Literature, Texts, and Composition

Grade Level: 9

Credit: 2 English Credits

Full-year, 5-day per week course

Literature, Texts, and Composition is a rigorous college preparatory course in which students will read, discuss and respond to increasingly complex literary and non-literary texts— including speeches, non-fiction articles, short stories, novels, dramatic works, and poems—that represent a variety of cultures. Writing instruction will help students make strategic choices about language, structure, and argument in order to produce clear, persuasive and interesting writing. Students will develop the literacy skills that will support their success across all disciplines and allow them to communicate successfully by aligning their purpose, audience and mode of expression. Previously studied works include: Of Mice and Men, Sing Unburied Sing, The Odyssey, Catcher in the Rye, Persepolis, Taming of the Shrew, Master Harold and the Boys, and selected short stories, speeches, and poems from authors of world-wide origins.