English

Middle School English

6th – 8th Grades
Monday: 8:30 am – 10:00 am

Mrs. Meier

This course provides a wonderful foundation in spelling, grammar, and the writing process. It emphasizes simple but useful composition and language strategies, with great opportunities for modeling practical, real-world writing situations, enabling students to improve their skills in communicating through writing. Students will experience a variety of appropriate reading selections and will be systematically walked through the critical thinking process with comprehension techniques at their level, as well as note-taking instruction.

High School English

8th – 12th Grades
Monday: 11:45 am – 1:15 pm

Mrs. Howe

This year’s focus is American Literature. This course emphasizes the continued application of core skills in the area of English which will cover reading, writing, speaking, listening, and critical thinking. Students reinforce their skills by formulating clearly written sentences and applying the correct usage of grammar in their written work. Students will continue to refine their writing skills by using the writing process to compose core writing assignments and to respond to timed writing prompts as well as training on information gathering and research paper preparation. The comprehensive study of American time periods and their corresponding literary pieces will focus on the analysis of short stories, nonfiction, poetry, drama, and novels.