Cardinal Léger Secondary School
Moderns Department
Course Name: ESL Open
Course Code: ESL DO
Level: Level 4
Ministry Guidelines:
Course Overview:
This course prepares students to use English with increasing fluency and accuracy in classroom and social
situations and to participate in Canadian society as informed citizens. Students will develop the oral-presentation,
reading, and writing skills required for success in all school subjects. They will extend listening and speaking skills
through participation in discussions and seminars; study and interpret a variety of grade-level texts; write
narratives, articles, and summaries in English; respond critically to a variety of print and media texts.
Curriculum Strands and Overall Expectations:
Listening and Speaking
By the end of this course, students will:
Demonstrate the ability to understand, interpret, and evaluate spoken English for a variety of purposes:
Use speaking skills and strategies to communicate in English for a variety of classroom and social purposes:
Use correctly the language structures appropriate for this level to communicate orally in English.
Reading
By the end of this course, students will:
Read and demonstrate understanding of a variety of texts for different purposes;
Use a variety of reading strategies throughout the reading process to extract meaning from texts;
Use a variety of strategies to build vocabulary;
Locate and extract relevant information from written and graphic texts for a variety of purposes.
Writing
By the end of this course, students will:
Write a variety of forms for different purposes and audiences;
Organize ideas coherently in writing;
Use correctly the conventions of written English appropriate for this level, including grammar, usage, spelling, and punctuation;
Use the stages of the writing process.
Socio-Cultural Competence and Media Literacy
By the end of this course, students will:
Use English and non-verbal communication strategies appropriately in a variety of social contexts;
Demonstrate an understanding of the rights and responsibilities of Canadian citizenship, and of the contributions of diverse groups to
Canadian society;
Demonstrate knowledge of and adaptation to the Ontario education system;
Demonstrate an understanding of, interpret, and create a variety of media texts.
Grammatical Structures:
Nouns - abstract nouns
Pronouns – indefinite
Verbs – present perfect and passive progressive, gerunds, conditional, consistent use of verb tenses
Adjectives – noun and three adjectives,
Adverbs – formed by adding –ly to ing/ed participles
Transition words and phrases
Question forms
Negation
Prepositions
Sentences – with the addition of second subordinate clause,
Punctuation
Conventions of Print:
Hyphen
Colon, semi-colon
Apostrophe
Quotation marks
Parentheses
ellipses
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Cardinal Léger Secondary School
Moderns Department
Evaluation:
Term Work
70%
Knowledge and Understanding
25%
Thinking
25%
Communication
25%
Application
25%
Final Assessment
30%
Formal Examination
15%
Culminating Task
15%
Course Total
100%
Learning Skills and Work Habits
Responsibility
Organization
Independent Work
Collaboration
Initiative
Self-Regulation
E= Excellent G=Good S=Satisfactory N= Needs Improvement
Fulfills responsibility and commitments.
Takes responsibility for and manages own behavior.
Devises and follows a plan and process for completing tasks.
Establishes priorities and manages time
Independently monitors, assesses, and revises plans to
complete tasks and meet goals.
Uses class time to complete tasks.
Accepts various roles and an equitable share of work in a group.
Builds healthy peer-to-peer relationships.
Looks for and acts on new ideas and opportunities.
Approaches new tasks with a positive attitude.
Sets own goals and monitors progress towards achieving them.
Seeks clarification or assistance when needed.
Missed/Late/Incomplete Assignments
It is the student’s responsibility to address missed, late, or incomplete assignments. Students are
expected to complete assignments and to adhere to assignment deadlines as follows:
Due Date
A due date is set by the
teacher.
10% Penalty Zone
1 school day late – 3%
2 school days late – 6%
3 school days late – 10%
Maximum penalty of 10%
Closure Date
Once the closure date has
passed, work is considered
incomplete and a mark of
zero applies.
Parent Signature: _______________________ Student Signature: ______________________
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