Composition & Reading II
The following objectives and learning targets represent the major concepts studied and assessed in this course.
Course Objectives
Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Identify and accurately summarize the elements of an essay: thesis, main ideas and supporting details.
- Develop and support a thesis for different purposes and readers.
- Employ the writing process, which includes invention, planning, drafting and revision.
- Demonstrate expressive, expository and persuasive writing techniques using the principles of organization, unity, coherence and theme development.
- Use documentation principles in a piece of writing.
- Demonstrate critical thinking skills.
- Differentiate personal opinions and assumptions from those of others.
- Use outside sources to synthesize ideas from multiple perspectives.
- Draw informed conclusions from writings and observations.
- Argue reasoned interpretations.
- Critique one’s own writing and the writing of others.
Semester 1
Unit 1
- Use journalistic questioning and observation to create an article using APA format.
- Collaborate to create a print source (magazine, pamphlet, newspaper) addressing different perspectives or avenues of an event or topic.
- Write a journalistic essay on a researched topic.
Unit 2
- Compare and contrast how explicit (era, author demographics, historical events) and implicit concepts have impacted literature’s approach to a chosen topic.
- Research educational articles and criticisms to compare how the era, author demographics, and historical events of the civil rights movement have impacted literature.
Unit 3
- Analyze how the message of the story can change based on the medium used in presentation.
- Read a story that is presented in a variety of mediums (novel, play, movie, theatrical production, podcast) and analyze how the story is affected by the presentation medium.