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Department Highlights
- The primary mission of the department is to create lifelong readers and writers as they recognize the power of literacy in their lives.
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Students consistently place in local, state and individual writing competitions:
- Montgomery County Poetry Contest
- Sinclair Creative Writing Contest
- Holocaust Writing Contest
- Scholastic Writing Awards
- Robert J. Fox State Award
- CJ conducts a school-wide writing contest and sponsors area-wide contests for 5-6th graders, and 7-8th graders.
- 96 percent of CJ’s AP English students scored above the national average on last year's exam.
- National and State recognition for Poetry Out Loud competition.
- CJ students have received the distinct honor of a "Superior" rating from the National Council of Teachers of English.
- Students write, edit, and publish a monthly newspaper, creative writing anthology and yearbook. (Download the form to place a tribute ad in the 2016-2017 yearbook | examples here).
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Juniors write an integrated Catholic justice research paper in English and Religion courses.