English
In our English Department we push our students to become better readers and for the most part we do that with awesome, exciting and enticing text selections, lots of which over the years have come from contemporary literature.
Our students share their favorite books read in English class.
Reading for style, author's context
Argumentative essay/claim
Essay rewrites
Writing with brevity
Research essay
Reading for theme and character
Annotation Skills
Sentence structure Paragraph
Use of evidence
Five paragraph essay
Reading and writing through a critical lens
Reading with historical and cultural context
Research writing
Reading for structure, style, voice and author's craft
Close Reading Skills
Best evident paragraph
Independent reading and annotation
Thesis and five paragraph essay
Writing to persuade
- Mondays Not Coming
- A Raisin in the Sun
- The Coldest Winter Ever
- Assata: An Autobiography
- The Kite Runner
- Things Fall Apart
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
- A Long Way Gone
- Like Water for Chocolate
- Everything I Never Told You
- Circe
- Gathering of Old Men
- Sula
- The Kite Runner
- Things Fall Apart
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time