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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 Barron’s SAT Study Guide Premium, 2021-2022 (Reflects the 2021 Exam Update): 7 Practice Tests + Comprehensive Review + Online Practice (Barron’s Test Prep) Thirty-first Edition ISBN-13: 978-1506281605 or ISBN-10: 1506281605.
WRITING
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
These classes will be taught online.
*Meets Common Core standards
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June 13-July 22
GRADES 9-12
COURSE DESCRIPTIONS