Welight Education

Critical Reading and Writing II will build on the material and lessons from Critical and Reading I.  It will include a classroom focus on the major elements in strong analytical writing, addressing those challenges that students will face in their English courses in the coming years. Those elements include (among others):

•     Subject-verb agreement
•     Transitioning from sentence to sentence and from paragraph to paragraph
•     Parallel structure
•     Paragraph organization
•     Thesis formation
•     Punctuation
•     Vocabulary

In addition to these essential elements of composition, students will address additional components of strong critical writing, including overall organization and essay structure, supporting arguments and clarifications, relevant textual details and quotations, and independent conclusions and implications. Students will address these concerns in the weekly class periods, and on the weekly reading and writing assignments.

In conjunction with this work on writing skills, students will have weekly reading assignments as well. These assignments will be the focus for writing throughout the course. Titles include:

•     Poor Dear Margaret Kirby by Kathleen Norris
•     Interlopers and Tobermory by H. H. Munro 
•     The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant 
•     The Friday that Changed Everything by Anne Hart 
•     The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula Le Guin
•     The Treasure in the Forrest by H. G. Wells 
•     The Scholarship Jacket by Martha Salinas
•     Seventh Grade by Gary Soto