This course offers further practice in literary study, writing, and analytical skills. Students will respond to poetry, drama, short stories, and novels in a variety of ways, including discussion, journal writing, and performance. Students will be expected to gain independence in constructing meaning from a text. Some reading assignments will include works from British literary heritage as well as texts centered on the theme of “The Power of Storytelling.” In the writing program, students will strengthen their ability to write analytically about literature with timed and independent compositions and to create a correctly cited research paper. Writing about personal experience will enhance their ability to reflect about their own lives and prepare them for college essay writing. Students will review problems of grammar and mechanics in class and will apply revision skills to improve their prose style. Vocabulary study will focus on SAT preparation for the first semester and vocabulary in context thereafter.
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Seminar is designed to give incoming freshmen a set of learning tools and methods that will ease their transition from middle school to high school and serve them throughout the high school years. Students will apply content knowledge from English, history, mathematics, science, and other disciplines to investigate real world problems through project-based learning. This course also focuses on CAPT, SAT preparation, and technology utilization. Freshman Seminar is figured into the class rank calculation and selected projects will contain service learning components and will align to school-to-career initiatives. Successful completion of the class also fulfills the technology graduation requirement.
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Waterford High School
Ann Marie Keating
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