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Gr 12 | 6 Credits | Year-Long | 5x per Cycle
Gr 12 | 6 Credits | Year-Long | 5x per Cycle
This core senior course will empower students to tell their own stories. We will study the fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry of today’s best writers to develop our own writing craft. We will learn how to access memory and imagination as resources, use concrete and specific language, write scenes instead of summary, center on conflict, and make the familiar feel surprising. Representative texts will include Sherman Alexie’s You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me, Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, and Billy Collins’s 180 More.
Essential Skills:
Essential Skills:
Reading
Reading
Students will recognize subjective and objective responses to a text.
Students will make text to self connections
Students will read analytically without direct instruction by the teacher, tracing characterization, theme, vocabulary
Students will craft discussion questions and engage in sustained, self-directed discussion.
Writing
Writing
Students will be able to write formally about oneself
Students will develop personal voice in writing while using personal anecdotes as evidence
Students will fuse analytical writing with personal writing
Students will use show not tell language
Students will fuse analytical writing with personal writing while examining ways to organize and analyze that expand on the structured 5-paragraph essay format
Speaking & Listening
Students will be able to deliver a polished speech employing appropriate body language, eye contact, inflection, and enunciation.
Students will be able to listen and respond appropriately and constructively to their peers.
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