ERWC

ERWC Gets you Ready for the CSU System

ERWC is a key component of the CSU’s Graduation Initiative 2025.

The Syllabus

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Academic dishonesty is defined in my classroom as "Not the student's own work." Sources must be primary or secondary sources. AI only provides you with tertiary "mash-ups" that do not exhibit skill or understanding of concepts in my classroom, therefore AI or any simulator of work is not considered original content created by the student and will result in a zero for academic dishonesty. Any and all further attempts will result in discipline laid out in the student handbook.

What is ERWC?

The Expository Reading and Writing Curriculum Building on the success of the current Expository Reading and Writing Course (ERWC) at grade 12, the third edition of the ERWC expands the curriculum to include grades 11 and 12. The revised curriculum (ERWC 3.0) retains important features of the current edition. It continues to provide material for a rigorous, full-year college-preparatory English course designed to increase the academic preparation of California’s (CA) diverse students. Successful completion of the course at grade 12 is one of many measures used to determine incoming students’ placement in CA State University (CSU) general education English courses; the ERWC is a key component of the CSU’s Graduation Initiative 2025. Approved to satisfy college eligibility requirements for the University of CA and the CSU since 2006 at grade 12, the senior-year course is currently offered by over 1,000 CA high schools. The junior-year ERWC was approved in 2018. The curriculum at both grades is currently being piloted in more than 60 high schools with full implementation expected in fall 2019. High schools may choose to offer ERWC 3.0 in 2019-2020 at grade 11, grade 12, or at grades 11 and 12. The ERWC is an integrated reading, writing, and oral communication curriculum that employs an inquiry-based, rhetorical approach. It is designed to inculcate the strategies, abilities, and habits of mind of fluent academic readers and writers through rhetorical analysis of compelling issues and interesting texts. Building deep conceptual understandings that transform how students read, write, listen, speak, and think, the curriculum is intended to help students transfer their literacy skills to new situations and increase student agency. Developed by teachers for teachers in a continuing collaboration between high school and university faculty, the ERWC modules have been edited and revised according to feedback from practicing teachers in classrooms across CA, Washington (WA), and Hawaii. New emphases in the third edition are transfer of learning; greater variety of literary and informational texts and writing and speaking tasks; and the inclusion of integrated and designated English language development and features from Universal Design for Learning, including student goal setting and formative assessment.