Main Focus:
* Use of appropriate evidence
* Use of appropriate diction
* Practice independent content revision

Writing Skills Reinforced:
* Essay Structure
* Incorporation of quotations
* Research skills

Writing Skills Introduced:
* Independent revision

Writing Focus:
* Process writing
- narrative
- descriptive
- analysis by division
- process analysis
- cause and effect
- classification
- comparison and contrast
- argument
* Journal writing
* Primary source paper: American novel / drama

Main Focus:
* Analysis

Skills Introduced / Reinforced:
* Sentence structure
* Sentence variety
* Tense
* Voice
* Sentence combining
* Syntax, diction, and construction

Main Focus:
* Interpret theme
* Understand relationship of style to theme

Literary Skills Reinforced / Introduced:
* Analyze literature critically
* 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 Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
* The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
* 1 Contemporary author

Outside Reading:
* One in-class presentation over a novel of your choice (teacher approved) per semester

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