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English 2D - Course Outline

Grade Ten Academic English

Course Description:

This course extends the range of analytic, reading, writing, oral communication, and thinking skills that students need for success in secondary school academic programs. Students will study and interpret challenging texts from contemporary and historical periods, including novels, poems, plays, and opinion pieces, and will analyse and create effective media works. An important focus will be the thoughtful use of spoken and written language.

Prerequisite: ENG 1D (Grade 9 Academic English)

Overall Expectations:

By the end of this course, students will:

• read and demonstrate an understanding of a range of literary and informational texts;
• identify and explain the effect of specific elements of style in a range of literary and informational texts;
• use a range of print and electronic sources to gather information and explore ideas;
• use a variety of organizational techniques to present ideas and information;
• revise written work, independently and collaboratively, with a focus on support for ideas and opinions, accuracy, clarity, coherence, and effective use of stylistic devices;
• use knowledge of vocabulary and language conventions to speak, write, and read competently and effectively for a variety of purposes and audiences
• use listening and oral communication skills for a variety of purposes and audiences;
• analyse a range of media forms.

*From The Ontario Curriculum Grades 9 and 10 English

Course Overview:

OSSLT Preparation
(concurrently with units until March)
OSSLT Date: March 2008
Resources: Literacy Test Preparation
Workbooks and handouts

Unit 1: September-October Novel Study
Lord of the Flies, William Golding (*Literary Essay assignment)

Unit 2: November Memoir Study
Sightlines 10 and other selections
(*Memoir assignment)

Unit 3:December-January (beginning) Anthology Studies 1

Short stories and media in Sightlines 10

Unit 4:January (mid) -March : Shakespearean Study
Macbeth, William Shakespeare
(*Literary Essay assignment)

Unit 5: March-April Anthology Studies 2
Poetry and drama in Sightlines 10 and other selections

Unit 6:May-June Novel Study
The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger

Ongoing Grammar Study
Primary Resource: Communication Circuit

Evaluation: