The English Language Arts curriculum includes common core foundations of building academic vocabulary, writing objective summaries, comprehension of complex text, close reading text, asking questions, analyzing arguments, and conducting research. Focus of this content area is on reading literature, reading informational text, writing, speaking and listening, and language. Students are asked to seek knowledge through guided exploration and text analysis, compare texts through literary analysis, demonstrate ELA based skills, develop insight through demonstrating an understanding of text sets and synthesize their learning through assessment of skills. Students use the HMH into Literature resource.

Students use multiple word analysis skills, knowledge of literary devices and text structures, as well as analytical reading strategies to interpret meaning of grade level text across a wide variety of genres and content areas. Students will write routinely over varied time- frames for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences. By the end of the year, students will read and comprehend literary non-fiction. 

-PSD202 Student Handbook