Scarsdale High School

Students will continue to develop their ability to…

• employ a range of writing strategies including brainstorming and free writing, mapping and outlining, conferring with teachers, drafting, and peer editing
• identify those areas in their own writing that are in need of improvement
• sustain some measure of personal voice in their writing
   

Expository Writing

• devise more complex theses, break them down into manageable elements, and establish patterns of organization that best suit their ideas
• use approaches both deductive (e.g., responses to prompts) and inductive (e.g., insights based on what they have noted in their reading) in developing and organizing their ideas
• write to discover and explore, not simply communicate (e.g., split entry journals)
• complete at least one project requiring secondary sources (not necessarily literary criticism) related to a text read in class
   

Expressive Writing

• create a distinctive voice, and make deliberate choices about point of view and tone
• articulate their writing decisions and evaluate their finished pieces of writing
   

Grammar

• recognize and avoid faulty parallelism, incomplete comparisons, and dangling and misplaced modifiers
• punctuate quotations and citations correctly