1 credit course
Prerequisite: None

This course emphasizes the key reading, writing, oral communication and thinking skills students need for success in secondary school and in their daily lives. In particular, the program works toward preparing students to be more successful in their regular Grade 9 English course and later high school English courses. Students read a variety of narrative and expository forms, poetry, and drama and practice the skills necessary for clear and accurate spoken and written language. In particular, course activities will help develop confidence and self-esteem and provide motivation to succeed in school and life.

1 credit course
Prerequisite: None

The aim of this course is to enhance, strengthen, and extend language proficiency, enabling students to become competent practitioners in all six strands of Language Arts (reading, writing, representing, speaking, listening, and viewing). Contents of this course may include: Public Speaking and Debating, Creative Writing, Journalism, Technology Application and Transactional Writing, Drama, Information Management, Media Literacy, and Novel Study.

1 credit course

Prerequisite: English Language Arts 10F

Students in this grade 10 course will learn to listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent different forms of communication in language appropriate to form. They will be expected to extend their skills and awareness in areas such as:

· exploring thoughts, ideas, feelings, and experiences

· comprehending and responding personally to and critically to oral, literary, and media texts

· managing ideas and information

· celebrating and building community

· enhance the clarity and artistry of communication

1 credit course
Prerequisite: English Language Arts 20F

The student learning outcomes within the Comprehensive Focus are an elaboration of the knowledge, skills and strategies, and attitudes that constitute literacy. Students enhance their skills in reading and appreciating a range of forms, genres, and media, and learn the conventions of a range of transactional and literary forms.

· As listeners, readers, and viewers, they examine the effect of various language techniques, and learn to assess information for accuracy, logic, and relevance.

· As speakers, writers, and representers, they learn to shape communication for an audience, express themselves clearly and with the intended effect, and select from a range of stances, voices, diction, and forms appropriate to their purpose.

Through a wide variety of learning experiences, students use and interpret a range of media, manage data and information efficiently, and plan and work in creative collaboration.

1 credit course

Prerequisite: ELA: Comprehensive Focus 30S or
     ELA: Transactional Focus 30S or
     ELA: Literary Focus 30S

In Grade 12 English, students will study a wide range of literary forms (novels, short stories, drama, poetry) and transactional materials. All aspects of reading, writing, listening, speaking, viewing and representing skills will be developed. This wide range of material serves as an introduction to the electives in which students study specific topics in more depth.

1 credit course

Prerequisite: English Language Arts 20F

English Language Arts 30S: Literary Focus is one of the options offered in the third year of the Senior Years English Language Arts Program. The course is focused on providing students with the opportunity to develop specific strategies and skills to increase their ability, knowledge, and learning in the language arts. This is a specialized course designed for students to experience and produce 30% pragmatic material (created for the purpose of providing information/opinion) and 70% aesthetic material (created for literary enjoyment). Pragmatic material includes such forms as essays, editorials, news articles, documentaries, and reports. Aesthetic material includes such forms as novels, poems, short stories, films, drama, artwork, and photographs. Each sequence of study allows for the active use of the six language arts strands – speaking, listening, reading, writing, viewing, and representing. Each strand is weighted equally.

Students are assessed according to specific learning outcomes. Student abilities are assessed according to an expected level of student performance upon completion of the course.

On completion of the course students will be prepared to continue on in English Language Arts 40S. This course is recommended for students intending to select E.L.A. 40S: Literary Focus in their Grade 12 year.

1 credit course

Prerequisite: ELA: Comprehensive Focus 30S or
     ELA: Transactional Focus 30S or
     ELA: Literary Focus 30S

English Language Arts 40S: Literary Focus is one of the options offered in the fourth year of the Senior Years English Language Arts Program. The course is focused on providing students with the opportunity to develop specific strategies and skills to increase their ability, knowledge, and learning in the language arts.

