Course Objectives

GAPH1 provides students with learning opportunities to create greater success in high school English Language Arts (ELA) courses. Students can improve their reading skills and writing skills, which can develop confidence to do better in their courses. This course’s objectives are carefully planned to encourage student’s emerging critical thinking skills. The work performed in this course can prepare students for higher level high school English courses and beyond. This course can also increase students' chances for getting into Pre-AP English courses, which can launch their chances of success in college.

  • Be exposed to readings with growing difficulty

  • Develop knowledge for building vocabulary by using textual evidence and defining words

  • Learn the writing process stages

  • Analyze readings for audience, tone, purpose, and organizational structure

  • Learn how to write topic sentences for paragraphs and create supporting sentences for specific purposes of the assigned essay.

  • Develop knowledge of essay writing do’s and don’ts

  • Develop written essay skills

  • Develop revision techniques for strong writing abilities

  • Develop paraphrasing abilities of passages

  • Use assigned passages to find clues to a writer’s processes

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  • Demonstrate knowledge of a variety of sentence structures

  • Develop awareness of intermediate research skills