English, Grade 9, Destreamed
This course enables students to continue to develop and consolidate the foundational knowledge and skills that they need for reading, writing, and oral and visual communication. Throughout the course, students will continue to enhance their media literacy and critical literacy skills, and to develop and apply transferable skills, including digital literacy. Students will also make connections to their lived experiences and to society and increase their understanding of the importance of language and literacy across the curriculum.
From: The Ontario Curriculum, English, Grade 9 Destreamed (2023)
COURSE SYLLABUS
The course syllabus for ENL1W, including overall curriculum expectations, as well as a breakdown of the assignments that will form the basis of each student's evaluation. Though visually different, this official Thames Valley board version is substantively the same as the more compact version distributed to students in class.
COURSE CURRICULUM
The official Ontario Ministry of Education curriculum documents for the new ENL1W course. The file contains general and specific expectations within the four strands that make up the new destreamed English curriculum. These expectations form the core of assessment and evaluation in English classes.
This is the approved secondary school calendar for 2024 - 2025.
PROGRESS CHART - CLICK ⬈ IN RIGHT CORNER OF SHEET TO ENLARGE IN NEW WINDOW...
For information on how to read this spreadsheet, click here: Reading the Progress Spreadsheet
You must have access to your child's code name in order to use the progress chart. Your child received this code name on joining the class. If you need access to the code name, and your child is unable to provide it, contact Mr. McBurney using the channels outlined in the information package sent home at the start of the semester, or call the school at 519-773-3174.
Students are introduced to concepts in our narrative studies unit through a handful of stories contained in this text, including "Loathe at First Sight," by Ellen Conford, "Moonface," by Richardo Keens-Douglas, and "Doing Something," by R.P. MacIntyre. Concepts studied include plot, character, setting, theme, and other foundational narrative elements.
Probably the best known of all Shakespeare's plays, Romeo and Juliet tells the story of two "star-crossed lovers" who, despite hailing from feuding families with years of animosity separating them, fall in love and make plans to be married - that is, until the family fighting spills into their personal lives and forces them to make desperate choices with unforeseen consequences.