It is aimed at helping students become self-directed writers who demonstrate increasing control and flexibility of their writing process and ownership of their topics and ideas. The student will learn to use and exploit the full research capabilities of the web. This course emphasizes the exploration and communication of thought and the construction of meaning through the language processes and the study of language and literature. Reading and writing are experienced as interactive and interrelated processes with the focus first on meaning and thought, and secondly on the semantic, syntactic, and grammatical conventions of language. All lessons and activities will be planned and implemented so that these skill areas are integrated as much as possible.
Students engage in language processes in their full complexity.
They learn to work these processes and to make decisions about options within these processes in their efforts to clarify and shape their thinking and to communicate with others. The study of language involves both the descriptions of language and its role in communication and shaping thought. Emphasis will be on recognizing writing as an art form for lifelong appreciation and enrichment. The main objective is to ensure that all students will develop their competencies in the language arts to become literate, responsible citizens and lifelong learners.