Grade 10 Pre-IB English
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 Grades 11 and 12 International Baccalaureate (IB) English courses.
Texts Used
Short Stories: Points of View and teacher selected handouts
Novel: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Dramas: The Theban Plays by Sophocles; Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Writing Formats (Creative, Formal): teacher selected handouts
ENG2D7 Evaluation Strands:
The Grade 10 Pre-IB English Course has four strands that have been developed to provide students and teachers with an overall framework and a focus for instruction:
Oral Communication focuses on the identification and development of the skills and strategies effective listeners and speakers use to understand and interact with other in both informal and formal speaking situations.
Reading and Literature Studies helps students develop strategies to read with understanding, to read critically, to become familiar with various text forms and their characteristic elements, and to recognize the function and effects of various text features and stylistic devices.
Writing promotes students’ growth as confident writers and researchers who can communicate clearly and effectively using a range of forms and styles to suit specific purposes and audiences.
Media Studies explores the impact and influence of mass media and popular culture by examining texts such as films, songs, video games, advertisements, television shows and websites to develop students' understanding of and critical thinking about their immersive media landscape.
Overall Strand Expectations:
Oral Communication:
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.
Reading and Literature Studies:
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.
Writing
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.
Media Studies
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.
Assessment, Evaluation and Reporting:
Assessment is the collecting and analysing of data and information about a learner’s progress and guides efforts towards improvement. Assessments provide the necessary information to:
· diagnose and track student progress and achievement;
· provide feedback;
· develop students’ ability to assess their own progress;
· implement and improve instruction and programs for all students.
Evaluation is the application of judgment to the data collected and its analysis to place a “value” on the learner’s achievement. Evaluations provide the necessary information to:
· guide decisions about grading, student placement and certification;
· provide achievement data;
· communicate information for accountability and certification purposes to all the stakeholders.
Evaluation Breakdown:
Term Work (70%)
Final Summative (30%)
Oral Communication: 14%
Reading and Literature Studies: 21%
Writing: 21%
Media Studies: 14%
Culminating Activity: 20 %
Final Exam: 10 %
Learning Skills: (Works Independently, Teamwork, Organization, Work Habits and Initiative) will be assessed, evaluated and reported separately from the achievement grade on the report card.
Units of Study:
Titles/Topics
Timing (110 Hours)
Short Stories and Essays: Examining the Craft 28 hours
Novel: Morality, Ethics and Class Struggle 26 hours
Dramas: Individual Choices with Social Implications 30 hours
Poetry: The Internal and External Struggle towards Goodness 16 hours
Culminating Activity: Connecting the Threads 10 hours
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 Grades 11 and 12 International Baccalaureate (IB) English courses.
Texts Used
Short Stories: Points of View and teacher selected handouts
Novel: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Dramas: The Theban Plays by Sophocles; Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Writing Formats (Creative, Formal): teacher selected handouts
ENG2D7 Evaluation Strands:
The Grade 10 Pre-IB English Course has four strands that have been developed to provide students and teachers with an overall framework and a focus for instruction:
Oral Communication focuses on the identification and development of the skills and strategies effective listeners and speakers use to understand and interact with other in both informal and formal speaking situations.
Reading and Literature Studies helps students develop strategies to read with understanding, to read critically, to become familiar with various text forms and their characteristic elements, and to recognize the function and effects of various text features and stylistic devices.
Writing promotes students’ growth as confident writers and researchers who can communicate clearly and effectively using a range of forms and styles to suit specific purposes and audiences.
Media Studies explores the impact and influence of mass media and popular culture by examining texts such as films, songs, video games, advertisements, television shows and websites to develop students' understanding of and critical thinking about their immersive media landscape.
Overall Strand Expectations:
Oral Communication:
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.
Reading and Literature Studies:
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.
Writing
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.
Media Studies
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.
Assessment, Evaluation and Reporting:
Assessment is the collecting and analysing of data and information about a learner’s progress and guides efforts towards improvement. Assessments provide the necessary information to:
· diagnose and track student progress and achievement;
· provide feedback;
· develop students’ ability to assess their own progress;
· implement and improve instruction and programs for all students.
Evaluation is the application of judgment to the data collected and its analysis to place a “value” on the learner’s achievement. Evaluations provide the necessary information to:
· guide decisions about grading, student placement and certification;
· provide achievement data;
· communicate information for accountability and certification purposes to all the stakeholders.
Evaluation Breakdown:
Term Work (70%)
Final Summative (30%)
Oral Communication: 14%
Reading and Literature Studies: 21%
Writing: 21%
Media Studies: 14%
Culminating Activity: 20 %
Final Exam: 10 %
Learning Skills: (Works Independently, Teamwork, Organization, Work Habits and Initiative) will be assessed, evaluated and reported separately from the achievement grade on the report card.
Units of Study:
Titles/Topics
Timing (110 Hours)
Short Stories and Essays: Examining the Craft 28 hours
Novel: Morality, Ethics and Class Struggle 26 hours
Dramas: Individual Choices with Social Implications 30 hours
Poetry: The Internal and External Struggle towards Goodness 16 hours
Culminating Activity: Connecting the Threads 10 hours