English 9B
PREREQUISITES: English 9A
LENGTH: 1 Trimester
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course is designed to build on the foundations established in English 9A. Students explore definitions and examples of quality writing for multiple purposes. Academic texts include a novel or memoir of literary merit, a Shakespearean drama, poems, short stories, and nonfiction articles. Grammar components emphasize knowledge and application of sentence types, comma rules, run-on sentences, and sentence fragments. English 9B is a single trimester class and is required for enrollment into English 10A.
LENGTH: 1 Trimester
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course is designed to build on the foundations established in English 9A. Students explore definitions and examples of quality writing for multiple purposes. Academic texts include a novel or memoir of literary merit, a Shakespearean drama, poems, short stories, and nonfiction articles. Grammar components emphasize knowledge and application of sentence types, comma rules, run-on sentences, and sentence fragments. English 9B is a single trimester class and is required for enrollment into English 10A.