The SHDHS English Department is committed to enhancing the intellectual and cultural lives of each student. We provide guided opportunities for students to effectively communicate through written and spoken word by reading and analyzing a variety of texts aesthetically, critically, rhetorically, and historically. Our goal is to help students produce writing that is research-based, well-organized, rhetorically-aware, critically-engaged, and grammatically-clear. We also strive to produce confident and articulate public speakers. Through critical reading, writing, speaking, and thinking, we prepare students for the expectations of college and the workforce.