English
Advanced Academic Language is a course that supports scholars in developing their skills in reading, writing, listening, and speaking in academic English according to the California Common Core State Standards. The goal is to provide scholars the language skills needed to achieve a high score on the ELPAC. This class will use the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt English 3D curriculum along with supplemental texts to provide scholars the opportunity to practice their reading, speaking, listening, and writing skills in English. Scholars will have multiple opportunities to develop mastery of these skills through cooperative and collaborative group work and various work samples that will be assessed by way of the California state standards for English Language Development. The California Common Core state standards for English Language Development are an extension of and support for the English Language Arts standards.
English 1 course content focuses on developing English Language Arts skills in reading, writing, listening and speaking according to the California Common Core State Standards (CCSS). Through the use of various resources students will focus on reading, speaking, listening, and writing skills by producing multiple work samples that will be assessed according to the California Common Core State Standards. Students will have multiple opportunities to develop mastery of these skills through various work samples that will be assessed according to the California Common Core State Standards.
Through a sequence of rigorous, instructional modules, students in this yearlong, rhetoric-based course develop advanced proficiency in expository, analytical, and argumentative reading and writing. The cornerstone of the course - the assignment template - presents a process for helping students read, comprehend, and respond to nonfiction and literary texts. Modules also provide instruction in research methods and documentation conventions. Students will be expected to increase their awareness of the rhetorical strategies employed by authors and to apply those strategies in their own writing. They will read closely to examine the relationship between an author’s argument or theme and his/her audience and purpose.