The focus of the Advanced English 9 course is to expose students to different genres (short stories, poetry, plays, epics, nonfiction, fiction, ect.) These different genres and the context of these various texts will expose the students to events, characters and situations they will reference later in their upper level high school courses, their AP exams and even into college. In this course students will be composing several essays and prompt based writing assignments. This course will be emphasized through class discussion on these genres. Advanced English 9 is a challenging class, as you already know with the summer assignment. You will have homework almost every night which will usually entail reading and completing either a dialectic journal, Major Works Data Sheets and/or annotating the text. This homework will usually be staying on top of your Independent Reading Assignments. The expectation is that you manage your time and study. DO NOT procrastinate as this will affect your work and thus your grade.