RPS Summer Academies- English Offerings
English 9 Remedial Credit
English 9 supports students as they transition to the challenges of high school. With emphasis on reading strategies, academic writing, and mature language use, the curriculum provides students with the tools for increasing academic demands. Students in English 9 will experience a rich and varied course of study including core readings and a variety of multicultural short stories and poetry.
English 10 Remedial Credit
This course further develops the multi-paragraph essay form with emphasis on detailed development and variety of structure. Literature is studied in thematic units through short stories, poetry, novels and plays.
English 11 Remedial Credit
This course builds on Grade 10 composition skills, emphasizing the rhetorical principles of unity and coherence. Utilizing skills and knowledge developed in prior grades, students are asked to analyze and draw conclusions from critical reviews and essays and to incorporate these with their own criticisms of the literary works.