Course Description

This course is designed to extend the range of oral communication, reading, writing, and media literacy skills that students need for success in their secondary school academic programs and in their daily lives. Students will analyse literary texts from contemporary and historical periods, interpret and evaluate informational and graphic texts, and create oral, written, and media texts in a variety of forms. An important focus will be on the selective use of strategies that contribute to effective communication. This course is intended to prepare students for the compulsory Grade 11 university or college preparation course.

Course Code: ENG2D

Course Name: English, Grade 10

Department: English

Hours: 110

Credit Value: 1.0

Pre-requisites: English, Grade 9, Academic or Applied

Curriculum Policy Documents:

English, The Ontario Curriculum, Grades 9 and 10, 2007 (Revised)

http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/curriculum/secondary/english910currb.pdf

Development Date: August 28, 2021

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Overall Curriculum Expectations

By the end of this course, students will:
  1. Listening to Understand: listen in order to understand and respond appropriately in a variety of situations for a variety of purposes;
  2. Speaking to Communicate: use speaking skills and strategies appropriately to communicate with different audiences for a variety of purposes;
  3. Reflecting on Skills and Strategies: reflect on and identify their strengths as listeners and speakers, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful in oral communication situations.

By the end of this course, students will:
  1. Reading for Meaning: read and demonstrate an understanding of a variety of literary, informational, and graphic texts, using a range of strategies to construct meaning;
  2. Understanding Form and Style: recognize a variety of text forms, text features, and stylistic elements and demonstrate understanding of how they help communicate meaning;
  3. Reading With Fluency: use knowledge of words and cueing systems to read fluently;
  4. Reflecting on Skills and Strategies: reflect on and identify their strengths as readers, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful before, during, and after reading

By the end of this course, students will:
  1. Developing and Organizing Content: generate, gather, and organize ideas and information to write for an intended purpose and audience;
  2. Using Knowledge of Form and Style: draft and revise their writing, using a variety of literary, informational, and graphic forms and stylistic elements appropriate for the purpose and audience;
  3. Applying Knowledge of Conventions: use editing, proofreading, and publishing skills and strategies, and knowledge of language conventions, to correct errors, refine expression, and present their work effectively;
  4. Reflecting on Skills and Strategies: reflect on and identify their strengths as writers, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful at different stages in the writing process.

By the end of this course, students will:
  1. Understanding Media Texts: demonstrate an understanding of a variety of media texts;
  2. Understanding Media Forms, Conventions, and Techniques: identify some media forms and explain how the conventions and techniques associated with them are used to create meaning;
  3. Creating Media Texts: create a variety of media texts for different purposes and audiences, using appropriate forms, conventions, and techniques;
  4. . Reflecting on Skills and Strategies: reflect on and identify their strengths as media interpreters and creators, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful in understanding and creating media texts.
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Course Content

Unit Unit Description Time Frame
1. Macbeth   In this unit students will be exploring the language and themes of Shakespeare's Macbeth, as well as the reading strategies that will help them understand the play. The skills of planning, organizing, drafting, revising, and polishing a literary essay are examined, practiced, and assessed throughout this unit. 40 hrs
2. Media This unit focuses on Media Literacy skills were students will get a chance to get to know about what is Media & how is media used in real world in order to promote something. Students will discover the features such as elements of advertising in this unit. 27 hrs
3. Writing & Grammar In this unit, students will improve their quality of writing by enhancing their grammar & written skills by learning new ways of projecting texts. Students will get to know the very important literary devices that are a vital tool for writing stylish texts. At the end of this unit, students will have enough knowledge & experience of writing quality texts on their own. 40 hrs
4. Exam & Culminating 3 hrs
Total 110 hrs.

TEACHING AND LEARNING STRATEGIES:

A variety of teaching and learning strategies are used to allow students many opportunities to attain the necessary skills for success in this course and in future studies. In all activities, consideration will be taken to ensure that individual student’s multiple intelligences and learning strengths are addressed through the use of varied and multiple activities in each lesson.

