Overall expectations are in the areas of Oral Communication, Reading and Literature Studies, Writing, Media Studies. At the end of the course, students will:

Oral Communication:

1. Listening to Understand: listen to understand and respond appropriately in a variety of situations for a variety of purposes. 
2. Speaking to Communicate: use speaking skills and strategies appropriately to communicate with different audiences for a variety of purposes 
3. Reflecting on Skills and Strategies: Reflect on and identify their strengths as listeners and speakers, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful in oral communication situations 

Reading and Literature Studies:

1. Reading for Meaning: read and demonstrate an understanding of a variety of literary, informational, and graphic texts, using a range of strategies to construct meaning. 
2. Understanding Form and Style: recognize a variety of text forms, text features, and stylistic elements and demonstrate understanding of how they help communicate meaning. 
3. Read with Fluency: Use knowledge of words and cueing systems to read fluently. 
4. Reflecting on Skills and Strategies: reflect on and identify their strengths are readers, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful before, during, and after reading. 

Writing:

1. Developing and Organizing Content: generate, gather, and organize ideas and information to write for an intended purpose and audience. 
2. Using Knowledge of Form and Style: draft and revise their writing, using a variety of literary, informational, and graphic forms and stylistic elements appropriate for the purpose and audience. 
3. Applying Knowledge of Conventions: use editing, proofreading, and publishing skills and strategies, and knowledge of language conventions, to correct errors, refine expression, and present their work effectively. 
4. Reflecting on Skills and Strategies: reflect on and identify their strengths are writers, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful at different stages in the writing process. 

Media Studies:

1. Understanding Media Texts: demonstrate an understanding of a variety of media texts. 
2. Understanding Media Forms, Conventions, and Techniques: identify some media forms and explain how the conventions and techniques associated with them are used to create meaning. 
3. Creating Media Texts: create a variety of media texts for different purposes and audiences, using appropriate forms, conventions, and techniques. 
4. Reflecting on Skills and Strategies: reflect on and identify their strengths as media interpreters, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful in understanding and creating media. 

A variety of teaching and learning strategies are used to allow students many opportunities to attain and demonstrate the necessary skills for success in this course. In all activities, consideration will be taken to ensure that individual students’ learning strengths are addressed, through the use of varied and multiple activities in each lesson. 

Through a series of written, reading, and oral communications and learning activities in the classroom, students will have ample opportunities to attain new knowledge as well as display that knowledge for assessment and evaluation. The teacher will use a wide variety of strategies to meet the needs of various learning styles and levels in the classroom. 

A passing grade is recorded for each course in which a student’s grade is 50% or higher. The final grade will be determined as follows:

1. Seventy percent (70%) of the final grade will be based on assessments and evaluations conducted throughout the course. In conjunction with The Ontario Curriculum, Grade 11 & 12 Achievement Chart, term work will be assessed in the following manner:

Knowledge & Understanding                     25%

Thinking/Inquiry                                         25%

Communication                                           25%

Application                                                  25%

2. Thirty percent (30%) of the final grade will be based on a final evaluation in the forms of a culminating task and an

Culminating Task                                        15%

Final Exam                                                 15%

The following considerations apply to all the units in this course:

• Modify some of the course expectations based on ESL student’s level of English
• Provide additional exercises or teaching where
• Tailor assignments, assessments, and evaluation to meet individual
• Provide students with a glossary of literary and technical terms and their
• Use visual cues, pictures, graphic organizers for visual
• Break down tasks into manageable chunks with deadlines for each
• Small groups of students may be encouraged to offer assistance to students who will need help with editing process.
• Allow (shy) students to video-record their role plays, tableaux, re-enactments instead of performing them in
• Build in more conferencing time for students who need
• Offer an alternative form of participation for students whose cultures do not encourage some performance tasks like debates and dance-drama.
• Provide enrichment activities that may include creative journal component and/or performance activities that allow students to advance the idea of diversity and tolerance.