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English 11/12

Writing Skills II focuses on the continued development of advanced compositional skills in expository, argumentative, and creative writing. The goals of the class are to foster increasingly sophisticated reading skills, critical thinking, literary and rhetorical analysis, and to promote greater artistic self-awareness. Cooperative learning ventures, including workshops, peer review, collaborative writing, and extensive discussion, comprise the heart of classroom activities. Over the year, students will maintain a journal consisting of approximately three entries per week and complete at least one additional longer writing assignment each week, including formal critical essays, creative writing, a research paper, and other projects and/or presentations. The readings include fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction, and represent many different styles, time periods, and traditions. Readings include Shakespeare (Hamlet), Sophocles (Oedipus), Mary Shelley (Frankenstein), Huxley, the romantic poets, Dickinson, James Joyce, Flannery O’Connor, Faulkner, Raymond Carver, Chopin, Hemingway, Poe, Whitman, and others.