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Contemporary Voices in Literature 1,2 (P) (1612, 1613)


Grade Range:
 11–12
 Prerequisites:
 None
 Course duration:
 Two semesters
Subject area in which graduation credit will be given:
 English Language Arts
 UC subject area satisfied:
 b - English
Course Description:
 In this course students explore issues presented by contemporary American and world writers from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds. Students write for various purposes including informational, argumentative, and research-based essays. Students will read a wide variety of literature, including short stories and novels as well as a wide range of informational texts. Students should work collaboratively with their peers discussing their analysis and ideas about texts and current issues. Instruction in each standards-based unit of study integrates reading, writing, speaking and listening, and language study. The goals of instruction are to support students in becoming independent, strategic, critical readers, writers, listeners, and speakers who communicate effectively in various forms, for genuine purposes, and for authentic audiences.

This course also provides protected time for small group designated English Language Development (dELD) instruction for English learners at all proficiency levels. This small group instruction builds critical language skills into and from the English content and is focused on the CA ELD Standards.

State Course Code(s):
 9108 - English 12
Basic Texts and Teaching Guides:
 Sites choose one title:

Contemporary Reader, 7th ed., Prentice Hall, 2002.
—or—
Legacies, 2nd ed., Thomson Learning, 2002.
English 3D, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (designated ELD)