Students hone their critical reading, thinking, and writing skills while exploring genres of writing across multiple subjects within an advanced high school curriculum. Students will be challenged to develop and apply their written and oral communication skills far beyond the English classroom by crafting an investigative article, a college application-style personal essay, a historical documentary, and a scientific journal paper.
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Each unit in Exposition challenges students to solve a problem of effective communication within a real-world context, uncovering the ins and outs of effective expository writing and speaking. This language arts course features a cumulative skill progression, such that by the end of the year students will be creating multi-component projects with ease.
In the first unit, students take on the role of investigative journalist, learning to gather and organize facts, conduct interviews with sources, and synthesize information they've gathered on a real story from their own lives into a magazine-quality investigative article and live television report.
In the second unit, students study and join the long tradition of the personal essay, practicing introspection and metacognition as they articulate not just a belief but also the experiences that have led them to hold it.
In the third unit, students trace the historical development of an aspect of the modern world, learning research skills and how to build a coherent and persuasive narrative out of seemingly disparate events to create a documentary detailing the historical patterns they’ve uncovered.
In the final unit, students conduct an independent experiment to research a scientific question and derive their own conclusion, before mastering skills crucial to clear scientific communication in the process of writing a journal paper and preparing a TED Talk presenting their findings.
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