Peer support is about learning to be a better leader, learning conflict resolution and how to help students in their first year of high school in a whole list of ways. This course is for students interested in teaching, leading (including running your own business), and all forms of helping people. The course is very attendance based with minimal homework and out of class work required with training being done in 3 separate blocks. Please see Mr. Norton with any and all questions. Strong reading and organization skills are recommended.

ENG1D (Destreamed) This course is designed to develop the oral communication, reading, writing, and media literacy skills that students need for success in their secondary school academic programs and in their daily lives. Students will analyse literary texts from contemporary and historical periods, interpret informational and graphic texts, and create oral, written, and media texts in a variety of forms. An important focus will be on the use of strategies that contribute to effective communication. The course is intended to prepare students for the Grade 10 academic or applied English course, which leads to university or college preparation courses in Grades 11 and 12.

Novel - The Testing 

Book Club Options: Lord of the Flies, The Chrysalids, The Juvie Three, The Unlikely Hero of Room 13b, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Simon vs the Homosapien Agenda

These courses are aiming to improve your skills in all areas, chief among those your reading comprehension. This course extends the range of analytic reading, writing, oral communication, and thinking skills that students need for success in secondary school academic programs.  A major aim of these courses is to teach you that there is grey in society and that situations often require heroes. Also, it is to teach to understand the idea and concept of the outsider. Finally, the book festival project will aim to challenge all these skills along with time management.

Key Texts- Hate U Give, All American Boys, Romeo and Juliet

Book Festival- 2 books of your choosing!

This course is all about identity and what that means. This course aims to teach students how to determine and develop their own identity (sovereignty)through the understandings, challenges and issues faced and facing First Nations, Metis and Inuit peoples of Canada. The course will focus on texts that will help students understand different cultures and relationships, thereby allowing students to help define their own culture. The goal is a better understanding of the English language using the theme of identity through studying First Nations, Inuit and Metis literature, customs and concepts. 

Gr. 11 Books - Indian Horse, The Marrow Thieves

Key Texts - Cottagers and Indians, Trickster

This course emphasizes the consolidation of the literacy, communication and critical thinking skills necessary for sources in academic and daily life. Students will analyze challenge literary and classic texts from various periods, countries, and cultures. They will interpret and evaluate informational and graphic texts and then create oral, written and media texts in a variety of forms. An important focus will be on using academic language coherently and confidently selecting the reading strategies best suited to particular texts and particular purposes for reading and developing greater control in writing. 

Gr. 12 Texts - TBD

This course is a substitute for the Literacy requirement to graduate. It is a more assignment and task based course different from other English's. It's aim is to improve a student's writing. It should only be taken in consultation with the Head of English as a substitute for the Literacy Test. It can be taken in grade 11 or 12.