Individual Small Group Whole Class
Chapter Questions Brainstorming Class Discussions
Note-taking Discussions Lectures
Self-Reflection Role-Playing Brainstorming
Researching Think-Pair-Share Co-Generative Planning
Organizational Strategies Peer-Editing Q and A’s
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Assessment Overview

STRATEGIES FOR ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION OF STUDENT PERFORMANCE
Assessment as Learning Assessment for Learning Assessment of Learning
Student Product   KWL Charts Entrance/Exit Slips Peer/Self Assessments Student Product   Group Inquiry Activities Mind Maps Chapter Questions Study Guides Textual Notes Writing Exercises Student Product   Assignments (With Rubrics)
Observation   Learning Logs Peer/Self Reflections Think/Pair/Share Anecdotal Notes of Observation Observation Group Inquiry Activities Directed Reading Creative Media Research Process Graphic Organizers Observation Oral Presentation (Rubric) Visual Assignments (Rubric)
Conversation   Peer Activities Teacher Student Conferences Descriptive Feedback Think/Pair/Share Conversation Class Debates & Discussions Oral Questioning Teacher/Student Conferences Group Inquiry Activities Listening Activities Conversation   Oral Presentations (Rubric)

The primary purpose of assessment and evaluation is to improve student learning. Assessment and evaluation is based on the Ministry of Education’s Growing Success policy document, which articulates the Ministry’s vision for how assessment and evaluation is practiced in Ontario schools.

Growing Success describes the three assessment types as follows:

  • Assessment as Learning: focuses on the explicit fostering of students’ capacity over time to be their own best assessors, but teachers need to start by presenting and modelling external, structured opportunities for students to assess themselves.
  • Assessment for Learning: the process of seeking and interpreting evidence for use by learners and their teachers to decide where the learners are in their learning, where they need to go, and how best to get there.
  • Assessment of Learning: the assessment that becomes public and results in statements or symbols about how well students are learning.

ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION

 EVALUATION SCHEME

A final grade (percentage mark) is calculated at the end of the course and reflects the quality of the student’s achievement of the overall expectations of the course, in accordance with the provincial curriculum.

The final grade will be determined as follows:

  • Seventy per cent (70%) of the grade will be based on evaluation conducted throughout the course. This portion of the grade should reflect the student’s most consistent level of achievement throughout the course, although special consideration should be given to more recent evidence of achievement.

Thirty per cent (30%) of the grade will be based on a final evaluation administered at or towards the end of the course. This evaluation will be based on evidence from one or a combination of the following: an examination, a performance, an essay, and/or another method of evaluation suitable to the course content. The final evaluation allows the student an opportunity to demonstrate comprehensive achievement of the overall expectations for the course.

Percentage of Final Mark Weight Evaluation Categories Assessment will be ongoing to inform the students of their performance and the opportunity for success. Four categories of the achievement chart are used to construct assessment/evaluation tasks and are balanced as follows:. K/U: Knowledge and Understanding     25% T/I: Thinking and Inquiry                       25% C: Communication                                   25% A: Application                                           25%
70% 70% Assignments
30% 10% Culminating Performance Task
20% Final Exam

LATE POLICY

Due dates are firm; unless the instructor notifies the class of a change in due dates for tests or assignments all students are expected to be present for their students and to hand in their work on time. Students who fail to show up on a test date will have to first provide a doctor’s note signed by the practitioner in order to have a redo date. Any other notes will not be accepted. Late assignments will be penalized 5% each day they are late (including weekends) to a maximum of 20%. In order to prevent late penalties from incurring students must provide a doctor’s note as well. Upon providing the instructor with a doctor’s note, a new due date will be negotiated. If the work is submitted past the new due date the late assignment penalty rule will come into effect.

 

PLAGIARISM

Plagiarism is a serious offense. It is defined as taking words, phrasing, sentence structure, or any other element of the expression of another person’s ideas, and using them as if they were your own.  Plagiarism is a violation of another person’s rights, whether the material taken is great or small.

Students will be assisted in developing strategies and techniques to avoid plagiarism. They need to be aware that plagiarized term work will be penalized and could result in a mark of zero.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Projector/Computer Dictionary/Thesaurus Youtube
Writing utensils Ruler Google Classroom/Drive
3 Ring Binder Research Databases  

Program Planning Considerations

PRINCIPLES UNDERLYING THE ENGLISH CURRICULUM

This course (which is based on the Ontario English curriculum) is based on the belief that language learning is critical to responsible and productive citizenship, and that all students can become successful language learners. The curriculum and this course are designed to provide students with the knowledge and skills that they need to achieve these goals. It aims to help students become successful language learners.

