This course eases students' transition to middle school with engaging, age-appropriate literary and informational reading selections. Students learn to read critically, analyze texts, and cite evidence to support ideas as they read an array of literary and informational texts. Students sharpen their vocabulary, grammar, and listening skills through explicit modeling and ample practice. Students also engage in routine, responsive writing based on texts they have read. In comprehensive, process-based writing lessons, students write topical essays in narrative, informative, analytical, and argumentative formats. In this full-year course, students develop a mastery of reading, writing, and language arts skills.

Part of the English department at The Delta Academy J-SHS.

Students grow as readers, writers, and thinkers in this middle school course. With engaging literary and informational texts, students learn to think critically, analyze an author's language, and cite evidence to support ideas. Students complete an in-depth novel study and read excerpts from stories, poetry, and nonfiction. Explicit modeling and ample opportunities for practice help students sharpen their vocabulary, grammar, and listening skills. Students also respond routinely to texts they have read. In extensive, processbased writing lessons, students write topical essays in narrative, informative, analytical, and argumentative formats. In this full-year course, students develop a mastery of reading, writing, and language arts skills.

Part of the English department at The Delta Academy J-SHS.

In this course, students build on their knowledge and blossom as thoughtful readers and clear, effective writers. A balance of literary and informational texts engages students throughout the course in reading critically, analyzing texts, and citing evidence to support claims. Students sharpen their vocabulary, grammar, and listening skills through lessons designed to provide explicit modeling and ample opportunities to practice. Students also routinely write responses to texts they have read, and use more extensive, processbased lessons to produce full-length essays in narrative, informative, analytical, and argumentative formats. In this full-year course, students develop a mastery of reading, writing, and language arts skills.

In this thematically organized course, students read a broad variety of fiction and nonfiction, building their background knowledge across complex texts. Students draw upon what they've read to answer questions, make and support claims, analyze central ideas and details, and trace ideas across multiple texts. Students will develop and apply critical thinking and literary analysis skills as they speak, listen, read, and write— building the language arts skills they will need for college and career readiness.

Part of the English department at The Delta Academy J-SHS.

Part of the English department at The Delta Academy J-SHS.

This sophomore English course is organized thematically, allowing students to trace ideas across multiple fiction and nonfiction texts. As students engage with what they read, they use textual evidence to support arguments and to make inferences about the author's purpose and choice of language. In this course students speak, listen, read, and write—developing and applying a range of critical thinking and literary analysis skills they will need to tackle more complex texts in upper grades, college, and careers.

Part of the English department at The Delta Academy J-SHS.

Part of the English department at The Delta Academy J-SHS.

In this course, students journey through the history of American literature, from the early writings of Indigenous peoples and European settlers to modern texts. As students read, they are encouraged to use textual evidence to support their analyses and analyze the impact of the author's choices. Students make written and oral arguments to support claims, and they build upon previous writing skills to develop a formal and mature writing style. Students also develop their listening skills, integrating what they hear and what they read to form and communicate clear perspectives on a variety of issues.