Duration
10 Months
Prerequisites
None
Requirements
None
Course Summary
English 7 focuses on analyzing literature and enhancing writing skills. Students will explore literary elements, poetic devices, and drama, while developing skills in persuasive writing and public speaking. The course also includes discussions on change and identity, comparisons of dramatic texts to films, and analysis of tone, purpose, and structure in writing.
This course will help you meet these goals:
· Explore different elements of fiction such as theme, characters, setting, and plot.
· Develop skills for planning, organizing, drafting, and editing academic writing.
· Evaluate the topic of change in informational texts.
· Prepare for and conduct a group discussion on the topic of change.
· Examine how to form and develop a main idea in academic writing.
· Analyze literary devices such as literal and figurative language and sound in poetry.
· Evaluate common forms and structural elements found in poetry.
· Explore the main literary characteristics of drama.
· Compare and contrast a dramatic text with its film adaptation.
· Investigate elements of writing such as tone, audience, purpose, and structure in
· informational texts.
· Develop skills needed to present ideas to an audience
· Analyze point of view, conflict, theme, setting, and plot in literature.
· Determine the primary features of persuasive writing.
· Develop skills for writing persuasively.
· Explore the element of conflict in informational texts.
· Investigate the elements and purpose of public speaking.
· Identify and implement elements of speechwriting.
· Explore the topic of identity in literature.
· Develop research skills needed for writing academic papers.
· Trace the development of characters in a novel.
· Develop the skills necessary to draft a cohesive research paper.