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English 10-1

Your Instructor is Sharon Collin

  Course Outline:  

  • 70% Module Assignments
  • 30% School Final Exam
Module 1    Communication is the Key
Module 2    The Narrative Voice
Module 3    Media
Module 4

   Poetry and Film
   Film Choices:

  • Cool Runnings
  • What's Eating Gilbert Grape
  • Pay it Forward
  • Cast Away
  • Finding Forrester
  • Miss Congeniality
  • October Sky
Module 5    The Novel (Animal Farm) and the Drama   
Module 6    Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Module 7    Journey's End
   School Final Exam         Allow for 2 hours to write this exam

  General Instructions:  

  • Always start with the coiled Module. This will guide you to all other resources.
  • The Assignment Booklets have been modified. Questions / pages have been omitted. However, the student is responsible to understand ALL of the material covered in the Module Book.
  • Any Oral Assignments can be read directly to your teacher, or submit a voice recording by email.
  • Do NOT complete any of the Portfolio assignments found in the module.
  • DO complete the Journal Entries and Writing Assignments found in the module.
  • You are encouraged to use a computer for all long answer and essay responses. Attach your work in the space provided   

 

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English 10-2

Your Instructor is Sharon Collin

  Course Outline:  

  • 50% Module Assignments
  • 20% Quizzes
  • 30% School Final Exam
Module 1    Assessing the Challenge
Module 2    Media Influences
Quiz 1  
Module 3    Expressing Yourself Effectively
Module 4

   Expanding Your Reading and Writing
   Novel Choices:

  • DARE
  • Deathwatch
  • Speak
Quiz 2  
Module 5    Understanding Ourselves and Others     
Module 6

   Visual Representations
    Movie Choices:

  • Castaway
  • Cool Runnings
  • Finding Forrester
  • Miss Congeniality
  • Pay it Forward
  • What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Quiz 3  
Module 7    Encounters with Nature
  Final Exam       Allow for 2 hours to write this exam

  General Instructions:  

  • Always start with the coiled Module. This will guide you to all other resources.
  • The Assignment Booklets have been modified. Questions / pages have been omitted. However, the student is responsible to understand ALL of the material covered in the Module Book.
  • Any Oral Assignments can be read directly to your teacher, or submit a voice recording by email.
  • Do NOT complete any of the Portfolio assignments found in the module.
  • DO complete the Journal Entries and Writing Assignments found in the module.
  • You are encouraged to use a computer for all long answer and essay responses. Attach your work in the space provided

 

Accessing Audio/Multimedia 'CD':   

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English 20-1

Your Instructor is Sharon Collin

  Course Outline:  

  • 50% Module Assignments
  • 20% Quizzes
  • 30% School Final Exam
Module 1    You and Language
Module 2    Travelling Through Life
Quiz 1  
Module 3    No One is an Island
Module 4    The Information Age
Quiz 2  
Module 5    Shakespeare's Macbeth
Module 6

   Stage and Screen
   The Play: The Glass Menagerie
   Movie Choices:

  • Of Mice and Men
  • Castaway
  • Finding Forrester
  • The Green Mile
  • Remember the Titans
  • Pay it Forward
  • Rain Man
  • Miss Congeniality
Quiz 3  
Module 7    A Novel Idea   (Lord of the Flies)
  Final Exam      Allow for 2 hours to write this exam   

  General Instructions:  

  • Always start with the coiled Module. This will guide you to all other resources.
  • The Assignment Booklets have been modified. Questions / pages have been omitted. However, the student is responsible to understand ALL of the material covered in the Module Book.
  • Any Oral Assignments can be read directly to your teacher, or submit a voice recording by email.
  • Do NOT complete any of the Portfolio assignments found in the module.
  • DO complete the Journal Entries and Writing Assignments found in the module.
  • You are encouraged to use a computer for all long answer and essay responses. Attach your work in the space provided

   Accessing Audio/Multimedia 'CD':   

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English 20-2

Your Instructor is Sharon Collin

  Course Outline:  

