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Language Arts Philosophy
English classes at POLYTECH High School combine literary selections with a carefully structured developmental program of concepts and skills.  The primary goal of the English program is for students and teachers working together to make discoveries about themselves and each other as learners by exploring the ways they learn.  Students and teachers explore learning itself as well as the processes used to learn:  writing, working in groups, listening, reading, speaking, and viewing.  In each of these areas, they examine their past experiences and knowledge, read literature, and conduct research.  As a part of the philosophy of the English classes at POLYTECH High School, students will learn how to write in response to what they have read.  Through varied and frequent integrated writing assignments, students will refine their understanding, purpose, audience, and voice and develop criteria for evaluating writing.  They will participate in speaking and listening activities to build critical thinking by using inference, hypothesis, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation skills.  The English program at POLYTECH High School will emphasize "reading for learning" in academic and technical fields.  Instructional strategies will focus on advancing students' ability to read and comprehend both academic and technical materials, and remedial English will be based on the textbooks and other related materials that students must master in their vocational and academic courses, not on watered-down materials that are unrelated to students' coursework.  The English section will encourage the production of cumulative projects which may be in the form of publishable writing.  Additional components of the English classes at POLYTECH High School include the use of academic logs, participation in book talks, literary and technology academy discussion groups, reading/writing cooperative learning groups, study groups, and groups for special projects which may involve computers.
 
 
Faculty:
     Bob Bassett
     Debra Castille-Hall
     Mrs. Crossen
     Laura Davies
     Sue Edgell
     John Green
     Jenifer Janoss
     Judy Smith
     Pam Wilson		 Curriculum:
    English I
    English II
     English III
     English IV
     Drama
     Journalism
     Speech		 Teacher Resources:
     Resource Page:
       Ninth Grade
     Integrations:
       The Great Gatsby
      Online Learning:
       Blue Web'n
         Awesome Library
         Smartcomputing
         ERIC
         NCTE

 
Student Resources:
     GrammarClinic
     WackyWebTales
     StudyWeb
     Smart Zone
     Internet Public Library
     Writing Abstracts
    TE Writing Packet		 Activities:
     Drama Club
     Yearbook Club
     Flashbacks		 Visit the 
    POLYTECH WebPage

Page created and maintained by Judy Smith and Pam Wilson--June 1999
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