Course Goals:

Students Will:

Look carefully and critically at the world around them and their own basic assumptions.

Look critically at the way the world is presented to them.

Respond deliberately and authoritatively.

Course Objectives

Students will:

Practice Timed Writing

            Essay test for each of above major texts

Know and Understand Major Literary and Rhetorical Devices

Practice Research, Writing, and Presentation Skills

            Satirical Fairy Tale

            Multiple Researched Projects

           TED Video

Op-Ed Argument

Political Cartoon

Research Report - Summary and Synthesis

Collaborative Multi-Media Project

Learn Historical, Social, and Philosophical Contexts

           for the Literature We Read

Practice close, active reading and interpretion of texts 

          from a variety of genres: novel, short story, drama, poetry, graphic novel,

          periodicals, blogs, documentary, radio essay, etc.