This course requires students to read and deeply analyze a wide variety of genres including fiction, poetry, drama, and non-fiction texts including informational and argumentative as well as digital/multi-modal texts. Students will utilize their understanding of genres read and the best examples of the author’s craft in a variety of genres to generate written texts of their own with a growing emphasis on critical text analysis. This will occur in individual and group situations through a writing process that involves planning, drafting, revising, and editing. Students will work collaboratively and independently and use listening, speaking reading, writing, and thinking skills to answer text-dependent questions and master TEA grade-level ELAR (and ELPS) standards.