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SAT: WRITING AND LANGUAGE, READING AND ESSAY [2 HOURS AND 15 MINUTES]
Entering Grades 9-12 – This course will help each student prepare an individualized plan for SAT preparation, while providing extensive opportunities
to practice for the Writing and Language, Reading
and Essay sections of the test. Students will learn and practice strategies for all types of questions they may encounter. The class also covers planning for vocabulary enhancement and provides class time for skills development, including evidence-based interpretation, applying context in analysis, and understanding organization and structure for sentences, passages and essays.
• Students must purchase the SAT Premium Study Guide with 7 Practice Tests (Barron’s Test Prep) Thirtieth edition, ISBN-10: 1438012225 or ISBN-13: 978-1438012223.
WRITING
*Meets Common Core standards
EXPOSITORY READING AND WRITING*
Entering Grades 9-12 – Expository reading and writing skills will help students excel on the reading and writing portions of standardized tests, while also developing lifelong literacy and college readiness. In this course, students will learn to read critically, make predictions about texts, analyze content and rhetorical structures, and properly use materials from texts to support their own written arguments. Readings will be enhanced through expository writing, most often through timed essays. Students will learn to organize ideas and construct persuasive arguments that advance their own ideas with a developed voice.
Register at deanza.edu/academy 408.864.8817 • communityeducation@deanza.edu
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June 21-July 30
GRADES 9-12
COURSE DESCRIPTIONS