Language Arts​

Teacher Information
Irene Bolter      -   [email protected]
Kerry Downs    -   [email protected]
Kinsee Abbott     -   [email protected]

Courses Offered
English 7
English 8
English 9-10
English 11-12
Creative Writing

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COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

English Language Arts 7-12

These courses adhere to the USOE Core Standards for college and career readiness. They focus on five areas: reading literature, reading non-fiction, writing, speaking & listening, and language (grammar/mechanics).

• The Reading standards offer a focus for instruction each year and help ensure that students gain adequate exposure to a range of texts and tasks . Rigor is also infused through the requirement that students read increasingly complex texts through the grades. Students advancing through the grades are expected to meet each year’s grade-specific standards and retain or further develop skills and understandings mastered in preceding grades.
  
• The Writing standards offer a focus for instruction each year to help ensure that students gain adequate mastery of a range of skills and applications. Each year in their writing, students should demonstrate increasing sophistication in all aspects of language use, from vocabulary and syntax to the development and organization of ideas, and they should address increasingly demanding content and sources.
  

(For more details, visit http://www.uen.org/core/ to read through the standards. )

Content topics/skills commonly treated in the course include:

• Novels
  
• Short Stories
  
• Poetry
  
• Drama
  
• Arguments
  
• Grammar
  
• Vocabulary