• All Communication Arts classes work to help students improve their skills, their confidence, and their enjoyment of reading, writing, speaking, and listening. 

• We will read all kinds of modern and classic short stories, plays, and novels, and read some non-fiction works.  We may also explore and share poetry as it appears as music lyrics as well as classic forms. 

• We will write informally in journals every day, and we will practice and learn more about writing paragraphs, essays, and other types of college-prep writing.  Our writing will often extend from our discussions of some of our reading, but we will also tackle contemporary issues in personal and persuasive essays.

• Our room is a classroom as well as a modern computer lab, which is a huge plus for us.  We will do all our writing on the computers, using Microsoft Word, and we will use our internet access to find and use information that connects to what we are reading and studying.  Students have to be comfortable keyboarding and knowing the features of Word.

If you need to contact me at any time, please feel free to call or e-mail (see top of page). Go Hawks!

Websites we will be using regularly:

www.google.com            www.ask.com        www.dogpile.com

Elements of Fiction PowerPoint       

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/

For To Kill a Mockingbird  www.lausd.k12.ca.us/Belmont_HS/tkm/

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