English 12 Expository Reading and Writing (ERWC)

(ERWC Course #20609)

OPEN TO GRADES: 12

CREDIT: 5 - English credits each semester

PREREQUISITE: Placement determined by SBAC scores

A-G Pathway: B - English

OTHER INFO: A one-year course. May not be repeated for credit and may not be entered at the semester.

Meets CSU/UC A-G entrance requirements

COURSE DESCRIPTION: Expository Reading and Writing, a course developed by a collaborative group of CSU and high school faculty, is designed to help students achieve the following goals:

· Meet the standards of the English Placement Test

· Meet the expectations of college and university faculty

· Meet the California English-Language Arts Content Standards

· Develop literacy skills critical to lifelong participation in the world of work and community

Each assignment is a sequence of integrated reading and writing experiences that will take from one to three weeks to teach. The assignments, many of which include informal writing throughout the process, move from pre-reading activities, through reading and post-reading activities, to formal writing assignments. Along the way, students learn to make predictions about texts, analyze both the content and the rhetorical structures, and properly use materials from the texts they read in supporting their own written arguments.