Advanced 10th Grade Lit & Comp

Tenth Grade English Language Arts Advanced focuses on comprehension and composition of informative, literary, and argumentative texts, as well as on speaking, listening, research, and critical reasoning skills. This course exposes students to a variety of texts such as novels, short stories, plays, essays, poems, and nonfiction. Students write with a focus on craft and structure for different audiences and purposes. In addition, students engage in discussions and oral presentations, as well as the research process. This course has more depth and complexity and the pace is faster than Tenth Grade English Language Arts. Summer reading is required preparation for this class.