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English 1DE - Course Outline

pre-IB enriched Grade nine

Course description

This enriched course for students in the pre-International Baccalaureate programme
emphasizes high analytical writing, reading, oral communication and thinking skills that
students need for success in secondary academic programmes generally and the IB programme particularly. Students will study and interpret texts from contemporary and historical periods,
including novels, a play, poems, short stories and they will investigate and create media works.
The course content and skills are foundational for pre IB Enriched grade ten and the IB1 (grade 11) and IB2 (grade 12) years.

Prerequisite: Acceptance into the IB Programme.

September-October: Mythology

• Classical Greek and Roman mythology; survey of short myths, and
  The Iliad by Homer and The Aeneid by Virgil
• Old English epic Beowulf
  
  Texts: Faces of Myth, Book of Myths, Masterpieces of Literature

October: Short Prose Fiction

• A selection of short stories, including Canadian titles

  Texts: Short Stories 17 and Sightlines

November-January Novel Study 1

• Charles Dickens- Great Expectations

February-March Drama Study

• Shakespeare- Romeo and Juliet
• Poetry Study - focus on the lyric

April-May Novel Study 2

• Harper Lee- To Kill a Mockingbird

  Novel Study 3

• John Steinbeck- Of Mice and Men

May-June Summative Evaluation and Examination

Evaluation: