English Language Arts in Construction

This course provides students with the information, skills, and strategies necessary to read analytically, synthesize ideas from multiple texts, and respond by composing articulate pieces of writing that utilize the required elements of sentence structure, syntax, style, purpose, and tone as outlined in the 9-10 grade Reading, Writing, and Communicating standards.  The purpose of the ELAC1 course is to help students become effective readers and writers within the construction trades industry.  Using rhetorical principles, students will learn how to become critical thinkers and apply that knowledge to their writing and reading of contracts, codes, bids, and other required specifications of construction.