1 Trimester
Grade 12
Prerequisite: Composition
Recommended for the college-bound upperclassman

Advanced Composition and Literature is an elective writing and literary evaluation course designed for any junior or senior student who is planning to continue his/her academic career beyond high school. Students in Advanced Composition will be involved in a variety of writing activities designed to ready them for college- level writing experiences. These activities will build upon skills learned in Composition. The first unit of study will be the scholarship essay. Throughout the semester, there will be an emphasis on formal writing. Students will learn advanced research skills through the creation of an Annotated Bibliography and the completion of an 8-10 page research paper (focusing on both MLA and APA documentation). Advanced Composition students will also complete literary analysis after reading a variety of classic literature, such as Animal Farm by George Orwell and essays by Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Students who successfully complete Advanced Composition will have a greater chance of testing out of one of the required English courses in college.

Text: Writer‘s Inc. Write for College
Great Source Education Group, Inc., 1997 ISBN 0-669-44402-2