Course Description: Students in Honors English III explore the ways that audience, purpose, and context shape oral communication, written communication, media, and technology. While emphasis is placed on communicating for purposes of personal expression, students also engage in meaningful communication for expressive, expository, argumentative, and literary purposes.
Goals: Through the study and exploration of multiple genres of literature, students will
Express reflections and reactions to both fiction and non-fiction texts
Explain meaning, describe processes, and answer research questions
Evaluate communication and critique texts
Make and support an informed opinion
Analyze and discuss literature and author's point of view
Use knowledge of language and standard grammatical conventions