GRS A2 English
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Welcome!
 This is the portal for Great River School's A2 English Program. Here you can find course information, helpful course calendars, assignments for your classes, and more. Hooray! * * * "New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become."
- Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
Film Studies
 This course is designed to enhance students’ abilities to interpret, analyze, and appreciate films using a variety of approaches. We will move through film history, learning terms and theories while watching classic and contemporary films and holding seminars. Films may include titles such as Metropolis, Citizen Kane; Do the Right Thing, and Run Lola Run. There will also be choice assignments involving genre/director studies. This class fulfills a semester English credit, and thusly will be homework heavy (readings, papers, presentations, seminar preparation).
Literature of the Americas (2012-2013)
 This course is thematically aligned with the A2 Civics and Government curriculum, and will cover a variety of literatures, both fiction and nonfiction, from North and South America. In addition, the course is designed to help students develop writing skills in fiction and nonfiction, and to assist in the development of critical thinking faculties. Students will learn to write successful academic papers through outlining ideas, writing drafts, peer editing and revising. Students will also learn about the different styles of academic writing, as well as rhetorical modes. |
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Kate Indrelie Classes
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