The 9 Throughlines:
- How can you connect your own personal experiences, interests, passions, or ideals to your work in English?
- How does writing help your reading, and how does reading help your writing?
- How do the different elements of a piece of writing work together to make a whole?
- In what ways is literature true to life? In what ways is it not true to life?
- What common themes (ideas, problems, truths) can we find in literature from different places and times?
- What is a hero?
- How does keeping a Reading Response Journal help you be a better reader, writer, and thinker?
- What do people need to do in order to work well together?
- How can you make your work better?
