English 10 Course Outline 2017-2018

Ms. M. Ng
Email: mng@sd38.bc.ca Phone number: 604-668-6400

Welcome to English 10
This course will encourage students to appreciate the power and beauty of the English language.
Students will look closely and examine a wide variety of Canadian and world literature. They will
also be able to understand and appreciate various genres non-fiction digital texts, and fiction
texts, such as short stories, novels, poetry and a Shakespearean play.

Students can expect to pay close attention to improve their writing and reading skills, as well as
developing their skills in critical thinking, research technique, and oral presentations and
performances.
English Language Arts Big Ideas

Text and story The exploration People Texts are Language

deepen of text and story understand text socially, shapes ideas
understanding of depends differently culturally, and influences
complex and understanding depending on geographically, others.
abstract ideas of ones identity, their worldviews and historically
others, and the and constructed
world perspectives

English 10 Curricular Competencies

Using oral, written, visual, and digital texts, students are expected individually and collaboratively
to be able to:

1. Access information for diverse purposes and from a variety of sources and evaluate its
relevance, accuracy and reliability.

2. Synthesize ideas from different text/sources.

3. Think critically, creatively, and reflectively to explore ideas within, between and beyond
texts.

4. Construct meaningful personal connections between self, text, and world.

5. Recognize how literary elements, techniques, and devices enhance and shape meaning
and impact.

6. Identify the role of story, narrative, and oral tradition in expressing First Peoples
perspectives, values, beliefs, and points of view.

7. Develop awareness of how First Peoples languages and texts reflect their culture,
knowledge, history, and worldview.

8. Respectfully exchange ideas and viewpoints from diverse perspectives to build shared
understanding and extend thinking.

9. Assess and refine texts to improve their clarity, effectiveness, and impact according to
purpose, audience, and message.

10. Use the conventions of Canadian spelling, grammar, and punctuation proficiently and as
appropriate to the context.
(For further details on curricular competencies, visit https://curriculum.gov.c.ca)
Formative and Summative Assessments
Students will have many opportunities to think and communicate their ideas
andthoughts through reading, writing,speaking and listening. Students will be
required to completeparagraphs, essays, stories, poems andcreative works,
reflective journals, presentations,and projects. Self, peer andteacher
assessments and feedback will be ongoing and students will haveopportunities
to revise and improve their work. Summative assessments such as in-class
compositions, unit tests, and portfolio will carry more weight in term marks.
Finally, this course includes a provincial examination worth 40% of students final
mark while class mark is worth 60%.

Term marks will be weighted as follows:

Term 1 (30 %) Term 2 (30 %) Term 3 (40 %)

NOTE: If a students work is not entirely complete at the time reports are issued,
an I for Incomplete or In Progress will be assigned. The student will be
allowed additional time to complete the work for a passing grade.

Expectations:

We are working in a community of respect. All members of the school community are
expected to respect themselves, each other, and the classroom rules developed at the
beginning of the year.

If you miss a class, or classes, you are expected to email Ms. Ng directly! Check
school website and ask a friend for missed work and assignments. Once you are in
class again, you are expected to hand in assignments promptly.

Do not take your phone out during class unless you have gotten permission from the
teacher. Otherwise, it will be taken away and you will need to retrieve it from an
administrator.

Supplies:
1) Duo Tang (journal/reflections) 3) Pen/Pencil/Eraser/White-out
2) 2inch Binder (lined and blank paper) 4) Thesaurus/Pocket Dictionary

Reading List
Novels: 1) Animal Farm by George Orwell 2) To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
3) The Chrysalids by John Wyndham 4) Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
5) The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie

Short Stories and Poetry: Responding to Literatures by Foote and Perkins

Play: Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

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Student name and contact information: email and phone number

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Parents names and contact information: email and phone numbers

(Final Note: Parents are encouraged to contact Ms. Ng if they have pertinent information about
their teenager via email mng@sd38.bc.ca or call 604-668-6400.)