EAST WINDSOR

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EAST WINDSOR
HIGH SCHOOL
English Department
The vehicle for learning across the curriculum.
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Tonights Objectives

• Present an Overview of Our Programs
• A Look at Our Curriculum
• What are the connections the English Department
  makes with Students
• What are the connections the English Department
  makes with the community
• What are the connections the English
  Department makes with CAPT
• Looking to the future
• What and how the English/Language Arts
  curriculum will be leading students, EWHS, and
  the community at large.

Say, this looks like a good place to go to school!
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What Makes EWHS English Department Special?
StaffCaringDedicated Committed
Every member of the English Department is
involved with students in multiple school
activities!
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English Department
Mrs. Lassow Mr. Anderson Mrs. Archer Mr.
Batch Mrs. Kotula Ms. Pantaleo Mrs. Reid
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Connections with Students

• Personal Senior Essay Review
• Personal Freshman Essay Review
• College Application Review
• Shakespearience
• Live performances
• NCCC Academic Bowl

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EWHS Graduation Requirements

• Course Credits
• Freshmen English 1
• Levels Honors, 2 and 3/4
• Sophomore English 1
• Levels Honors, 2 and 3
• American Literature 1
• Levels Honors and 2
• Junior English 1
• Level 3/4
• UCONN Advanced Composition 1 Level 1 4 UCONN
  credits
• English Literature I - level 2 1/2
• English Literature II - level 2 1/2
• Advance Composition - level 2 1/2
• Senior English - level 3/4 1

English.4 Credits
POSSIBLE ELECTIVES Creative Writing 1/2
cr. Journalism 1/2 cr. Drama 1/2 cr.
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Strategies for Success

• Active Reading
• Journal Responses
• Interpreting
• Connecting and Evaluating
• Summer Reading

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Connections to the CAPT

• Pre-CAPT activities
• Establish areas of needs
• Review the skills
• Response to Literature
• What is good literature (Community involvement)
• Alternative CAPT review and assessments
• Editing
• Persuasive Writing
• Writers workshop

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Pre-CAPT/CAPT Activities

• All ninth grade students will take a Pre-CAPT.
• All tenth graders must take the State CAPT .
• Eleventh graders who did not reach proficiency
  in reading, writing and /or math, must also
  retake the sections that they have not yet
  reached proficiency.
• Twelfth graders who did not yet reached
  proficiency will
• take the alternative CAPT, which is
  offered several
• times during their senior year.
• All students must reach proficiency in reading
  and
• writing in order to graduate from East
  Windsor High
• School.

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Connections with Guidance

• Post Secondary Choices
• College Application Essays
• Resume Review
• Job search
• Cover letter

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Connections to Community

• UCONN Co-op Course
• Poetry club
• Play performances GREASE
• Expressions Creative Writing Magazine

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Summer Reading

• Honor level students will be given a list of
  books which support their course work for summer
  reading. Their assessment (for example, a book
  report) will include CAPT- like activities.
• All other level students will be given an
  opportunity to read and share a summer reading
  book of their choice with their English class in
  September.

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Future of the English Language Arts Department

• More Elective Courses
• -Journalism
• -Creative Writing
• -Drama
• Integrated teaching