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Reading
& Vocabulary Workshop Using
literature from around the globe and from a variety of genres, this
course presents students with exercises designed to increase their comprehension,
fluency and vocabulary. Developing stronger analytical thinking and
decoding skills, word analysis, and vocabulary development are emphasized.
Instructors also teach strategies that develop both literal and inferential
comprehension. Listening skills and following directions are stressed.
A diagnostic test will be administered to help determine proper placement
of students. Writing
Workshops This
writing course focuses on expressive and persuasive writing skills.
It increases confidence in the student's writing abilities through learning
and practicing essential writing skills from pre-writing to the revision
process. This course will focus on various writing exercises. Topics
include: paragraph coherence and development; thesis statements and
essay organization; narration and description. English This
course provides students with a systematic presentation of the essential
elements of English grammar and mechanics, focusing on grammatical concepts,
language conventions, and sentence-level writing. The course also introduces
word origins and literary devices, short essays and composition, and
penmanship. Short stories and one or two novels will be read as a basis
for introduction to literary analysis, writing assignments and reading
comprehension.
This
course is for students who have completed arithmetic and is a preparation
course for Algebra I. It covers signed numbers, basic algebraic equations,
fractions, measurement, and factorization, simplification of expressions,
word problems, percentages, ratios, proportions, and basic geometry.
Algebra
I Workshop** This
preview course in Algebra prepares students for courses complying with
the new trend in mathematics. This Algebra I course covers symbols,
set theory, open sentences, properties of real numbers ,linear equations,
word problems, absolute value, the Pythagorean theorem, exponents, radicals,
factorization, graphs, and quadratic equations. It is strongly recommended
that students have already taken pre-algebra. This is not a credit course.
Algebra I Full Credit/Enrichment For full credit/enrichment see High School Math SAT
Critical Reading/ CTY Prep This
course is a comprehensive preparation for the SAT I examination. Areas
covered include sentence completion and reading comprehension, logic
and rhetoric, analysis and interpretations, semantics, etymology, word
relationships and roots, denotations, connotation, and vocabulary. Extensive
practice reinforces the skills and strategies that are taught, and several
mastery tests are included for each part. SAT
Writing/ CTY Prep This
course is a comprehensive preparation for the SAT I examination. Areas
covered include sentence completion and reading comprehension, logic
and rhetoric, analysis and interpretations, semantics, etymology, word
relationships and roots, denotations, connotation, and vocabulary. Extensive
practice reinforces the skills and strategies that are taught, and several
mastery tests are included for each part.
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