This course is designed to help you become skilled viewers, listeners, speakers, and readers of poetry, short stories, essays, articles, media, films, plays, and novels. Through your reading and writing in this course, you should become aware of the interactions among a writer’s purposes, audience expectations, and subjects, as well as the way conventions and the resources of language contribute to effective writing. Course content is largely taught from a Catholic worldview. Students will also learn about principles of First Nations learning.

• Composition

  • Grammar, punctuation, and vocabulary

  • Paragraph writing

  • Essay writing

  • Creative writing

  • Speech writing

• Literature

  • Literary Devices

  • Poetry

  • Character and Narrative Analysis

  • Short Stories

  • Novels

  • Plays

• Modern/Alternative

  • Podcasts

  • Shorts

  • Manga

  • Blogs

  • Oral Languages

  • Acting

  • Debating