honors stem composition/literature 11

Students in STEM Comp/Lit. 11 will experience English Language Arts (ELA) through the concept of Innovation through the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematical (STEM) lens. Students will learn how to ask out-of-the box questions that generate new ideas and discoveries. In addition, they will develop research skills and use the problem-solving process to create and evaluate those ideas. More of the texts that we read are nonfiction and incorporate science and social studies concepts. We start off with a deep dive on primary source documents which includes authors Aristotle, Locke, Paine and George Washington while reading the “Declaration of the United States” and “The Constitution.” Students will read Ashfall by Mike Mullin. Students will complete an ICAP project researching their next steps after high school and our final textset leverages Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning.