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Language is fundamental to thinking, learning, and communicating in all cultures. The skilled use of language is associated with many opportunities in life, including further education, work, and social interaction. As students come to understand and use language more fully, they are able to enjoy the benefits and pleasures of language in all its formsfrom reading and writing, to literature, theatre, public speaking, film, and other media.
The English Language Arts 8 to 10 curriculum provides students with the opportunity to study literary and informational (including technical) communications, and the mass media and thereby experience the power of language. Students are presented with a window into the past, a complex portrayal of the present, and questions about the future. They also come to understand language as a human system of communicationdynamic and evolving, but also systematic and governed by rules.
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Revised: January 25, 1999
