This program is designed to boost overall reading/writing skills, improve classwork quality and college preparation results, and encourage a love for reading/writing.

• Writing will focus on thesis development, concise pointed writing, analysis of texts and persuasive writing prompts.

• Reading will focus on annotation skills, reading comprehension and short answer questions with evidence using text and ACT timed critical reading samples.

• Students will incorporate current assigned reading into sessions as well.

**High school book list; A Lesson Before Dying, Of Mice and Men, Peace Breaks Out, My Antonia, Hoop Dreams, Death of a Salesman, In Cold Blood, The Glass Menagerie, The Help, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, To Kill a Mockingbird

Choices on list are widely used in high school curriculum. Some selections have adult language and adult themes.