This course will require students to explore various types of literature and develop their writing skills. Students will sharpen their grammar skills with various writing assignments that reinforce capitalization, sentence structure, sentence combining, usage, punctuation, and parts of speech. Students will also be required to follow the five steps of the Writing Process (prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing). The types of writing that the student will explore are personal narrative writing, persuasive essay, compare/contrast essay, creative writing, interpretive essay, character sketch, and research reports. As the students go through the lessons, they will follow the instructed correct format for each writing assignment. Then they will apply the knowledge that they have learned by producing the required written assignment at the end of the lesson. Students will also respond to literature and create original stories and poems of their own.