Course overview
Course Description: The English I course focuses on building reading comprehension strategies, vocabulary development, and analyzing literary elements of short stories, poetry, drama, and novels. Students will write for a variety of purpose, tasks and audiences. Essays will include narrative, expository, argumentative, creative, and reflective writings. Students will be expected to conduct research around a topic related to their readings which will culminate in a mini-research paper. Grammar will include the study of sentence patterns, sentence structure, usage, and mechanics.
Course Standards include the following areas: inquiry, reading literary text, reading informational text, writing, and communication.
Google classroom code: 2ag4lgr
Google Classroom link: https://classroom.google.com/c/NjUwODQwMzI2NDk4?cjc=2ag4lgr