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This course challenges students to improve their written and oral communication skills, while strengthening students' ability to understand and analyze literature in a variety of genres. Students read a broad array of short stories, poetry, drama, novels, autobiographies, essays, and famous speeches. The course guides students in the close reading and critical analysis of classic works of literature, and helps them appreciate the texts and the contexts in which the works were written.Students broaden their composition skills by examining model essays in various genres by student and published writers. Through in-depth planning, organizing, drafting, revising, proofreading, and feedback, they develop their writing skills. Students build on their grammar, usage, and mechanics skills with the study of sentence analysis and structure, agreement, and punctuation. Student vocabularies are enhanced throughout their studies, improving students’ ability to decipher the meanings of new words. In this course, students build on existing literature and composition skills and move on to higher levels of sophistication. Learners work on independent projects that enhance their skills and challenge them to consider complex ideas and apply the knowledge they have learned.
About me
This is my sixth year to teach English at Neville, but I have been in education for ten years. I endeavor to provide my students with the skills they need to be successful lifelong learners.
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