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As Londonderry High School juniors, you will take the PSAT in the fall and the SAT in the late winter/spring of your junior year. Both tests will occur during the regular school day.
Our course curriculum prepares you for your future by strengthening and deepening your skills as a reader and writer.
You continually develop and deepen your skills as a reader when you:
• engage in a dialog with a text
• analyze your response to a text
• develop an argument and select passages from a text as support
• identify connections and reflect on their significance
• develop questions
• research to discover answers to questions and explore connections
• explore literary criticism (reviews, editorials, articles, documentaries etc. …)
• develop your vocabulary.
You continually develop and deepen your skills as a writer when you:
• engage in the writing process – brainstorming, drafting, editing and revising
• effectively edit and refine your writing
• create a supported argument with strong voice, idea development, word choice and organization
• develop your range through multiple genres – argument, reflection, prose, and poetry
• regularly engage in developing your vocabulary with vocabulary.com .