All Language Arts courses integrate reading, writing, and language study (vocabulary, grammar, mechanics, and such.)
Reading consists of a broad menu of short stories, novels, plays, poetry, and nonfiction. Writing includes critical writing (exposition and persuasion), imaginative writing, and personal writing.
With varying emphases, depending on the class and instructor, Language Arts courses are designed to help students:
• Strengthen critical reading skills
• Acquire fundamentals of literary study and analysis
• Think analytically, perceptively, and logically
• Develop complex thinking skills, such as analysis, synthesis, and
evaluation.
• Think imaginatively
• Acquire the resources to work independently
• Write well in critical, personal and imaginati ve modes.
• Write clearly and precisely
• Enlarge the stock of words at their command
