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| Global School. Educational Innovation

| BSID 882692

English (ENG4C)

Location

Ottawa - Ontario - Canada

+500 students approved this course

About the course

This course emphasizes the consolidation of the literacy, communication, and critical and creative thinking skills necessary for academic and daily life success. Students will analyze a range of challenging literary texts from various periods, countries, and cultures, interpret and evaluate informational and graphic texts, and create oral, written, and media texts in various forms. An important focus will be on using academic language coherently and confidently, selecting the reading strategies best suited to particular texts and particular purposes for reading, and developing greater control in writing. The course is intended to prepare students for university, college, or the workplace. Curriculum Policy Document: English, The Ontario Curriculum, Grades 11 and 12, 2007

Overrall expectations

By the end of the course you will:

Oral Communication

By the end of this course, students will:

  • Listening to Understand: listen in order to understand and respond appropriately in a
    variety of situations for a variety of purposes;
  • Speaking to Communicate: use speaking skills and strategies appropriately to communicate with different audiences for a variety of purposes;
  • 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

By the end of this course, students will:

  • 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;
  • Understanding Form and Style: Recognize a variety of text forms, text features, and stylistic elements and demonstrate understanding of how they help communicate meaning;
  • Reading With Fluency: use knowledge of words and cueing systems to read fluently;
  • Reflect on and identify their strengths as readers, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful before, during, and after reading.
Writing

By the end of this course, students will:

  • Developing and Organizing Content: Generate, gather, and organize ideas and information to write for an intended purpose and audience;
  • 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;
  •  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;
  • 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

By the end of this course, students will:

  • Understanding Media Texts: Demonstrate an understanding of a variety of media texts;
  • Understanding Media Forms, Conventions, and Techniques: Iidentify some media forms and
    explain how the conventions and techniques associated with them are used to create meaning
  • Creating Media Texts: Ccreate a variety of media texts for different purposes and
    audiences, using appropriate forms, conventions, and techniques;
  • Reflecting on Skills and Strategies: Rreflect 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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