Learners are introduced to the knowledge, skills, and strategies that will be refined, applied, and extended as students engage in more complex ideas, texts, and tasks. Students will be introduced to the various genres of classic and contemporary narrative and informational texts that will be read and analyzed throughout high school. Ninth graders will connect with and respond to texts by analyzing relationships within and across families, communities, societies, governments, and economies. Through the lens of Interrelationships and Self-Reliance, they will consider how they build relationships, how their relationships impact others, and their responsibility to society.
The goal for Advanced Literature and Composition is to refine, apply, and extend the solid foundation of knowledge, skills, and strategies developed in earlier language arts courses. Using the lens of leadership skills, Learners develop a world perspective by analyzing classic and contemporary texts in a variety of genre, including post-colonial literature. Twelfth graders will synthesize information, ideas, and themes to understand the past, the present, and to think innovatively about the future. They will identify and apply their own leadership skills and prepare for responsible action as American citizens in the context of a global world.