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**School**: Rockland District High School **Board**: Upper Canada District School Board **Teacher**:P. Murray **Date**: September 2015 **Program Leader:** K. Gagnon **Division**: Literacy and Numeracy **Course Title**: Grade Nine Applied English/Grade 9 Academic English **Course Code:** ENG1PE/ENG1DE **Ministry Guideline**: English **Year**:2013 **Number of Credits**: 1
 * Course Outline**


 * Description**

This course emphasizes analytic reading, writing, oral communication, and thinking skills that students need for success in secondary school academic programs and their daily lives. Students will study and interpret texts from contemporary and historical periods, including plays, short stories, and short essays, and will investigate and create media works. An important focus will be the correct and effective use of spoken and written language.


 * Resources**:
 * Sightlines 9 || LanguageWorks 9 || Julius Caesar ||
 * ResourceLines 9 || Cue for Treason || To Kill a Mockingbird ||
 * Mythic Voices ||  ||   ||

Course Evaluation
 * Units || Approximate Duration || Expectations Evaluated ||
 * Poetic Forms and Voices || 20 Days || * Listening to Understand
 * Reading for Meaning
 * Understanding Form and Style
 * Using Knowledge of Form and Style
 * Developing and Organizing Content
 * Applying Knowledge of Conventions
 * Reflecting on Skills and Strategies ||
 * Dramatic Forms and Voices || 30 Days || * Understanding Form and Style
 * Reading With Fluency
 * Reading for Meaning
 * Speaking to Communicate
 * Developing and Organizing Content
 * Understanding Media Forms, Conventions, and Techniques
 * Applying Knowledge of Conventions
 * Reflecting on Skills and Strategies ||
 * Narrative Forms and Voices - Fiction || 25 Days || * Developing and Organizing Content
 * Understanding Media Texts
 * Understanding Media Forms, Conventions, and Techniques
 * Creating Media Texts
 * Applying Knowledge of Conventions
 * Reading for Meaning
 * Reflecting on Skills and Strategies ||
 * Informational Forms and Voices - Non-Fiction || 5 Days || * Developing and Organizing Content
 * Understanding Media Texts
 * Understanding Media Forms, Conventions, and Techniques
 * Speaking to Communicate
 * Reflecting on Skills and Strategies ||
 * Independent Studies || on-going throughout term || * Developing and Organizing Content
 * Using Knowledge of Form and Style
 * Applying Knowledge of Conventions ||


 * Term Work
 * Theory/Inquiry 25%
 * Applications 25%
 * Communication 25%
 * Knowledge/Understanding 25% || 70% ||
 * Final Culminating Assessment || 30% ||
 * * Final Exam 50%
 * Final Culminating Activity 50% ||  ||