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Freshmen English with Ms. Newton |
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As the second step in the English course sequence, English 10 focuses on world literature and builds on the language arts skills acquired in English 9. We will primarily study reading, writing, grammar and oral communication. We will work with masterpieces such as “Things Fall Apart” by Chinua Achebe, “The Great Gatsby” by Scott Fitzgerald, “Persepolis” by Marjane Satrapi, and “Macbeth” by William Shakespeare. Furthermore, we will look for connections between literature, the world, and our society.
Since the primary goal of this course is to address students’ needs for academic writing, we will do a lot of writing. We will follow the process writing tradition, which includes outlining, drafting, revising and editing. While working on writing essays we will also address some grammatical issues, and try to expand our vocabulary.
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Junior English with Ms. Song
An English course in American Literature will engage students in becoming close readers through a variety of time periods, forms of texts, and the literary significance of authors, and in becoming skilled writers through organization of controlled ideas and thesis, a variety of purposes, and a creative lens. The primary theme of this American Literature course is Question & Reformation. All the pieces we are reading contain universal themes, often helping you make connections in other classes, especially History (this year you are also taken the Global Regents). Many of the discussions we will have regard society and reputation. Our essential questions are not only appropriate for the characters we will develop relationships with, but they are questions that we should be pondering often for the well-being of ourselves and society. Essential Question: How has American society utilized literature as a means of questioning social and political structures for the purposes of justice and equality within American society?
Senior English with Ms. Song
Students will make implicit and explicit connections between New York City's historical and contemporary cultures through literature. They will comprehend, analyze, and apply the views of various authors to their own writing and critiques. Students will analyze significant aspects of social justice in New York City, both historically and currently, and apply those aspects to their own creative and informative pieces of writing. Students will recognize and question the bias that exists in various works of literature, and develop an understanding of the connection between author and environment. Finally, students will be able to recognize patterns, economically, socially, and politically, that have existed in New York City.
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Senior English with Ms. Pickering |
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Senior English with Ms. Dam |