ENG2D – English – Grade 10
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 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. This course is intended to prepare students for the compulsory Grade 11 university or college preparation course.
$450.00
*Course outline is subject to change
Overall Curriculum Expectations
Throughout the course, students will be provided with numerous and varied opportunities to demonstrate the full extent of their achievement of the curriculum expectations across all four categories of knowledge and skills. Evaluations will reflect each student’s most consistent level of achievement. The overall learning expectations for this course are encompassed in the following strands:
ORAL COMMUNICATION
- Listen to Understand:Â Listen in order to understand and respond appropriately in a variety of situations for a variety of purposes.
- Speak to Communicate: Use speaking skills and strategies appropriately to communicate with different audiences for a variety of purposes.
- Reflect 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
- 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 an understanding of how they help communicate meaning.
- Reading with Fluency: Use knowledge of works and cueing systems to read fluently.
- 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
- 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, use a variety of Literary, information, 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
- Understanding Media Texts: demonstrate an understanding of a variety of media texts.
- 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.
- Creating Media Texts: create a variety of media texts for different purposes and audiences; use appropriate forms, conventions, and techniques.
- 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.
Outline of Course Content
Throughout this unit, you will explore the powerful stories shared through non-fiction texts. You’ll learn essential strategies for succeeding in an online learning environment, including how to avoid plagiarism, write engaging news reports, and craft compelling anecdotes and memoirs. This unit will also teach you how to tell stories visually through photographs and understand the key differences between biographies and autobiographies. Along the way, you’ll reflect on your own growth as a reader and writer, enhancing your comprehension skills and developing a deeper appreciation for how real-world stories shape our understanding of ourselves and others.
Unit 1 Assessment Of Learning – Photo Biography (P/C)
In this unit, you’ll immerse yourself in the world of fiction by reading, listening to, watching, and even creating songs, poetry, narratives, films, and short stories. You will explore the diverse techniques writers and creators use to tell fictional stories, and analyze how these methods capture reader’s and viewer’s imaginations. As you engage with a wide variety of fictional works, you’ll not only learn to recognize storytelling strategies but also reflect on how these stories shape your understanding of yourself and the world. Throughout this journey, you’ll search for answers to a central question about the powerful influence of fiction in our lives.
Unit 2 Assessment of Learning: Writing a Short Story & Reflection (P)
In this unit, you’ll explore and evaluate a wide variety of performance texts, both fictional and non-fictional. You’ll investigate how the books we read and the stories we perform shape our identities and influence our understanding of the world around us. Through engaging with rants, speeches, videos, treatments, storyboards, trailers, and pitches, you’ll discover the power of performance to express ideas and persuade audiences. By the end of the unit, you will apply these insights to create and present a compelling pitch for your own movie concept, refining your persuasive techniques and storytelling skills along the way.
Unit 3 Assessment of Learning: Pitch your Movie! (P/C)
Unit 3 Assessment of Learning: Speech Writing & Presentation (P/O)
In this unit, you will dive into the world of novel reading as you prepare to craft a thoughtful literary essay. You will apply previously learned comprehension strategies to deepen your understanding of the text, while exploring how novels can inspire emotional and intellectual growth. You’ll learn how to approach essay topics with clarity, construct meaningful sentences and paragraphs, and effectively organize your ideas to build persuasive arguments. By the end of this unit, you will not only understand how a well-written essay communicates purpose but also appreciate how novels can profoundly move and connect with readers, both academically and emotionally.
Unit 4 Assessment of Learning: Analysis Essay (P)
Unit 4 Assessment of Learning: TED Talk Presentation (O)
Throughout this course, you’ve experienced and explored many diverse texts and enhanced your reading, writing, communication and media skills. In this final culminating task unit, you’ll showcase what you’ve learned by selecting your preferred method of communication and articulating the growth you’ve experienced as a reader, thinker, writer, and listener. You will also reflect on the main idea: how do the texts with which we engage impact and influence us and our place in the world? You’ll do this by selecting FIVE texts, two fiction & non fiction, and one performance text, and making connections between the texts and the core question.
Culminating Activity – How Literature Shapes Us (P/O/C)
Final Exam – Covering all overall curriculum expectations (P)