Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Studies
Adult Day Programs
Credit Value:
School Year:
1
2014-
Contact Information:
Classroom: 205
By phone: 416-396-9621
By email: adam.wrestch@tdsb.on.ca
2015
Period: 1
Course Description
This course emphasizes the development of literacy, communication, and critical and creative thinking skills
necessary for success in academic and daily life. Students will analyse challenging literary texts from various
periods, countries, and cultures, as well as a range of informational and graphic texts, and create oral, written,
and media texts in a variety of forms. An important focus will be on using language with precision and clarity and
incorporating stylistic devices appropriately and effectively. The course is intended to prepare students for the
compulsory Grade 12 university or college preparation course.
Major Topics Addressed/Evaluations and Dates
Topic/Unit
Unit 1
Short Fiction & Literary
Schemes and Tropes
(22%)
Unit 2
Shakespeares Othello
(28%)
Independent Study
Unit
(20%)
Finals
Evaluations
Reading (5%)
Test - reading extracts of literature to identify and explain the rhetorical devices
used, and summarize a short story into 100-words.
Writing (7%)
Short story writing; then writing an expository essay of the rhetorical devices
used and the effect on the reader.
Media (5%)
Create a book cover for your short story that reflects its content and themes;
reflect on the target audience of your short story.
Oral Communication (5%)
Conference discussing the progress on short story.
Reading (5%)
Passage analysis test
Writing (8%) and Media (5%)
Compare and contrast essay between the play and a film adaptation.
Reading (5%) and Oral Communication (5%)
Dramatic reading of an assigned act in the play.
Media (5%) and Oral Communication (5%)
Present an analysis of a film that pairs with your novel in terms of theme, plot,
characterization, or any other point
Writing (5%) and Reading Task (5%)
Literary Essay of your independent novel study
Course Culminating Activity: Short Film Analysis (10% of final mark)
Contribution to a collaborative presentation (OC 5%)
Interpretation of short film (MS 5%)
Final Examination (20% of final mark)
Part 1: Essay (W 10%)
Part 2: Sight Passage (RLS 10%)
Timeline
Weeks 1-4
Week 5-7
On-Going:
Begins
Week 3,
Ends in
Week 6
Weeks 8-9
Strands
Reading and Literature Studies (RLS)
Writing (W)
Oral Communication (OC)
Media Studies (MS)
Culminating Activity: OC and MS Strands
Strand Weights
20%
20%
15%
15%
5% and 5%
Total
70%
30%
(30%)
Administrator will provide students with an official computerized admit slip. Students must present this
official slip to the teacher for re-entry to class.
Midterm Mark and Maintain Mark Date:
1.
Day 23 of the Quad (Mid-term mark): This offers you a chance to review your achievement
to date. At the teachers discretion, after reviewing your attendance and course participation,
you may be offered the chance to make up missed or alternate assignments. However, you
are not entitled to this opportunity.
2.
Day 28 of the Quad (Mark maintain date): You have five days after you receive the mid-term
mark to withdraw from a course, should you not want the mark to appear on your transcript.
The mark will appear and remain on the transcript on the sixth day after mid-terms.
3.
Day 40 of the Quad: With the end of the Quad, at the teachers discretion, after reviewing
your attendance and course participation, the teacher may offer you a chance to make up
missed or alternate assignments. Again, you are not entitled to this opportunity. Credit
Rescue and Credit Recovery are options, not entitlements, for students.
Duty to Report -- A Note on Legal Obligations and Reporting
Should you be experiencing personal difficulties, support is available to you via your teacher, the
Guidance Department, and the Administration at SCAS.
Should you approach your teacher, a member of Guidance, or an administrator with concerns, she or
he has a legal and professional duty to report to the relevant authorities, including the Children's Aid
Society (CAS), any issues dealing with the following:
1.
statements about harm to children ( e.g., any comments that suggest a child under the age
of 16 has been or may be harmed by physical abuse, emotional abuse, sexual abuse,
and/or neglect or exposure to unfit living conditions);
2.
statements about harm to others;
3.
statements about harm to self.
The school and the classroom are public spaces. This means that you do NOT have an inherent right to
privacy such as you would in your home. Anything you say directly to, or may be overheard by, school
personnel require that person to report to the appropriate authorities. For example, any admission of a
criminal offense or intent to commit such an offense, or acknowledgement of knowledge of criminal
offenses, requires the staff member to inform the Administration and contact the police.