The English Department at Grayslake North High School is committed to preparing students for critical reading, writing, and thinking tasks that they will encounter in their future. We offer grade-level instruction for all four years, as well as courses in journalism, speech, film, creative writing, and various genre studies. We also offer honors and AP accredited courses. Our co-curricular options include a yearbook, a literary magazine, and an award winning newspaper.

In our changing society, we believe that effective communication through the written and spoken word continues to be an enduring skill. Beyond this, we value humans’ capacity to learn from our own and others’ stories. We hope to convey this sense of wonder about words to our students at Grayslake North High School.

“I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. The poet’s [and] writer's duty is … to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. The poet's voice…can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.”  - William Faulkner, from his Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance speech