IN READING AND WRITING, STUDENTS DEVELOP THEIR UNIQUE LITERARY IDENTITY.
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In this class, students are developing their voices by creating original pieces that communicate clearly-written purposes, eliciting feedback from peers, researching, and dissecting published pieces to learn about different genres and writing styles to help achieve their own publication goals.
Students' writing will vary in length, purpose, and form each unit as students learn how to fulfill and transform genres to achieve their intentions. Completed pieces and associated evidence of learning will go into a portfolio that they will update and reflect on throughout the course. |
Students select texts that they consider to be important and of interest to them. Students bring their curiosity about the different topics they read about to the text in order to ask questions and engage with the authors, and their peers.
As they make meaning of texts, students read to make a claim about their reading, grounding their learning in textual evidence in an extended writing piece at the end of a unit. Students also submit a collection of their reading and learning in a portfolio that they continuously update and reflect on throughout the course. |