English 12H/SS

The first semester of this course will provide you with the opportunity to become a more effective writer and critical reader. Literature will focus on the quarter themes of Challenges and Reflections. We will also prepare for the second semester internship or project so that you are ready to begin as soon as second semester begins.

Course Goals and Objectives

• To use literature to help make sense of the world

• To illustrate your own interpretation of a text

• To express your ideas and experiences through the spoken and written word

• To see yourself positively as a reader, writer, listener, thinker, and speaker

The course goals and policies can be found in your course expectations posted in Google Classroom on the first day of class.

Texts

We will read texts from the list provided below:

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (summer reading)

The Body by Stephen King

Into the Wild by John Krakauer

Night by Elie Wiesel

The Laramie Project by Moisés Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theater Project

Selected short stories, poems, and films