Writing Workshop (154)

SPRING SEMESTER
For students in grades 11
Prerequisites: Junior English

This is a writing course designed to reinforce previously taught writing skills with moderate to significant teacher support. The course concentrates on the process and techniques of effective writing. Units include exercises and writing assignments on diction, the audience, point of view, sentence strategy, grammar, paragraphing, and essay writing. Students keep individual journals for daily writing exercises. In addition to the primary focus of the course, brief learning experiences may be provided in the following areas: interviewing, biography, letter writing, and speech writing.

Evaluation is based on progress made commensurate with ability and takes into account the quality of all writing assignments, the improvement in writing achieved by thorough and thoughtful rewriting, journal writing, class participation, tests, and a semester examination.

Evaluation:  Evaluation is based on progress made commensurate with ability and takes into account the quality of all writing assignments, the improvement in writing achieved by thorough and thoughtful rewriting, journal writing, class participation, tests, and semester examinations.

See essential skills, sample reading and sample writing in the menu on left.