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DESCRIPTION:
The integrated English/Language Arts program at The Woonsocket Area Career & Technical Center (WACTC) is designed to not only meet the academic needs of students, but also to enhance reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills required of each student's career area. It is also our belief that critical evaluative, interpretive and creative skills are to be developed within these classrooms to foster an appreciation and love of language arts within their daily lives. |
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| CURRENT HAPPENINGS: 12th Grade: Students enrolled in the Integrated English Program engage in daily journal writing and silent reading. In order to keep a record of each student's silent reading a weekly correspondence, in the form of a letter is written between the students and teacher is assigned. In addition to this the students have completed autobiographies using the writing process as well as a whole class reading of the novel: "The Autobiography Of An Ex-Colored Man" by James Weldon Johnson. Although the book is a mock autobiography it explores the race question after the time of slavery but before the civil rights movement of the 1960's. Johnson is a Harlem Renaissance writer, poet, and songwriter who were intrigued by the Negro influence of ragtime, which eventually became jazz music. Through out the novel he searches for an identity as a musician and a mulatto, from the contributions jazz has made upon American society, both black and white, during the 1920's and 30's. This theme is ultimately applied to the impact jazz has made upon today's American culture. With the wrap up of the whole class reading the students will engage in an integrated proposal project that will be specific to the student's career areas. The students will work as a team, write a proposal, create a power point presentation of their work and then present it to both academic and career teachers. FUTURE HAPPENINGS:
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