Students will read narrative and informational text while analyzing their structure and elements.  Using the writing process, students will compose various paragraphs as well as a research presentation.  Students will learn and apply comprehension skills, vocabulary skills, grammar and usage in the context of improving their reading and writing skills.  This course is designed to continue the development of language arts, to reinforce and expand on paragraph writing, and to have students read short stories and novels for structure and literary analysis.