Course ID: 52C
A literature rich curriculum including: classic short stories, excerpts of The Iliad , The Odyssey, The Miracle Worker, and Romeo and Juliet supplemented with thematically related poems, newspaper articles, magazine articles, and related materials. This course will require students to employ reading comprehension skills, critical thinking skills, and to develop the ability to closely and attentively read texts in a way to help them understand and enjoy complex works of literature. Students will be challenged to make connections, analyze complex text, and support responses with text support. Students will compose written responses of varied lengths and complexities in response to readings that require analytical thought. Students will develop cogent reasoning and evidence collection skills, organization, the use of proper mechanics, usage and grammar (all of the proper conventions of the English language). The goal of the course is to help prepare students to be successful on both the state Common Core exam for graduation and to be literate people prepared for success in college, career and life.
1 high school credit