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Course Outline
Course: ENG3E
Teacher:
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www.ugdsb.on.ca/westside
Program Leader: A. Willoughby
Course Description:
This course emphasizes the development of literacy, communication, and critical and creative thinking skills
necessary for success in the workplace and in daily life. Students will study the content, form, and style of a
variety of contemporary informational, graphic, and literary texts; and create oral, written, and media texts in a
variety of forms for practical purposes. An important focus will be on using language clearly and accurately in a
variety of formal and informal contexts. The course is intended to prepare students for the compulsory Grade
12 workplace preparation course.
Prerequisite: English, Grade 10, Applied or Essential
Overall Course Expectations
Oral Communication:
1. Listening to Understand: listen in order to understand and respond appropriately in a variety of situations for
a variety of purposes;
2. Speaking to Communicate: use speaking skills and strategies appropriately to communicate with different
audiences for a variety of purposes;
3. Reflecting on Skills and Strategies: reflect on and identify their strengths as listeners and speakers, areas for
improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful in oral communication situations..
Reading and Literature Studies:
1. Reading for Meaning: read and demonstrate an understanding of a variety of informational, graphic, and
literary texts, using a range of strategies to construct meaning;
2. Understanding Form and Style: recognize a variety of text forms, text features, and stylistic elements and
demonstrate understanding of how they help communicate meaning;
3. Reading With Fluency: use knowledge of words and cueing systems to read fluently;
4. Reflecting on Skills and Strategies: reflect on and identify their strengths as readers, areas for improvement,
and the strategies they found most helpful before, during, and after reading.
Writing:
1. Developing and Organizing Content: generate, gather, and organize ideas and information to write for an
intended purpose and audience;
2. Using Knowledge of Form and Style: draft and revise their writing, using a variety of informational, graphic,
and literary forms and stylistic elements appropriate for the purpose and audience;
3. Applying Knowledge of Conventions: use editing, proofreading, and publishing skills and strategies, and
knowledge of language conventions, to correct errors, refine expression, and present their work effectively;
4. Reflecting on Skills and Strategies: reflect on and identify their strengths as writers, areas for improvement,
and the strategies they found most helpful at different stages in the writing process.
Media Studies:
1. Understanding Media Texts: demonstrate an understanding of a variety of media texts;
2. Understanding Media Forms, Conventions, and Techniques: identify some media forms and explain how the
conventions and techniques associated with them are used to create meaning;
3. Creating Media Texts: create a variety of media texts for different purposes and audiences, using appropriate
forms, conventions, and techniques;
4. Reflecting on Skills and Strategies: reflect on and identify their strengths as media interpreters and creators,
areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful in understanding and creating media texts.
Instructional Strategies:
Westside teaching staff will use a variety of instructional strategies to help students develop and improve skills
in the following areas: character, citizenship, communication, critical thinking and problem solving, collaboration
and teamwork, and creativity and imagination.
Assessment and Evaluation:
Each unit will have one or more major culminating assignments. As well, the students will be required to submit
a final culminating activity at the end of the semester.
● When a student has not submitted a summative evaluation, then a mark of zero may be assigned, and
the teacher will use professional judgment to determine the impact on the overall report card.
● Consequences of cheating and plagiarism may include academic penalties (e.g. loss of marks up to loss
of full marks redo all or part of the work) and/or disciplinary action. See school website for complete
policy.
● Oral presentations must be completed within the assigned presentation schedule, otherwise students
will be given one more opportunity to present for a completion mark only.
● Conferencing, as an assessment strategy, is of paramount important to student success in this course.
Late Work
Students are expected to complete all assigned work and submit it by the teacher's established due date. Every
attempt will be made to encourage students to complete all assigned work on time so their grade represent
their actual achievement. Should a student submit work past the due date, a late mark penalty will be assigned.
All summative assessments must be submitted for course credit. Please see Westside's Assessment and
Evaluation Policy for more details.
The strands of Literature Studies and Reading, Writing, Language and Media Studies, will each be evaluated
within the following achievement categories as outlined by the Ministry Guidelines:
25%
Knowledge and Understanding
25%
Thinking and Inquiry
25%
Communication
25%
Application
● Term work will be worth 70% of the final mark. (The Independent Study Unit is worth 20% of term
mark.)
● The culminating activity will be worth 30% of the final mark.
Term Work (70%)
Unit of Study
Summative Evaluations
Narrative: Acceleration
Big Idea: The conflicts we experience define us
1. Series of Paragraphs
2. Test
Media
Big Idea: Media Affects our Identity
1. Research Project and Presentation
2. Test
Social Issues: various non-fiction
Big Idea: We impact our environment
1. Informational text
Culminating Activities
ISU (15%)
Series of paragraphs and short presentation: “What defines
you? What defines the main character in your book?”
Exam (15%)
Other Information:
i) A record will be kept on the student’s following Learning Skills (as outlined by the Ministry Guidelines): Responsibility,
Organization, Independent Work, Collaboration, Initiative, Self-regulation.
ii) It is the student’s responsibility to speak directly with the teacher before handing in a late assignment.
iii) Students are expected to keep track of all assignments and ensure that they are submitted to the teacher. Should the
student fail to submit any projects or assignments, this will be reflected in his or her mark.
iv) Students are expected to return their books in the condition they received them. Otherwise the following replacement
costs will apply: Acceleration: $10