Course+Outline

**Senior 1 English Language Arts** **Semester 1, 2011-2012** **Instructor: Shari Anderson**
 * Hapnot Collegiate Institute**
 * Final Exam 30%**
 * Daily Work 70%**

Reading 20% Writing 20% Speaking, Listening 15% Viewing, Representing 15%

The following concepts, tasks and skills will be used to measure the above outcomes: __Reading__ __Writing__ __Speaking and Listening__ __Viewing and Representing__
 * Daily silent reading
 * Vocabulary
 * Short story unit
 * Shakespeare- A Midsummer Night’s Dream
 * Novel study- Night
 * Novel study- Of Mice and Men
 * Journal Writing
 * Daily (almost) language workouts
 * Writing process
 * Audience and purpose
 * prewriting, draft, revise, edit, final, conventions
 * essay format, transitioning, using text for support
 * Writing traits
 * Ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, conventions
 * Alternative genre writing as time permits
 * Prepared speeches with visuals
 * Spontaneous speeches
 * Other oral presentation as time permits such as debates and drama
 * Film study
 * “Cartoon” study
 * Elements of art to communicate
 * Curriculum related representative projects