  • 50% Module Assignments
  • 20% Quizzes
  • 30% School Final Exam
Module 1    Looking Ahead
Module 2    Roles and Relationships
Quiz 1  
Module 3    Making Choices
   Novel: Of Mice and Men
Module 4    Media and Technology Influences
Quiz 2  
Module 5    Understanding and Acceptance
Module 6

   Characters in Conflict
   Feature Film: October Sky
Quiz 3  
Final Exam    Allow for 2 hours to write this exam

  General Instructions:  

  • Always start with the coiled Module. This will guide you to all other resources.
  • The Assignment Booklets have been modified. Questions / pages have been omitted. However, the student is responsible to understand ALL of the material covered in the Module Book.
  • Any Oral Assignments can be read directly to your teacher, or submit a voice recording by email.
  • Do NOT complete any of the Portfolio assignments found in the module.
  • DO complete the Journal Entries and Writing Assignments found in the module.
  • You are encouraged to use a computer for all long answer and essay responses. Attach your work in the space provided

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English 30-1

Your Instructor is Sharon Collin

  Course Outline   (30% Diploma Exam + 70% School Mark):
School Mark:

  • 50% Module Assignments
  • 20% Quizzes
  • 30% School Final Exam
Module 1    Language and Communication
Module 2    The Narrative Voice
Quiz 1  
Module 3    Thinking Critically
Module 4    The Poet's Craft
Quiz 2  
Module 5    A Study in Drama
       "Death of a Salesman"
Module 6    Shakespeare's "Hamlet"
Quiz 3  
Module 7

   A Novel Experience

   Novel Choices:

  • The Cellist of Sarajevo
  • The Bean Trees
  • The Mosquito Coast
  • The Outsider
  • Night
  • The Wars
  • Saint Maybe
  Final Exam      Allow for 3 hours to write this exam   

  General Instructions:  

  • Always start with the coiled Module. This will guide you to all other resources.
  • The Assignment Booklets have been modified. Questions / pages have been omitted. However, the student is responsible to understand ALL of the material covered in the Module Book.
  • Any Oral Assignments can be read directly to your teacher, or submit a voice recording by email.
  • Do NOT complete any of the Portfolio assignments found in the module.
  • DO complete the Journal Entries and Writing Assignments found in the module.
  • You are encouraged to use a computer for all long answer and essay responses. Attach your work in the space provided

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English 30-2

Your Instructor is Sharon Collin

Course Outline:   (30% Diploma Exam + 70% School Mark)
School Mark:

  • 50% Module Assignments
  • 20% Quizzes
  • 30% School Final Exam
Module 1    Looking Ahead
Module 2    Literary Experience
Quiz 1  
Module 3    Media and Technology
Module 4

   The Fictional World
     Novel Choices:  

  • Into the Wild
  • Finding Forrester
  • Fallen Angels
  • The Kite Runner
  • Alicia, My Story
  • A Thousand Splendid Suns
  • The Suspect
  • Tuesdays With Morrie
  • Medicine River
  • Letters from Wingfield Farm
  • Fahrenheit 451

   Movie Choices:

  • The Green Mile
  • The Shawshank Redemption
  • Rainman
  • Chocolat
  • The Blind Side
  • The Matrix
  • Forrest Gump
  • Pay it Forward

     
Quiz 2  
Module 5    Functional Communication
Module 6

   The Power of Drama        (Bethune)
Quiz 3  
Module 7    The Road Ahead
  Final Exam      Allow for 3 hours to write this exam.

   General Instructions:   

  • Always start with the coiled Module. This will guide you to all other resources.

  • The Assignment Booklets have been modified. Questions / pages have been omitted. However, the student is responsible to understand ALL of the material covered in the Module Book.

  • Any Oral Assignments can be read directly to your teacher, or submit a voice recording by email.

  • Do NOT complete any of the Portfolio assignments found in the module.

  • DO complete the Journal Entries and Writing Assignments found in the module.

  • You are encouraged to use a computer for all long answer and essay responses. Attach your work in the space provided

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