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required. Students who select this course need basic research skills
development.
HONORS
CRITICAL
WRITING
Grade 12
.5 Credit
(5041)
Honors Prerequisite(s): English 9 (5011 or 5012), English 10 (5024 or 5025),
English 11 (5032 or 5033)
This course is designed for highly motivated, academically disciplined
students. Critical Writing teaches students how to apply writing strategies
to the type of writing, analyzing, and thinking that is required in college.
Students are taught how to critically think about their own ideas and the
ideas of others with an emphasis on acknowledging multiple perspectives.
Students also learn to read critically, analyze, and evaluate a writer’s style
and recognize the correlation between a writer’s style and meaning.
Students are expected to participate meaningfully. Students write journals,
essays, and critical reviews. Most papers require research and MLA
documentation. Students are assigned summer reading and will maintain
a journal during the summer before entering class.
CREATIVE
WRITING
Grade 12
.5 Credit
(5042)
CCP Prerequisite(s): English 9 (5011 or 5012), English 10 (5024 or 5025),
English 11 (5032 or 5033) or AP Language (5031).
This half-year course is designed for the highly motivated, academically
disciplined and creative-minded student who wants to branch out in his/her
writing style. Creative writing focuses on three major genes: short story
writing, creative non-fiction, and poetry. Students will also learn
journaling techniques that they will carry throughout the course. Students
will read model texts in each genre, and develop their own writer’s voice
in the process. Students will write essays, poems, and journals. Class
participation and peer-to-peer editing skills are of the utmost importance.
Most work will require familiarity with MLA documentation.
WRITING AND
THE MEDIA
Grade 12
.5 credit
(5045)
CCP Prerequisite(s): English 9 (5012), English 10 (5025), English 11 (5033)
In Writing and the Media, students become media literate. Students learn
the components of mass media and examine the influence of mass media
on themselves and on society. Students improve their ability to think
critically and analytically.
HONORS
ADVANCED
COMPOSITION
Grade 12
.5 Credit
(5047)
Honors Prerequisite(s): English 9 (5011 or 5012), English 10 (5024 or 5025),
*Teacher recommendation AND a B or better in English 11 (5031,
5032, 5033)
This course analyzes theories, methods, and strategies associated with peer
tutoring to empower students to help their peers improve their writing
across disciplines. Students will develop their own writing, research, and
communication skills through the study of writing and rhetoric, revision
strategies, various genres or writing, different learning styles, and best
practices of individual and group tutoring. Additional experiential
learning opportunities will be provided for peer tutors as they observe,
analyze, and reflect upon tutoring practices within other effective writing
center models; students will also attend UCONN’s Conference for
Secondary School Writing Centers. Tutors will complete a minimum of
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