Literacy is:

• a process of receiving information and making meaning from it

• the ability to identify, understand, interpret, communicate,

  compute, and create text, images, and sounds 

 

The English Language Arts curriculum is designed to develop your literacy. We will explore our use of language to communicate our thoughts and ideas. The course is divided into 3 strands - Reading/Viewing, Writing/Representing, and Speaking/Listening. Details about the evaluation for each strand can be found on each of the Strand pages.

 

We will use a variety of texts as we explore. Texts include anything that people use to communicate. This includes traditional written text, but also includes images, videos, gestures, and sounds - if you can let people know what you're thinking or feeling by doing it, it's a text.

 

Our exploration will be organized into units, each based on a different reading strategy. Writing, speaking, listening, and, of course, reading activities will be embedded into each unit. We will read a variety of poetry, short fiction and non-fiction, and novels. Some selections will be from your text books and some I choose from other places. I'll put links to those on the appropriate unit pages.

 

You are also expected to read independently. Every day.

 

More information, notes, links, etc on each of the units and novels will be found on their pages.

Units: