English 4P ERWC -- Per. 1, 2, and 3

Description:

This course is an alternative to Eng 4 Holt Survey of British Literature and uses the California State University’s Expository Reading and Writing Course (ERWC) as its foundation. The focus of this course is on expository, analytical and argumentative writing and literature that students will be facing at the college level. The course addresses critical reading and writing problems identified by the CSU English Placement Test (EPT) Committee, and prepares students to respond to each rhetorical situation as it arises. The ERWC aligns with the California State Standards, and meets the college prepartory requirements for both UC and CSU.

 

Purpose:

The major goal of the class is to provide students with a strong foundation in expository, analytical, and argumentative writing and literature in order to prepare students for success in college or university courses. The course supports students’ developing abilities to negotiate a variety of texts that they are likely to encounter in college, including contemporary essays, newspapers, magazine articles, editorials, reports, memos, voting materials and assorted public documents and other expository texts. As students are now asked to produce complex written papers that include analysis, synthesis, proposition and support, research papers and essays, students will be introduced to ways of talking about and interacting with text that are practiced in post secondary education.

 

Curriculum:

1st Semester: Writing

 

Types: Reflective, expository, analytical, and argumentative essays

 

Focus: Includes the 3 strands (applications, strategies, and writing conventions)

 

Materials: ERWC materials and supplementary materials, Holt Grammar Handbook

Instructional Strategies: Direct Instruction, Differentiated Instruction, Multiple opportunities for formal and informal writing, Checks for Understanding, Graphic Organizers, Annotating, Modeling and Think-Alouds, Use of audio-visual technology and the Internet, Cooperative/collaborative groupings, Constructive Meaning with Structured Oral Language Practice, Gradual Release of Responsibility Lesson Design

 

 

Types: Variety of literature

 

Focus: 1-2 universal themes and/or essential questions

 

Materials: ERWC materials and supplementary materials, Holt Grammar Handbook

Instructional Strategies: Direct Instruction, Differentiated Instruction, Multiple opportunities for formal and informal writing, Checks for Understanding, Graphic Organizers, Annotating, Modeling and Think-Alouds, Use of audio-visual technology and the Internet, Cooperative/collaborative groupings, Constructive Meaning with Structured Oral Language Practice, Gradual Release of Responsibility Lesson Design

 

Assessments:

 

Type: pre and post assessments, assessment of each genre writing piece, DWA

 

Focus: all writing is assessed by the 3 strands (application, strategies and writing conventions); literature comprehension may be assessed through writing