Courses
English 8 delivers instruction, practice, and review designed to build students’ communication and reading comprehension skills. Reading comprehension lessons strengthen students’ critical analysis skills as they study how nonfiction and literature can be used to share ideas. Writing lessons combine free-response exercises with drafting strategies and exemplars to help students...
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This is the first semester of a full-year course that eases students? transition to middle school with engaging, age-appropriate literary and informational reading selections. Students learn to read critically, analyze texts, and cite evidence to support ideas as they read essential parts of literary and informational texts and explore a...
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Students grow as readers, writers, and thinkers in this first semester of a full-year middle school course. With engaging literary and informational texts, students learn to think critically, analyze an author?s language, and cite evidence to support ideas. Students complete an in-depth study of Jack London?s classic novel White Fang...
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In this first semester of a yearlong course, students build on their knowledge and blossom as thoughtful readers and clear, effective writers. A balance of literary and informational texts engage students throughout the course in reading critically, analyzing texts, and citing evidence to support claims. Students sharpen their vocabulary, grammar,...
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