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Earl Haig ENG2D1 English Grade 10

Secondary Evaluation Profile and Outline Academic


School
Course Description/Rationale/Overview
This course extends 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 analyze 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. Students in Grade
10 will also write the provincial-wide Literacy Test in March and in-class preparation as well as extra after-school sessions will
be offered.

Prerequisite: English, Grade 9, Academic or Applied

Class Requirements Course Requirements/Department Policies


Student Responsibility Late Assignments
Students must seek assistance from Late assignments must be accompanied with a note signed by a parent or guardian
fellow students and the teacher for all stating the reason for tardiness of the assignment. The note must list the due date
work missed due to absence and must of the assignment and the actual date of submission.
make arrangements to complete missed If an assignment is handed in after it has been taken up/handed back, the student
work. may not receive a mark for it.

Missed Tests
It is the student’s responsibility to make arrangements, ahead of time, for any
tests/quizzes that are missed. If a student misses a test/quiz for an unforeseen
reason such as illness, the student must bring a note signed by a parent or guardian
and be prepared to write the test/quiz immediately upon return to school.

Assessment Strategies
Personal response journals, book responses, checklists, rubrics, supported opinion essays, performances and demonstrations, oral
presentations, role playing, teacher observation, timed in-class writing, teacher-student conferences, peer checklists, cooperative
learning, visual or graphic organizers, self-evaluation, problem solving.

Curriculum Strands and Weighting Achievement Categories Learning Skills


• Reading 30% • Knowledge and understanding • Works Independently
• Writing 30% • Thinking and inquiry • Team work
• Communication • Organization
• Oral literacy 20% • Work Habits
• Application
• Media Studies 20% These achievement categories are contained • Initiative
and evaluated in the curriculum strands. • Self -Regulation
• •

Evaluation FINAL MARK


TERM MARK BREAKDOWN
Each term will be based on: Year’s Work: 70%

• Personal response journals Final Summative Evaluation 30%


• Demonstration of critical thinking skills
• Responses to literature
• Analysis of literary and dramatic techniques
• Creative, persuasive and informational writing, for different audiences
and purposes, in a variety of forms
• Revising writing, with a focus on ideas, clarity, accuracy and coherence
• Editing to produce final drafts, using the writing process
Earl Haig ENG2D1 English Grade 10
Academic
Secondary Evaluation Profile and Outline English Department
School

Course Outline
Texts
Anthology: Sightlines 10

Reference: Resource Lines 9/10

Media: Selections from Mass Media and Popular Culture

Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet or Julius Caesar

Novels selected from: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, The Catcher in the Rye, Three-Day
Road, Of Mice and Men, Lord of the Flies, Great Expectations, Mr. Pip, Who Has Seen the Wind, The
Kite Runner or another appropriate novel.

Student-Produced Media Texts – Media studies are an important component of the English curriculum. The
following are examples of potential student-made media texts that provide students with opportunities to
demonstrate expectations: creating their own advertisements; movie posters; verbal-visual essays; a news report.

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