English 4
English IV Grade 12 1 Credit
This course is the capstone of the ECS Literacy program as it cultivates the reading and writing skills that students need for college/career success and for intellectually responsible civic engagement. The course guides students in becoming curious, critical, and responsive readers of diverse texts, and becoming flexible, reflective writers of texts addressed to diverse audiences for diverse purposes. The reading and writing students do in the course should deepen and expand their understanding of how written language functions rhetorically to communicate writers’ intentions and elicit readers’ responses in particular situations. Reading and writing activities in the course also deepen students’ knowledge and control of formal conventions of written language (e.g., vocabulary, diction, syntax, spelling, punctuation, paragraphing, genre). The course helps students understand that formal conventions of the English language in its many written and spoken dialects are historically, culturally, and socially produced. This course will support the year long development of the written/communication component of the ECS Graduation Project.