Welcome to English III

Prerequisite: English II
Grade: 11
 
Students continue to increase and refine their reading, writing, listening, speaking, viewing and representing communication skills. Students plan, draft, and complete written compositions on a regular basis, including narrative, argumentative, and personal kinds of writing. Major emphasis is placed on business forms of writing such as the report, the business memo, the narrative of a procedure, the summary or abstract and the resume. Students read extensively in multiples genres from American literature and other world literature. Students learn literary forms and terms associated with selections being read. Students interpret the possible influences of a historical context on a literary work.