Grade 11 University English
A quick overview as to what you will
be studying this semester.
Unit 1: Short Stories
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Mini-unit
Mostly review from last year
Approximately 2 weeks
Unit test @ end
Unit 2: Sight passages
 Analyze essays
 Thesis
 Tone
 Etc.
 Personal responses
 Persuasive essay writing
 Unit test
Unit 3: Brave New World (and
maybe Animal Farm too)
 Pre-reading assignment involving a
media component (informative
pamphlet)
 Personal response portfolio
 Essay outline presentations
 In class essay test
Unit 4: Summative
 Worth 10% of final mark
 Intro speeches
 Look @ famous speeches
 Examine gestures/ cues
 3 step process:
 Annotated bibliography (term work)
 Finished copy (term work)
 Speech presentation (10%)
Unit 5: Macbeth
 Read entirely in class
 Act tasks
 Questions
 Assignments
 Quotation analysis
 Essay on exam
Exam
 Section A
 Sight passage
 Section B
 Essay
 Macbeth
 Brave New World / Animal Farm
What you should know about me:
 Best way for you and parents to
contact me is via email
(andrew.wilson@ocdsb.ca)!
 I have a wikispace which can be
accessed online:
 http://wilson-nepeanhs.wikispaces.com/
What you should know about me:
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Homework policy
Seating
Binders
Electronic devices
Lates
Absences
“Caf” periods
Food in the classroom
QUESTIONS???