Ms. Harding

Class Overview

These courses offer opportunities to improve reading, writing, speaking/listening, and critical thinking skills through the study of various literary genres. Students develop an understanding that theme is what relates literature to life and that themes are recurring in the literary world. Students explore the effect of themes in regard to interpretation.  Students will demonstrate competency in a variety of writing genres: narrative, argumentative, expository, and technical. Students will engage in research, timed writings, and the writing process. Instruction in language conventions will occur within the context of reading, writing, and speaking, rather than in isolation.