Course Overview

What students will be doing:

• Actively reading multiple text medias, analyzing for ideologies of both social and personal significance. 
• Discussing through personal writing, in small groups, and as a class.
• Writing formal expository, persuasive, narrative and research compositions.

Skills to focus on:

• Active/Rhetorical Reading Strategies
• Annotations
• Question-generation (what questions to ask yourself and others when reading a text and discussing it)
• Pre-writing strategies
• The many forms of the writing process
• Organizing ideas
• Revising
• Editing/Proof-reading