Class overview
English I - This course surveys the basic literary genres of the novel, poetry, short story, nonfiction, and drama. Through various texts, students also begin to explore the rhetorical techniques and language choices authors use to convey and develop ideas. Additionally, the course provides practice with the full writing process which stresses pre‐writing, drafting, peer sharing and responding, revising, and editing. The writing genres include argumentative, informative/explanatory, and narratives. English III - This course embodies the study of selected genres from American Literature. It will incorporate participation in an integrated study of readings that will motivate speaking and listening as well as writing tasks which employ the rhetorical modes of narration, exposition, argumentation, and literary criticism. |