Do you like to talk, tell stories, write, and sing?

Within a supportive community, students will have the chance to work individually and collaboratively to explore and create personally relevant and engaging oral and written texts. To help with this, students will read, listen to, and study compositions by other writers to help broaden their understanding of what it means to share their voice with the world. In addition to writing, this course will also provide students with opportunities for oral and musical performance through  storytelling, and public speaking. Students will be challenged to perform via slam, poetry, speeches, be storytellers, journalists, create podcasts, write opinion pieces for newspapers and explore oral histories. This course, like the other English offerings, will have a composition component that will focus on formal paragraph and essay writing, research projects, as well as personal projects and responses which will allow students to effectively communicate, impart and exchange information, and share experiences and ideas.