Great Neck South High School
English Department

Department Information:
All courses in the English Department include an integrated approach to the study of literature, composition, and language skills to ensure that each student attains both an understanding and an appreciation of the English Language.

English Courses will give students intensive instruction in the skills of listening, reading, literature study, writing, speaking, and appropriate and effective use of language.  Students in grades 9, 10, and 11 will study one Shakespeare play as part of the literature component of each grade's curriculum.  Starting with grade nine, students will study research and writing culminating in the completion of a senior research paper in grade 12. 

Department Phone Number: 516.441.4844
Teacher E-mail Directory

Extra Help Day - Thursday
Testing Day - Friday


Teachers

• David Manuel - Department Head 
• Vincent Amelio 
• James Daszenski
• Margaret Dunne
• Brian Fadde
• Rita Flaherty 
• Patrick Graham 
• Jennifer Hastings
  
• Scott Honig
• Tommy Marr
• Michael Moran
• June Shaw
• Emma VanDyne
• Dan Weinstein

Course Offerings

Course Expectation Sheets:
English 9H CC | English 9R CC | English 10H CC | English 10R CC | English 11R CC | English 11AP CC | English 12AP | Rhetoric of the Moving Image | Creative Writing | English 9-10 | English Regents | Journalism | Reading & Research | Themes in Literature | Modern Drama | The Short Story


Co-curricular Activities

• The Southerner
• Exit 33

Links

• College Board - AP Central - Information about the AP Exam
• Dickens
• Shakespeare
• MLA Documentation
• Bartleby (online texts)
• Information on the English Regents Exam
• Great Neck South High School Library