English Offerings

College

• General Skills

  • Grammar, syntax, punctuation

  • Diction, word variety, vividness

  • Communication, clarity, structure

  • Creativity, inspiration, vision 

• Voice​

  • An approach to writing that accepts plurilingualism and multidialectalism as an honest, authentic approach to writing. Exercises and instruction in adopting various voices, code switching, and code meshing.

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High School​

• Language

  • Rhetorical devices, tropes, schemes, imagery

  • Themes, analysis, motifs, meaning

  • Contextualization, history, semiotics

  • Vocabulary

• Composition

  • Creativity in writing (story, poetry, essay)​

  • Communication

• ​Literary Analysis

• General English (subject, theme, moral, lesson, grammar, vocabulary, comprehension)​

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Middle School

• Writing (narrative, description, compare/contrast, brainstorming, editing vs. proofreading, story vs. fact, rewriting)

• General English (subject, theme, moral, lesson, grammar, vocabulary, comprehension, spelling)​

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