Course ID: 62C
Recommended for students who took English 9R
The literature-based curriculum is designed to prepare students to be college and career ready through thorough reading and responding to both fiction and non-fiction selections. Special preparation for the reading and writing skills students will need for the Common Core English Regents examination will be completed. Students will refine close reading skills, textual analysis that develops a central idea supported with textual evidence, writing from sources to make a well-supported argument, and improve higher order thinking. A review of grammar and vocabulary development is also stressed. Reading assignments are selected from the following: Much Ado about Nothing, October Sky, Frankenstein, A Tale of Two Cities, Fallen Angels, Antigone, and various short stories.
1 high school credit