Course Objectives

GAPH2 is designed to assist the student towards greater success in course work and develop confidence as a reader and writer. Progressing through this course will allow students to establish a foundation of reading comprehension skills and basic essay format. This will be the basis for the majority of writing assignments in the future. This course’s objectives are carefully planned to build a student’s confidence as a writer. The work performed in this course will prepare students for all future reading and writing intensive courses, including Pre-AP/ AP courses at the high school level.

  • Gain stronger vocabulary usage in produced work

  • Move into greater usage and practice of the writing process to develop longer writings.

  • Be introduced to a variety of patterns and purposes

  • Practice more advanced reading strategies

  • Practice more advanced writing strategies

  • Learn how to identify credible research through a variety of sources

  • Develop greater inference skills

  • Practices summaries

  • Demonstrate awareness of intermediate research skills