Adv English Course Overview
This year’s English class will be unlike any ever experienced. After some discussion and practice of the skills needed to succeed in junior high, the first semester will be a thematic unit focused on identity. During this unit we will read short stories, essays, and novels (including The Outsiders), improve writing skills, and hold Socratic seminars. We end the semester with a study of poetry in which the students will create a thematic poetry notebook and perform poetry in a coffee house. The next semester starts with our Carpe Diem unit, in which we examine allegory, education, and making the most of our lives through a variety of literature. The year wraps up with a humor unit that allows to students to showcase the reading and writing skills they have learned. Everything we do is continually built upon over the year. I always say, “It is not where the student is now, but where he/she is by the time he/she leaves my class.”