CAP 025 - English Language Arts

Credits: 5
LEC hours per week: 5
This course is intended for students seeking an adult high school diploma through the High School 21 program, students studying for the GED exam, and students seeking educational enrichment. In this course, students will increase their confidence and ability in writing and reading for academic purposes, employment, and everyday life. Course content emphasizes the mechanics of writing as well as strategies to develop and organize complex ideas in writing. The reading component of this course focuses on interpreting and analyzing a variety of texts, including fiction, nonfiction, and informational. This course is designed to prepare students for a successful transition to college-level courses and to develop the behaviors and values relevant to success in higher education and the labor market. Students who successfully complete this course will earn a High School 21 credit in English. Students can earn an additional credit if they demonstrate the requisite competencies. All students under 19 years of age must have a signed release from the last school they attended. Students 16-17 years of age must first be admitted to the College following the Alternative Education Program (AEP) eligibility or Underage Admissions policy, which is available in the High School Programs office. Formerly: ABE 025.
Course Outcomes:

Organize and analyze information and reflect upon its meaning in order to draw sound conclusions.
Assess how authors structure text and deploy vocabulary for specific writing purposes and audiences, and apply these strategies to one’s own writing.
Analyze the ways in which purpose and audience shape the construction of a text.
Deploy strategies to plan, organize, and structure complex ideas to produce a legible and comprehensible draft.
Moderate vocabulary (including idiom, colloquialisms, and cultural references, sentence structure, voice, tone, rhetorical forms, and style for a variety of audiences and purposes.
Evaluate writing and deploy strategies for revising.
Use computer technology and learning management systems to access new information, produce written work, and access and submit course materials.
Students will show proficiency at level C in Reading based on the Career and College Readiness standards anchors 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 9, and 10 (use reading rubric to determine competency).
Students will show proficiency at level C in Writing based on the Career and College Readiness standards anchors 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 (use writing rubric to determine competency).
Students will show proficiency at level B in Math based on the Career and College Readiness standards anchors 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 (use math rubric to determine competency).

Course Topics:

Interpreting and analyzing nonfiction, fiction, and informational text.
Writing effective sentences.
Developing and connecting ideas.
Writing about text and revising.
Using grammar correctly.
Utilizing writing mechanics and writing conventions.