What to Expect

Clear, precise writing and speaking are reflections of a mind that thinks logically and clearly. In this course you will develop an analytical mind by using various strategies, texts, and projects that push you to examine friends, families, lives and communities in comparison to the texts being studied.

You will analyze everything from The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and To Kill a Mockingbird, to poetry, literary nonfiction, blogs, drama, metaphor, and the hero’s journey pattern through mythology, popular culture, and your own life. You will practice perspective taking to better understand the world from as many points of view as possible, and begin to find your place in it.

Essential questions focus on how communities shape who we become, as well as how internal and external expectations shape how we view ourselves. Writing as an evolutionary process is central to the class and you will be learning revision, vocabulary, and grammar within the context of your own writing.

You will also have an audience as class presentations become central. To move your audience you will make arguments using various rhetorical techniques, you will perform and entertain, give and accept critiques, and rewrite with ambition towards reaching your potential.  

The Hero's Journey

For their hero's journey Owen Lee and Jeremy Stubbs created a comic cosmic adventure with wit and style about a hero that needs to wipe out the human race, but can't quite catch a break.

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Talk Like a Pirate Day

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The Geek Club

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