Successful language learners:

  • understand that language learning is a necessary, life-enhancing, reflective process;
  • communicate – that is, read, listen, view, speak, write, and represent – effectively and with confidence;
  • make meaningful connections between themselves, what they encounter in texts, and the world around them;
  • think critically;
  • understand that all texts advance a particular point of view that must be recognized, questioned, assessed, and evaluated;
  • appreciate the cultural impact and aesthetic power of texts;
  • use language to interact and connect with individuals and communities, for personal growth, and for active participation as world citizens.

Teaching Strategies

This course includes a variety of teaching strategies to help students become independent, self-aware and compassionate learners. The key to student success is providing structured and supportive opportunities for students to explore and evaluate their understanding and overall approach to learning. Students need to be empowered to become lifelong global learners in a digitial age who are willing and able to adapt to and evaluate the messages and thinking presented to them. Because of the nature of an online class, students will be challenged to develop their independent learning skills while also learning how to interact with their educational community through online platforms. Because the online format of the course influences the educational approach and capabilities of the instruction, students will be given multiple opportunities to develop the related skills. It is also expected that as students in a Grade 12 University Preparation class that they will begin the course with a good understanding of themselves as learners including their strengths, areas for improvement, and passions and interests. The courses in the Ontario curriculum are cumulative in nature, and therefore require students to build on their knowledge and skills over the entire course of their high school studies.

Students with English as a Second Language

In planning this course for students with English as a Second Language, the teacher will aim to create a supportive environment that nurtures the students’ self-confidence while also maintaining the integrity and standards of the ENG4U course requirements. Because listening and reading are typically the first of the four language skills gained by the ESL student, it will be important for students to have regular opportunity to practice their writing and speaking in an encouraging setting. The Assessment AS and FOR learning tasks will act as repeated opportunities for students to practice and strengthen their language skills in preparation for the Assessment OF learning tasks that are completed at the end of each Unit or Learning Cycle. Students are also encouraged to seek out supports and ask for extra help and guidance as they progress through the course. For students who begin the course with a strong grasp of the English language, it is an opportunity for them to encourage and support their classmates as opportunities arise through interactions online.

Healthy Relationships and Antidiscrimination in the Online Classroom

Every student is entitled to learn in a safe, respectful and caring environment, free from violence, discrimination and harassment. Because we live in a globalized and diverse world, a crucial life skill is the ability to work and live alongside individuals and communities which are different from our own. For this reason, antidiscrimination education is central to the Ontario curriculum and is intended to prepare students to be responsible citizens in their chosen post-secondary education and work life beyond.

Because there is a greater degree of anonymity to the online classroom, it is vital that all students understand and agree to abide by the healthy relationships and antidiscrimination policy in all interactions. This policy requires that all students:

  • think critically and compassionately as they engage with classmates, instructors and community members in order to help develop a positive community of learners in which all members can learn and grow.
  • communicate with respect and kindness when engaging in debate and discussion with the ideal of always seeking first to understand before being understood, and being willing to hold judgments and conclusions until all parties have had the opportunity to express and clarify their positions.
  • demonstrates patience as classmates seek to express their ideas and understanding of the course content and a willingness to ask clarifying questions as necessary.
  • work to the best of their abilities and make the most of the various opportunities given them in the class.

Any repeated negative behaviour will be subject to appropriate discipline and consequences.

The Role of the School Library

Although Sophio Academy does not have an official school library, students are encouraged to use e-books, local libraries, and archives to develop important research and inquiry skills. Students are also encouraged to explore, whenever possible, academic archives available online.

Academic Honesty and Plagiarism

Students enrolled in Sophio Academy must follow a high standard of academic honesty in all of their coursework. It is understood that we all 'stand on the shoulder of giants' but in order to prepare students for post-secondary studies, it is expected that they properly reference and cite the work of others in their course work and assignments using the proper recognized MLA formatting.

Sophio Academy desires to instill the values of honesty and hard work within our students while also teaching them how to engage in academic discussions and interactions with their intellectual community and honoring the work and ideas of others. Sophio Academy maintains and expects a high standard of academic honesty from all of its students as a vital and essential part of their character growth, academic practice and preparation for post-secondary studies.

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