicles of expression, but as art forms which provide practical and aesthetic insight into human nature.
• as an avenue to the understanding of such abstract concepts as beauty, wisdom, and truth.

The English Department recognizes the communicative process as three-fold: receiving, thinking, and sending. This process incorporates listening as well as reading, speaking as well as writing, and assimilating as well as receiving and sending.