It entails a more intensive analysis of literary forms, genres, techniques, and elements.   This is a specialized course designed for students to experience and produce 30% pragmatic material (created for the purpose of providing information/opinion) and 70% aesthetic material (created for literary enjoyment). Pragmatic material includes such forms as essays, editorials, news articles, documentaries, and reports. Aesthetic material includes such forms as novels, poems, short stories, films, drama, artwork, and photographs. Each sequence of study allows for the active use of the six language arts strands – speaking, listening, reading, writing, viewing, and representing. Each strand is weighted equally.

Students are assessed according to specific learning outcomes. Student abilities are assessed according to an expected level of student performance upon completion of the course.

On completion of the course students will be prepared to continue on at the university level. This course is recommended for students intending to enroll in English courses at university.

1 credit course

Prerequisite: ELA: Comprehensive Focus 30S or
     ELA: Transactional Focus 30S or
     ELA: Literary Focus 30S

In the AP course in English Literature and Composition students are engaged in the careful reading of literary works. Through each study they sharpen their awareness of language and their understanding of the writer's craft. They develop critical standards for the independent appreciation of any literary work and they increase their sensitivity to literature as a shared experience. To achieve these goals, students study the individual work, its language, characters, actions and themes. They consider its structure, meaning and value and its relationship to contemporary experience, as well as to the times in which it was written.

Students who select AP English are expected to be proficient readers who enjoy the challenge of doing a great deal of extra reading. Students are generally given a summer reading list that they are expected to complete by the time school starts in September. These works are then discussed in regular English courses and in special AP tutorials held throughout the year. Besides the reading, students are instructed on how to write expository style literary essays.

This broad base of experience is intended to prepare students for the AP examination written in May of each year. In essence the AP English class is a university level course taught at high school. Because of the intensive nature of the course, students choosing AP English earn one English credit at Morden Collegiate. It may be used as a second English for university entrance.

1 credit course

Prerequisite: English Language Arts 20F

English Language Arts 30S: Transactional Focus is one of the options offered in the third year of the Senior Years English Language Arts Program. The course is focused on providing students with the opportunity to develop specific strategies and skills to increase their ability, knowledge, and learning in the language arts. This is a specialized course designed for students to experience 70% pragmatic material (created for the purpose of providing information/opinion) and 30% aesthetic material (created for literary enjoyment) and produce 100% pragmatic material. Pragmatic material includes such forms as essays, editorials, news articles, documentaries, and reports. Aesthetic material includes such forms as novels, poems, short stories, films, drama, artwork, and photographs. Each sequence of study allows for the active use of the six language arts strands – speaking, listening, reading, writing, viewing, and representing. Each strand is weighted equally.

Students are assessed according to specific learning outcomes. Student abilities are assessed according to an expected level of student performance upon completion of the course.

On completion of the course students will be prepared to continue on in English Language Arts 40S. This course is recommended for students intending to select E.L.A. 40S: Transactional Focus in their Grade 12 year.

1 credit course

Prerequisite: ELA: Comprehensive Focus 30S or
     ELA: Transactional Focus 30S or
     ELA: Literary Focus 30S

English Language Arts 40S: Transactional Focus is one of the options offered in the fourth year of the Senior Years English Language Arts Program. The course is focused on providing students with the opportunity to develop specific strategies and skills to increase their ability, knowledge, and learning in the language arts. It entails a more intensive analysis of transactional forms, techniques, and elements. This is a specialized course designed for students to experience 70% pragmatic material (created for the purpose of providing information/opinion) and 30% aesthetic material (created for literary enjoyment) and produce 100% pragmatic material. Pragmatic material includes such forms as essays, editorials, news articles, documentaries, and reports. Aesthetic material includes such forms as novels, poems, short stories, films, drama, artwork, and photographs. Each sequence of study allows for the active use of the six language arts strands – speaking, listening, reading, writing, viewing, and representing. Each strand is weighted equally.

Students are assessed according to specific learning outcomes. Student abilities are assessed according to an expected level of student performance upon completion of the course.

On completion of the course students will be prepared to continue on at the college or university level. This course is recommended for students intending to enter faculties other than Arts or not requiring a first-year English course.