Description:
College-preparatory level composition, literary and rhetorical analysis, grammar and usage, and vocabulary. This is a two-year cycle class. This year’s theme is “Finding Courage.”

Expectations:
In addition to the two days of face-to-face classes, students are expected to work at least two more days under the supervision of the homeschool teacher. Students are expected to assume responsibility for their learning in all areas: reading, vocabulary, writing, and class discussions. Vocabulary study will be primarily literature-based. Students may read 50-75 pages a week, completing handouts or other literature-related work concurrently. Students will also read nonfiction works and complete rhetorical analysis informally and in essays to prepare for college-level reading and writing. In the fall, students will write two complete essays, one of which may be in class; in the spring, students will write an entire essay and a researched argument. Projects will be assigned periodically throughout the year.

Prerequisites:
• Two years of High School level English
• New students must register for and attend the HRM Writing Boot Camp

Required Textbooks:
• IEW Resource Notebook—ISBN 9781623410414 (Student will receive at Writing Boot Camp.)

Literature: (Rented by HRM for $10 rental fee included on invoice.)
Beowulf by Seamus Heaney
Selections from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
A Shakespearean comedy
Summer Reading: Choose a biography or autobiography of any person, living or dead, who overcame adversities of any type

Supplies Needed:
• Pens: black, blue, and red
• Highlighters: green, blue, and yellow
• 3-ring binder, 1 ½ - 2 inch
• Loose-leaf notebook paper
• 2 Pocket folders with 3-ring binder holes to be used in the binder
• Class projects will require additional supplies-to be determined largely by the student