ADVANCED TOPICS LANGUAGE & COMPOSITION
ADVANCED TOPICS LANGUAGE & COMPOSITION Online High School Course
Course Introduction:
COURSE LENGTH:
Full Year (30 Sessions)
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
The Advanced Topics Language and Composition course cultivates the reading and writing skills that students need for college success and for intellectually responsible civic engagement. The course guides students in becoming curious, critical, and responsive readers of diverse texts, and becoming flexible, reflective writers of texts addressed to diverse audiences for diverse purposes. The reading and writing students do in the course should deepen and expand their understanding of how written language functions rhetorically: to communicate writers’ intentions and elicit readers’ responses in particular situations. The course cultivates the rhetorical understanding and use of written language by directing students’ attention to writer/reader interactions in their reading and writing of various formal and informal genres.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
Reading:
Explain how writers’ choices reflect the components of the rhetorical situation.
Identify and describe the claims and evidence of an argument.
Describe the reasoning, organization, and development of an argument.
Explain how writers’ stylistic choices contribute to the purpose of an argument.
Writing:
Make strategic choices in a text to address a rhetorical situation.
Analyze and select evidence to develop and refine a claim.
Use organization and commentary to illuminate the line of reasoning in an argument.
Select words and use elements of composition to advance an argument.
GUIDING QUESTIONS:
How do writers’ choices reflect the components of the rhetorical situation?
How do writers make strategic choices in a text to address a rhetorical situation?
How do writers identify and describe the claims and evidence of an argument?
How do writers select and analyze evidence to develop and defend a claim?
How do writers describe the reasoning, organization, and development of an argument?
How do organization and commentary illuminate the line of reason in an argument?
How can you explain writers’ stylistic choices that contribute to the purpose of an argument?
How do words and elements of a composition advance an argument?