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Objectives

• Hone speaking and listening skills.
• Review and refine reading skills.
• Improve literary text analysis skills.
• Learn to recognize different forms of prose, including novels, short stories, folktales, epistolary writing and parodies.
• Interpret meaning in prose by looking at the way authors use foreshadowing, character, tone and mood.
• Study literary terms and devices, such as point of view, euphemism and symbolism.
• Examine the works of American novelists and short story writers, including Ernest Hemingway, Mark Twain, John Steinbeck, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, Washington Irving and Harper Lee.
• Read ancient poems like The Epic of Gilgamesh, The Odyssey and The Aeneid and then discover more about Greek myth and religion.
• Learn about dramatic periods and styles and how to recognize the use of characters, setting and plots in drama.
• Analyze the works of major poets like William Shakespeare, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Emily Dickinson.
• Study 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' 'Romeo and Juliet' and 'Animal Farm' closely.
• Learn about the works of British fiction authors, such as Charles Dickens, Jane Austen and Jonathan Swift.
• Study themes that contemporary fiction writers like Barbara Kingsolver, Amy Tan, Eli Wiesel and Kurt Vonnegut use.
• Analyze the structure of nonfiction texts and summarize examples of such texts.
• Interpret media and art.
• Build essay writing skills by reviewing thesis statements, the writing process and how to quote sources.
• Explore grammar topics like parts of speech, subject-verb agreement, sentence fragments, comma splices and run-on sentences.
• Develop and hone research skills.