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English Language Arts
• A means for thinking creatively, persuading, exploring new worlds, making informed and reasonable judgments, analyzing, critiquing, comparing and contrasting ideas.
• The personal connection with classic and contemporary text, diversity of cultures and familiarity with all literary genres and forms.
• The ability to acquire and transmit knowledge by identifying cause and effect, supporting a thesis, discerning fact from opinion, gathering evidence, and presenting information in a format which includes correct use of the rules and spelling, capitalization, punctuation, grammar, structure and appropriate conventions. It uses a wide range of forms including the use of technology to present information and to develop text.
"Skillful use of language may be the single most important means of realizing the overarching goal of education to develop informed, thinking citizens." [National Council of Teachers of English, 1989]
If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, contact Anthony Bango, High School English, (518) 439-4921.