English 1

The Pre-AP English classroom will prepare students for close, critical reading and analytical writing. This course trains the reader to observe the small details within a text to arrive at a deeper understanding of the whole. It also trains the reader to appreciate authors’ sometimes subtle choices, developing awareness of how words produce effects and how the conventions of the English language are used for both precision and style. As writers, students will focus first on crafting complex sentences, building this foundational skill; they will then move on to producing well-organized paragraphs, as the year progresses, more sophisticated, longer-form analyses.