Course Description:
1. Allow students to earn credits towards high school graduation and meet the requirements
2. Empower student expression through creative writing
3. Foster a love of writing that will transfer to college and beyond
4. Enrich academic writing
5. Focus on and develop critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, and communication
through writing and reading through writing and reading
6. Help students establish their own “writer’s voice”
7. Build confidence in students
8. Boost college and career resumes
9. Improve students’ scores on the CAASPP ELA and PSAT/SAT Reading and Writing and
Language