Language Arts/English Philosophy

The Language Arts Department at Kings Junior High and the English Department at Kings High School believe that language development is an on-going process essential for success in life. The philosophy of the departments is to encourage and to cultivate our students to be life-long readers, writers, speakers, listeners and critical thinkers. Well-developed language skills are vital for the lifelong learning required to live and work in a changing world. The Language Arts and English departments use a process approach to writing, and the teaching of reading and writing is interconnected.

The Language Arts and English teachers encourage students to become reflective, articulate, literate individuals who use language successfully for learning and communication in life. Our mission is to enable all students to use language in all of its forms to enrich the unique and diverse life of each individual and to develop the skills necessary to become effective communicators in our global community.

Our belief is that the critical study of language is a means by which students may better understand their own lives by looking at the literary texts of those who have lived before them. Our goal is to foster lifelong intellectual curiosity as students cultivate a broad range of literacies as capable, discriminating readers, competent and fluent writers, articulate speakers, active listeners, and critical thinkers. The Language Arts and English departments seek to create a challenging learning environment that encourages high expectation for success in life.