Prerequisites
B+ in previous English course
Home Learning
Moderate
Course Description
English Language cultivates the reading and writing skills that students need for college success and for intellectually responsible engagement. The course guides students in becoming curious, critical, and responsive readers of diverse texts, and reflective writers. The reading and writing students do in the course will deepen their understanding of how written language functions rhetorically: to communicate writers’ intentions and elicit readers’ responses in particular situations. The course cultivates the rhetorical understanding and use of written language by directing students’ attention to writer/ reader interactions in their reading and writing.
Learning Outcomes
Students will:
- Develop formal and informal writing in the forms of narrative, expository, analytical, and argumentative pieces.
- Demonstrate independent response and critical thinking about various concepts.
- Develop an understanding of nonfiction writing and how an author can use various rhetorical techniques to crafts an argument.
- Work toward establishing a personal voice and writing style by practicing the writing process (prewriting, drafting, editing, revising, and publishing).
- Develop research skills and the ability to evaluate, use, and cite primary and secondary sources.
Assessment
Student assessment will include:
- Short Answer responses
- Timed essays
- Formal essays
- Presentations (individual)
- Projects
- Participation in class and small group discussions
Grades
11,
12
Grading Scheme
Standards-based Course