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Short Stories and Poetry

Essay Idea Organizer

Students will access various stories, poems and other media to connect to the central themes of identity, technology and utopia/dystopia. They will create a short story and a compare contrast essay

English 10

Lit Circle

Understanding the World Through Technology

Various activities centered around books that reveal larger issues in the world

The First Assignment

Exam Prep

Terms

Students create a symbol to represent how they feel about the world and then write a short fiction story that uses this as a theme

Romeo and Juliet or The Message: A Podcast

Example 1

The Heart Represents that good will overcome the bad

Rubric

Practice Provincial Exam

Example 2

The Kite symbolizes that the good flies over the bad

Media Unit

This unit looks at how media creates messages through imagery and students write a paragraph following the P.E.E Structure

Example 3

The tree symbolizes that good will grow out of the bad

Ad Techniques

Paragraph Structure

Adbusters

Colour Communication

Introduction Unit

Information for students regarding: discussions, plagiarism, why we study English, and the first assignment

Portfolio Piece

Portfolio Assignment

Portfolio Piece

Portfolio Pieces

Students will create an audio response to Romeo and Juliet or the Podcast

Social Media Campaign about the issue of their book

Criteria

  • Include examples from their final project and discuss how effective it was
  • Also, include Rules of Notice Handout to demonstrate close reading of their novel

Include one compare/contrast and one original composition examples from in-class practices

Include a self-assessment of each piece using the rubrics

1-2 Descriptive Paragraphs from their story that develops a character, idea, setting or theme

1. Compare/Contrast Essay

2. Polished Narrative from this section or from the beginning of the course

Student selects how they will present their understanding of the key concepts of this unit. They can select either the paragraph they created for this unit or use the principles learned to create his or her own adbuster (considering the message and how others may explain the message through Point, Evidence and Explain)

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