Course Description: 

This course develops descriptive, personal narrative, expository, and persuasive writing skills and includes grammar, mechanics, and usage.  It introduces a variety of authors and selections from world literature, poetry, short stories, novels, drama, and classical mythology. It engages students in the research process. It stresses vocabulary development and requires written literary analysis through discussion of the elements of literature. It develops thinking, organizing, interpersonal communication (both verbal and nonverbal), and use of analogies, metaphors and their application to writing.