The Middle School English program focuses on promoting students’ reading comprehension, appreciation of literature, and ability to write clearly and correctly.
Knowing that the better students read, the better they write, and that the better students write, the better they read, Middle School English faculty move lessons fluidly among reading, vocabulary, spelling, writing, grammar, and other skills. Students learn to comprehend both classic and contemporary works of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction, to navigate the art of writing, to structure essays that take risks and argue an opinion that is not obvious, and to experiment with writing poetry and fiction and to speak publically. Middle School English faculty lead our students from intellectual childhood to intellectual young adulthood.