Who am I? What is my role? Who do I want to be? English I opens with an opportunity to consider the multifaceted nature of your identity. You will wrestle with these questions in our discussions and in your writing as texts encourage you to build your empathetic imagination and find your voice. We build upon and refine foundational skills through focused classroom discussion, critical reading and thinking, literary analysis, and creative writing. The arc of the year brings you, through a series of ever-outward spiraling connections to a culminating understanding that all stories, all literature is also about you, no matter how different the setting, the conflict, and the relationships.