ENGLISH 12 ONLINE - Continuous Entry
COURSE OUTLINE
Instructor: Ms. Sabrina Fox
sfox@sd43.bc.ca
(604) 945-4211
INSTRUCTOR AVAILABILITY: (see online copy for links)
Mondays - Thursdays 10-2 p.m. at Coquitlam Learning Opportunity Centre
& Tuesday Evenings from 5:00 – 9:00 p.m. as well.
SCORE REPORT PARTICULARS
Assignments & Scores
Individual Mark Weightings & Distribution
ASSIGNMENT
RAW SCALED
UNIT ONE: WRITING
UNIT
10
10
Definition Paragraph
10
10
Explaining Paragraph
10
10
Descriptive Paragraph
10
10
Introductory Paragraph
10
10
Concluding Paragraph
10
10
Full Essay Outline
15
15
Full Essay Composition
15
15
Assignment Totals
_____/80
Writing UNIT EXAM
_____/100
FINAL WRITING UNIT
SCORE
_____%
UNIT TWO: SHORT
STORY UNIT
Story Terminology
40
7
Story #1 "CatbirdSeat"
Paragraph
10
12
Story #2 "The Bet" Short
Answer Questions
12
5
1
Story #2 "The Bet" Paragraph 10
10
Story #3 "A Walk to the Jetty"
8
Short Answer
5
Story #3 "A Walk to the Jetty"
10
Paragraph
10
Story #4 "The Ultimate Safari"
12
Short Answer
10
Story #4 "The Ultimate Safari"
10
Paragraph
10
Story #5 "The Artist" Short
Answer
14
10
Story #5 "The Artist" MiniEssay
24
24
Total Possible
103
Assignments Total
_____/103
Unit Exam Total
_____/100
FINAL UNIT SCORE
______%
UNIT THREE: POETRY
A. Poetic Terms
15
10
B. Original Figures of Speech 10
10
1. "Gathering" Analysis
25
10
2. "Haiku" Analysis
16
10
3. "Ode to Socks" Analysis
17
10
4. "Mother to Son"
16
10
5. "A Mother"
25
15
Assignment Total
_____/75
Unit Exam Total
_____/100
FINAL UNIT SCORE
______%
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Assignment
UNIT FOUR: DRAMA or NOVEL
FULL-LENGTH READING
1. Assignment
/100
2. Unit EXAM
/100
Unit Totals
/200
FINAL UNIT SCORE
TERM WORK
Writing Unit
20%
Short Story Unit
20%
Poetry Unit
Drama or Novel Unit
TEACHER FINAL EXAM
FINAL TEACHER MARK
Provincial Exam weighting is 40% +
Teacher mark contributes 60%
PROVINCIAL EXAM LINK
Course Weightings Overview
Writing Unit
Short Story Unit
Poetry Unit
Drama or Novel Unit
Course Term Work
/20
/20
/15
/15
/70
/30
Final Exam
____/100%
School Mark = 60%
Provincial Mark = 40%
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LEARNING RESOURCES
Prentice-Hall Literature: World Masterpieces, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
(Mitch Albom), selected readings/ Oedipus Rex (by Sophocles)
OBJECTIVES for ENGLISH 12
Learning Objectives: Their Importance and Construction
What is a Learning Objective?
"A learning objective is a statement of what students will be able to do when they
have finished the task."
A learning objective has 3 major components:
 A description of what the student will be able to do
 The conditions under which the student will perform the tasak
 The criteria for evaluating student performance.
Prepared by Raoul Arreola
Why are objectives important/useful to me?
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Knowing the purpose of the task helps students to make the most effective use of their time and
effort
Understanding the learning objectives enables students to find purpose and meaning in their
learning
Armed with the knowledge of the outcomes, students may be more successful in completing tasks
in a meaningful and useful manner
Prepared by Sabrina Fox
SECTIONS
OBJECTIVES
Meetings
Demonstrate effective communication strategies and techniques
orally
Interact and collaborate with others to explore ideas and accomplish
goals
Interact purposefully with others
Short Story
Develop strategies for organizing, outlining, drafting, editing, and
writing purposeful informative and personal tasks
Express ideas and explore and respond to literature
Argue and persuade using communication strategies and
technologies
Poetry
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Interpret ambiguities in works and support their own interpretation
Monitor own work for clarity, preciseness and correctness
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Writing
Synthesize, organize and document information using planning
tools such as webs, outlinese, and diagrams
Compose and share a work in progress
Adapt and apply different strategies for the paraphrasing,
summarizing, and presenting of ideas
Drama
Organize information and knowledge to create a scholarly
presentation in a formal written assignment
Novel
The novel unit is the culminating unit which draws together all of
the concepts brought forth in the previous units
Skills essential to effective reading and writing will be reviewed
and reinforced.
Students will read a major full-length fictional piece and use the
strategies and skills they have gained throughout the course to
demonstrate their effective skill integration in reading, interpreting
and writing about literature
Final Exam
The teacher final exam will enable students to demonstrate their
skill mastery in the above genres.
The teacher final exam will enable teacher and student alike to
examine student test-taking strategies to determine if any
amendments are necessary before writing the provincial exam (if
students are writing that exam.)
NOTE: All information herein is also on your course website.
Additional details are given there with links to course objectives.
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