The purpose of this English course is to offer students the opportunity to catch up on the English for their grade level; but more importantly, it is offered so they may succeed as contributing members of the workforce and society. 

The purpose of this English course is to offer students the opportunity to catch up on the English for their grade level; but more importantly, it is offered so they may succeed as contributing members of the workforce and society.

Tell me a story.
In this century, and moment, of mania,
Tell me a story.

Make it a story of great distances, and starlight.
The name of the story will be Time,
But you must not pronounce its name.
Tell me a story of deep delight.

Robert Penn Warren, Southern American Poet