ELA-610Required
English Language Arts 6
Sixth graders build strong reading and writing habits while sharing their own voices with confidence.
Grade 6 · Year
Department
English Language Arts
The English Language Arts department helps students read closely, write clearly, and discuss ideas with evidence. Students grow as readers of literature and informational texts and as writers who plan, draft, and revise with purpose.
campus imageGrade progression
6
Build reading stamina, narrative and informational writing, and discussion habits.
7
Develop literary analysis, argument writing, and independent research.
8
Tackle complex texts, rhetoric, and a research-based argument portfolio.
Courses (5)
ELA-710Required
English Language Arts 7
Seventh graders read more widely and write longer, better-organized pieces that show real thinking.
Grade 7 · Year
ELA-715Elective
Creative Writing
A friendly semester workshop where young writers play with stories, poems, and their own imagination.
Grade 7 · Semester
ELA-810Required
English Language Arts 8
Eighth graders read challenging texts closely and write with growing independence and purpose.
Grade 8 · Year
ELA-815Elective
Debate and Public Speaking
A semester course that helps students speak up, think on their feet, and listen with respect.
Grade 8 · Semester
Faculty characters
Ms. Harper Quinn
English Language Arts Teacher
Ms. Quinn is a ELA teacher who runs her classroom as a writers' workshop. She sponsors the Creative Writing Circle and believes every student has a story worth revising into something they're proud of.