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An emphasis is placed on development of students as readers and writers and problem solvers. As readers, students set and achieve personal reading goals, build vocabulary, immerse themselves in literature, develop comprehension strategies, and respond to reading through writing and application. As writers, students reinforce the writing process and traits of effective writing as they produce essays, poetry, creative writing narratives, projects, and other genres of their choosing. Both oral and written communication skills are honed through writers’ workshops and public speaking (presentation skills) units. As problem solvers, students learn to apply strategies to rich math activities. These problems encompass a variety of difficulty levels in Numbers, Operations, Algebra, Geometry/Measurement, Data/Statistics/Probability. The computer lab will be used extensively to produce written work. Homework is generally limited to projects which students primarily work on in class, but need more time to finish by deadline.