English Department Overview

Ms. Marciea Ball, English Department Chair

 English Department ESLRs

Spiritually Conscious:

• Raise and explore questions about faith and spirituality through reading and writing.
• Compare and find correlations in literature with the Christian Gospel.
• Explain how religions and spirituality connects to or inspires themes in literature.
• Recognize historical/religious events and their implications in literature.

Academically ready:

• Reading analyzing and comprehending various literary texts.
• Develop essay responses that include clear thesis statements and supporting evidence.
• Critique and respond to arguments made by others.
• Evaluate diverse primary materials such as autobiographies, first person narratives, poetry, and visual artistic texts.
• Evaluate secondary materials such as scholarly works and literary criticisms.
• Organize materials for future study.
• Students will master and understand the significance of the writing process.
• Speak publicly.

Intellectually equipped:

• Demonstrate comprehension of a broad body of Historical, cultural and social knowledge.
• Express ideas clearly in writing.
• Write to persuade with evidence.
• Compare and contrast writing styles by considering viewpoint and audience.
• Explain how a literary work can affect individuals, culture and society.

Naturally expressive:

• Work with classmates to research literarily criticisms and relevant background information.
• Effectively argue a position on a variety of issues.
• Use humanities to display knowledge and apply creativity.
• Being able to reflect and correlate literature with students own histories experiences and goals to contribute to personal growth.
• Being able to express original thoughts and ideas through creative writing.

Technologically Prepared:

• Demonstrate use of technology based research present arguments and contextual information in a multimedia format.
• Effectively use technology for the means of multimedia projects, presentations, composition and publishing.

Socially conscious:

• Identify underrepresented viewpoints in a variety of literary genres.
• Raise and explore questions about beliefs, actions and human nature in a cultural context.
• Access the historical significance and cultural impact of key literary works.
• Globally conscious of current events.