English Language and Composition 11 is a year-long, one-credit courses designed to prepare students for career and/or college readiness. This course engages students in becoming skilled readers of prose written in a variety of rhetorical contexts, and in becoming skilled writers who compose for a variety of purposes. Both their writing and their reading should make students aware of the interactions among a writer’s purposes, audience expectations, and subjects, as well as the way genre conventions and the resources of language contribute to effectiveness in writing.
Students should expect to continue working with various literary selections (short stories, novels, drama, nonfiction, and poetry), focusing primarily on American Literature, as well as choice books focused on extending students’ literary analysis skills through reading, discussion, and shorter writing activities. The composition component will help students develop and enhance their writing skills through the use of MEL-Con, review of grammar and conventions correction, and vocabulary study. Literature logs, timed writing, paragraphs, various essays, rhetorical analysis, argumentative, and synthesis papers will also be assigned.