Emphasizes development of strategies to effectively communicate in English for high school completion, and college and career readiness. Students read and report on books, short stories, graphs, maps, and informational text that relate to social studies, science and literature. Students meet composition objectives by writing complete sentences in short answers, notes, and paragraphs. Students build their vocabulary for reading and writing as well as improve spelling and technology skills. $25 per quarter BEdA tuition. Course Outcomes: 1. Comprehend what they read and identify main ideas. ILO (1, 3) 2. Read a passage and pick out the major details. ILO (1, 3) 3. Recognize the parts of speech and use the correct forms of nouns, verbs, pronouns, prepositions, and modifiers in written work. ILO (3,4) 4.Recognize and correct common grammar errors in assigned activities, quizzes, and exercises, as well as in their own sentences. ILO (1, 3, 4) 5. Apply standard English punctuation, capitalization, and spelling rules in correcting assigned activities, quizzes, and exercises, as well as in their own sentences. ILO (3,4) 6. Follow directions to generate complete simple, compound, and complex sentences demonstrating proficiency in sentence basics. ILO (1, 3, 4)