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SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

COURSE OUTLINE for
ENGLISH 30-1
011-01
"What's another word for thesaurus?"
~Steven Wright.
Instructor: Mr. C.1. Ng
Class Time:
Office:
Email:
Phone:
Office Hours: by appointment (arrange this before or after class or by email)

Course Description
This course is designed to enhance the students` communication skills in the areas oI reading,
writing, listening and speaking. It is expected that students will identiIy connections between
their own ideas, experiences, and knowledge to the literature in which they will be exposed
within the class. Through interaction with the text, students will use language to explore
thoughts, ideas, Ieelings, and experiences to prepare Ior their roles in the world.
There are a number oI activities designed to strengthen students` speaking, listening, viewing,
representing, reading, and writing skills. Some oI these activities, including oral reading, groups
discussions, role-playing, video and oral presentations will be implemented throughout the
course. In addition, there will be emphasis on reading comprehension, sentence structure and
mechanics. Thus, students will be expected to participate in grammar, punctuation, usage, and
vocabulary exercises.

Required Texts and Readings
The Broadview Anthology of Contemporary English Literature concise ed.
Daniel DeIoe, oll Flanders (OxIord World`s Classics)
Jonathan SwiIt, Gullivers Travels (OxIord World`s Classics)
Sarah Robinson Scott, A Description of illenium Hall (Broadview)
Course handouts, distributed over the course oI the term, will contain other readings.

Content
Unit 1: Departmental Introduction
Unit 2: Composition Writing
Unit 3: Short Stories 'Story And Structure and 'Heath
Unit 4: Shakespearean Drama Hamlet
Unit 5: Modern Drama 'A Doll`s House

Unit 6: The Novel WindIlower

Unit 7: Personal Response to Literature

Evaluation
Term grades are cumulative and worth 50 oI the course.
Term grades are determined as Iollows:

Participation 10
Assignments 10
Quizzes 10
Projects 20
Tests 20
Essays 30

%he instructor reserves the right to deduct marks (5" per day) for the
unexcused late submission of assignments.

Class participation is based upon student attendance, student contribution to class discussions,
and student conduct while class is in session

Plagiarism
Using any source whatsoever without clearly documenting it is a serious academic oIIense.
Consequences include Iailure on the assignment, essay, or project, Iailure oI the course and
possible suspension or expulsion Irom the school.
Please reIer to the Iollowing inIormation on plagiarism: http://www.plagiarism.org/

Outcomes
Five general student learning outcomes act as the Ioundation oI the program.
$tudents will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent.

General Outcome 1
To explore thoughts, ideas, Ieelings and experiences
General Outcome
To comprehend literature and other texts in oral, print, visual and multimedia Iorms, and
respond personally, critically and creatively
General Outcome 3
To manage ideas and inIormation
General Outcome 4
To create oral, print, visual and multimedia texts, and enhance the clarity and artistry oI
communication
General Outcome 5
To respect, support and collaborate with others.

This course outline serves only as a guide and as such is subfect to change with notice deemed
necessary by the instructor. $hould issues or questions arise that are not covered here, any
instructions given should be considered fust as official as this printed document.

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1UNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
COURSE OUTLINE for
LANGUAGE ARTS 9
011-01
"What's another word for thesaurus?"
~Steven Wright.
Instructor: Mr. C.1. Ng
Class Time:
Office:
Email:
Phone:
Office Hours: by appointment (arrange this before or after class or by email)

Course Description
This course is designed to enhance the students` communication skills in the areas oI reading,
writing, listening and speaking. It is expected that students will identiIy connections between
their own ideas, experiences, and knowledge to the literature in which they will be exposed
within the class. Through interaction with the text, students will use language to explore
thoughts, ideas, Ieelings, and experiences to prepare Ior their roles in the world.
There are a number oI activities designed to strengthen students` speaking, listening, viewing,
representing, reading, and writing skills. Some oI these activities, including oral reading, groups
discussions, role-playing, video and oral presentations will be implemented throughout the
course. In addition, there will be emphasis on reading comprehension, sentence structure and
mechanics. Thus, students will be expected to participate in grammar, punctuation, usage, and
vocabulary exercises.

Texts and Readings
Elements of Writing Holt, Rinehart, Winston
The Language of Literature McDougal Littell

Content

Unit 1: Narrative Writing/Autobiographical Essays

Unit 2: InIormational Paragraph and Essay Writing
Unit 3: Compare/Contrast Writing (Paragraphs and Essays)
Unit 4: Language Usage with Emphasis on Verb Tense Consistency, Pronoun Usage, Parallel
Structure, and Word Choice
Unit 5: Composition Revision Strategies and Grammar/Punctuation Review with Introduction oI
Clauses

Unit 6: The Short Story. Emphasis on Reading Strategies, Literary Terms, Vocabulary Context
Clues, and Common Word Bases and PreIixes
Unit 7: Historical Fiction and NonIiction in Literature. Emphasis on Support oI 8
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Grade
American History Study oI AIrican-American History, Native American History, and the
Civil War
Unit 8: The Novel (Outside reading oI one book per month as part oI this study a study oI The
Diary of Anne Frank may also be included).
Unit 9: Poetry. Emphasis on Elements and Meaning oI Poems and on Student Writing oI Poems.

Evaluation
Term grades are cumulative and worth 80 (4 terms x 20 each term) oI the total course mark
There is an end oI the year Final Exam worth 20 oI the overall grade

Term 1 20
Term 2 20
Term 3 20
Term 4 20
Final Exam 20

Total 100

Grades Ior each term are determined as Iollows:

Participation 10
Assignments 15
Quizzes 15
Projects 30
Tests 30

Total 100

%he instructor reserves the right to deduct marks (5" per day) for the
unexcused late submission of assignments and projects.

Class participation is based upon student attendance, student contribution to class discussions,
and student conduct while class is in session

Plagiarism
Using any source whatsoever without clearly documenting it is a serious academic oIIense.
Consequences include Iailure on the assignment, essay, or project, Iailure oI the course and
possible suspension or expulsion Irom the school.
Please reIer to the Iollowing inIormation on plagiarism: http://www.plagiarism.org/

Outcomes
Five general student learning outcomes act as the Ioundation oI the program.
$tudents will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent.

.To comprehend various kinds of texts
.To manage ideas and information
.To communicate cIearIy
.To respect and support others
.To expIore thoughts and ideas

This course outline serves only as a guide and as such is subfect to change with notice deemed
necessary by the instructor. $hould issues or questions arise that are not covered here, any
instructions given should be considered fust as official as this printed document.