The English curriculum focuses on developing strong writers and life-long readers. Students write frequently on a variety of subjects. Curriculum includes the teaching of writing as a process. Effort is made to provide students with a wide variety of audiences for their written work. Many students have won regional and national writing competitions . Components of spelling, vocabulary development and grammar are also a significant part of the English curriculum.
Students read from a variety of literature including texts from the traditional canon (Richard III by William Shakespeare), the middle school canon , and contemporary classics . Creative projects are regularly used to take students into, through and beyond the text. Taylor makes an effort to bring local authors to the campus to meet with our students. In recent years, we have welcomed Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and Gary Soto.
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