What can you expect from American Lit? 

This course offers opportunities to improve reading, writing, speaking/listening, and critical thinking skills through the study of American literature. It includes a variety of literary genres and multicultural writers in a chronological or thematic pattern. It emphasizes developing control in expository writing (thesis support) and moving toward precision in personal narrative, descriptive, and persuasive writing.  It refines research skills. It integrates grammar, mechanics, and usage into the writing process.