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English Language Arts Department

The English Language Arts Department encourages students to become learners who can explore, acquire, use, and manipulate both language and knowledge. With these key tools, our learners construct meaning in many subject areas, incorporating practical application and analysis while exploring creative possibilities.

Students develop their global mindedness by applying the skills of reading, writing, analysis, and oral expression to make connections across the wider playing field of intellectual and creative thought in order to contribute to the ongoing discussions of human political, philosophical, scientific, social, and artistic thought and action.

Our curriculum is aligned to the Common Core State Standards for ELA and is designed to develop literary analysis through the close reading of both fiction and nonfiction works from classical to modern times. The curriculum encourages critical thinking by helping students make connections between texts and subject areas to construct larger meanings. 

Our English Language Arts instruction encourages students to think creatively and answer challenging questions. They grow as writers able to artistically use the mechanics of composition, diction, syntax, and figurative language to express themselves and their ideas in explanatory, narrative, poetic, and persuasive pieces. Throughout their ELA instruction, they learn to articulate arguments using the schemes and tropes of modern rhetorical practice in speeches and recitations while exploring the possibilities of literature.

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