Course Description This course integrates composition, literature and language studies, and incorporates abstract thinking, creative problem solving, and other high level reasoning skills. Literary analysis and argumentation is introduced.
Semester 1 Units: Short Selections: Literary and informational readings (Analytical & Narrative Writing & Short Selections Unit Test) To Kill a Mockingbird: Fiction & Film Analysis (Theme Analysis—Informational/Explanatory Writing, Collaborative Discussion) Semester 2 Units: Drama: Romeo and Juliet (Allusion Project, Analytical Essay) Research: Various Selections (Research/Argumentative Writing & Presentation) Monster (General classes only; Research/Argumentative Writing) Epic: The Odyssey (Narrative and/or Personal and Reflective Writing)— General English I may or may not do this unit depending on time.