English 12 Honors Advanced Composition (Period 11)

Welcome to Honors Advanced Composition!  In this semester course, students will engage in advanced and enriching experiences in expository writing. They will practice logical and coherent organization, integration of advanced rhetorical strategies, clarity of expression, and suitability of style, usage, and conventions. Students will read expository and informational genres (e.g., essays, biographies, critiques, précis, and news and magazine articles) for literal and implied meaning and will demonstrate an understanding of these texts through classroom discussion, oral presentation, independent research, and written expression. Advanced Composition connects major themes to contemporary issues explored in expository text and through in-depth analyses across multiple texts and genres. Emphasis in this course is on expository reading and writing and the essential skills of revision.