Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School

Department Head: Katelyn Gleason

Success in our world today depends more and more on communication skills. The DY English Department helps our students hone these necessary skills for effective communication: thoughtful reading, thinking, analyzing, and writing. By reading and interacting with literature, engaging in writing assignments, and participating in academic discourse, we introduce students to important ideas and skill-sets that will help them explore their identity and the world around them. 

The DY English department prepares its students to communicate in society and facilitates analytical skills that foster college and career readiness.  To fulfill that responsibility, the department’s instruction and curriculum helps students to develop skills to communicate and present ideas clearly and persuasively.  Incorporating the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks for English Language Arts and Literacy and DY’s core values, students will become college and career ready by learning to:

• Demonstrate independence
• Build strong content knowledge
• Respond to the varying demands of audience, task, purpose, and discipline
• Comprehend as well as critique
• Value evidence
• Use technology and digital media strategically and capably
• Understand other perspectives and cultures
   

The English Department’s curriculum and instruction will help students to develop increased abilities to make connections and to recognize patterns in order to construct meaning. Learning experiences will enable students to become proficient in effective group skills including the ability to collaborate, negotiate, and discuss in an effective and respectful manner. Students will interpret the meaning of literary works, both fiction and non-fiction, films and media through appropriate analytical techniques. Students will gain communication skills that will enable them to be successful in college, their careers, and beyond.