Mrs. Siddons

Class Overviews

Literature  & Composition IV is the fourth course in the standard pathway of  secondary English language arts course. This course develops and refines the  integrated skill set that comprises the English language arts discipline to ensure that students are on track to be college and work ready, with an emphasis on the interpretation, analysis, evaluation, and application of  real-world texts and communications across a wide variety of modes, genres,  and disciplines.

Multicultural Literature & Composition focuses on texts by and about people of wide-ranging ethnic backgrounds. Students explore themes of linguistic and cultural differences by comparing, contrasting, analyzing, and critiquing communication styles and universal themes; they will make connections between works from at least three literary periods and the historical or contemporary contexts in which they were written. Students routinely engage in the integrated and recursive literacy practices that ground, shape, and inform their interpretations and constructions of texts that apply their grammar conventions, vocabulary, context, structure and style, techniques, research and analysis, and periods and movements understandings. This course utilizes the 9th-12th grade standards and the appropriate grade-level expectations in Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts (ELA) Standards.