This course teaches writing together with the planning skills that make writing possible. Students learn to break assignments into steps, organize ideas, manage time and revise, so they can start, sustain and finish written work…
A supportive writing course that helps students get ideas onto the page using planning tools, assistive technology, and step-by-step strategies for sentences, paragraphs, and longer pieces.
Students learn how news is made and how to judge it: fact versus opinion, verification, interviewing, news and opinion writing, media bias and editing, ending with a published newsroom portfolio.
Develop your voice across fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and drama through observation, craft study, experimentation, workshop feedback, and revision, ending with an author portfolio and reading.
Students learn to ask research questions, find and evaluate sources, build evidence-based arguments, use sources ethically, and present a polished research portfolio.
Students read epic, drama, poetry, and fiction from classical times to today’s global voices, building evidence-based interpretation, comparative argument, and a final literature portfolio.
Students read and analyze American voices from oral traditions to contemporary pluralism, writing evidence-based interpretations and building a portfolio of their own American voices.
Literature & Composition II deepens analysis and argument. Students read more complex texts across genres, compare authors' choices, and write longer analytical and argumentative essays, with drafting, feedback and revision built into every unit.
A ninth-grade reading and writing course where students learn close reading, use evidence from texts, and plan, draft, and revise their own essays and creative work.
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