Description

Students will read a variety of texts to analyze key ideas, details, and structures with the goal of summarizing information, creating inferences, and evaluating author’s purpose. Additionally, students will express themselves across all writing formats, using standardized writing procedures and language, to develop a central idea, maintain a coherent focus, and elaborate the points made with relevant research and/or examples. Finally, students will engage in formal and informal verbal discourse to exchange ideas effectively.

Faculty

Ashley Hornig; Katie Midgley; Karl Smith; Julia Todd

Description

Students will analyze various texts in order to identify and examine author’s purpose, locate details and examine characters’ relationships in complicated literature. Students will use textual evidence to create meaning and understand the effect of a text’s style and craft. Students will also read texts to generate inferences, and draw conclusions about people and ideas through reading, writing, and speaking.

Notes

• This course carries a weighted grade. 

• This course may require summer reading. 

• An advanced level of reading, extensive writing, and active class participation are required. 

Faculty

Stacey Beaupre; Julie Fornelli; Diane Higgins