This course focuses on students developing, practicing, and mastering reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills, necessary to pass the Regents examination, given to 10th grade honors students at the end of the year. This course is reading and writing-intensive, and students will be required to read classic and contemporary literature, as well as deliver oral presentations, debate, formulate and defend ideas, do in-depth research, write in a multitude of ways, and deeply understand fiction and non-fiction works.