At AMHS English, we:
- Have devoted teachers, who are innovative, flexible, passionate, and supportive;
- Supply skills-based curriculum with a focus on cross-curricular connections;
- Deliver rigorous and student-centred curriculum;
- Focus on teaching critical thinking skills;
- Incorporate both traditional and contemporary texts in our courses;
- Provide our students the opportunity to critically analyze multimodal texts including, but not limited to, visual texts, essays, novels, films, short stories, media products, drama, and poetry; and
- Utilize a multi-literacies approach to engage our learners.
Compulsory courses in English emphasize reading, writing, oral communication, critical thinking, media studies and metacognition.
“At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader.”
Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading