ELL-  English Language Learners

Students need English for two reasons: social and academic. While participating as fully as possible in the academic learning of the regular classroom, students whose first language is not English are given social, academic and language support from a trained ELL teacher.

Aims of the ELL Department

• to facilitate the orientation and integration of new ELL students into their new school environment
• to provide a variety of positive opportunities for the ELL students to establish and maintain social relations within the school through the use of English language
• to provide the students with the language skills and strategies necessary to work successfully in the mainstream classes
• to assist the students to integrate successfully into the content-based academic program by making the activities and texts of mainstream classes accessible
• to support language learning by working cooperatively with the mainstream teacher
• to provide as much individualized instruction as possible in order to give optimal support to each student’s linguistic development
• to foster linguistic and cultural awareness among students, teachers, and parents

This course begins with the Black Death and its impact on feudalism and ends at the start of the 1900s. Using primary sources, students will analyze information to use in support of essays that address essential questions for each topic. This course provides students with the foundation skills for future studies in Social Studies. 

In order to become a thoughtful, productive citizen in the 21^st century, an individual must think critically, read widely with full comprehension, and write from a perspective of strength, truth, and conviction. Within this English course, students will hone the composition skills needed to meet the challenges of formal academic writing as well discover and harness the inspiration needed to write creatively. A focus of this course is to study representative works from world literature in relation to the historical and cultural forces which influenced them. This class is designed to promote academic excellence in English language arts through enriching experiences in literary analyses, vocabulary development, grammar usage and application, and written and oral communication—through both formal and creative expression.