Primary Emphases:
* Use appropriate evidence
* Use appropriate diction
* Practice independent content revision
* Refine summary and paraphrase

Writing Skills Reinforced:
* Essay structure
* Incorporation of quotations
* Research skills
* Peer editing

Writing Skills Introduced:
* Independent analysis
* Advanced research
* Three-paragraph paper

Writing Focus:
* Process writing
* Journal writing
* Primary source paper
* Multisource paper
* Analysis and evaluative writing
* Research paper: American novel/drama
* Creative writing

Primary Emphasis:
* Analysis

Syntactic Skills Reinforced:
* Sentence structure
* Sentence variety
* Tense
* Voice
* Sentence combining
* Parallel structure
* Syntax, diction, and construction

Syntactic Skills Introduced:
* Advanced syntax, diction, and construction
* Analysis of effect of syntactic structures

Primary Emphases:
* Interpret theme independently
* Understand relationship of style to theme (image, symbol, motif, tone, genre)

Literary Skills Reinforced / Introduced:
* Analyze literature critically
* Evaluate critical material
* Understand relationship between form and content
* Understand relationship between content and historical context

Literary Focus (Novels subject to change):
* Selected histories, sermons, journals, speeches, autobiographies, proverbs, short stories, essays, and poems
* The Crucible by Arthur Miller
* The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
* Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
* A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
* A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
* 1 Contemporary author

Outside Reading:
* One book every six weeks from a list of pre-approved books from the teacher
* Book log
* Book review
* One in-class presentation over novel of choice (as approved by teacher)

Study Skills Introduced / Reinforced:
* Note taking from reading material
* Note taking from lecture
* Vocabulary
* SAT / ACT preparation
* Classroom test preparation
* AP exam preparation