ENG3U Course Information Sheet
Course Information Sheet
English: ENG 3U
This course emphasizes the development of literacy, communication, and critical and creative thinking skills necessary for success in academic and daily life. Students will analyse challenging literary texts from various periods, countries, and cultures, as well as a range of informational and graphic texts, and create oral, written, and media texts in a variety of forms. An important focus will be on using language with precision and clarity and incorporating stylistic devices appropriately and effectively.
ENG 3U focuses on these overall expectations from the Ministry of
Education’s curriculum:
Oral Communication
· listen in order to understand and respond appropriately in a variety of situations for a variety of purposes;
· use speaking skills and strategies appropriately to communicate with different audiences for a variety of purposes;
· 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
· read and demonstrate an understanding of a variety of literary, informational, and graphic texts, using a range of strategies to construct meaning;
· recognize a variety of text forms, text features, and stylistic elements and demonstrate understanding of how they help communicate meaning;
· use knowledge of words and cueing systems to read fluently;
· reflect on and identify their strengths as readers, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful before, during, and after reading.
Writing
· generate, gather, and organize ideas and information to write for an intended purpose and audience;
· draft and revise their writing, using a variety of literary, informational, and graphic forms and stylistic elements appropriate for the purpose and audience;
· use editing, proofreading, and publishing skills and strategies, and knowledge of language conventions, to correct errors, refine expression, and present their work effectively;
· reflect on and identify their strengths as writers, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful at different stages in the writing process.
Media Studies
· demonstrate an understanding of a variety of media texts;
· identify some media forms and explain how the conventions and techniques associated with them are used to create meaning;
· create a variety of media texts for different purposes and audiences, using appropriate forms, conventions, and techniques;
· reflect on and identify their strengths as media interpreters and creators, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful in understanding and creating media texts.
Your final mark will be calculated based on the Ministry of Education’s Achievement Chart for the course as follows: Knowledge/Understanding: 25%; Thinking/Inquiry: 25%; Communication: 25%; Application: 25%
70% of the final mark will be based on work completed throughout the course, including tests, oral presentations and a variety of written assignments and projects. 30% will be based on the final evaluation
All course expectations can be found at the Ontario Ministry of Education Website
http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/curriculum/secondary
Some crucial info for success.
I only accept Level 3 or above. If you hand in less, you redo.
I accept late work. Lobb has no deadlines - this is a Jedi mind trick.
I am a very easily bored and distracted person. You need to try and focus yourself because I am not good at helping that.
The work is based on patterns. Patterns are the key to success everywhere.
You need a good group. 21st Century Student Skills - collaboration, inquiry groups, searching/drill down techniques, multimedia, self-motivation, application of concepts, etc.
We don’t memorize - no tests, no multiple choice, no fill in the blank, no content tests, no old-fashioned memory stuff
We need to focus on a new kind of thinking.
Digging in, finding symbolic and deeper meanings, comparing, working from the small to the large - microcosm -> macrocosm.
Looking in a book can tell us about the world we live in.
Reading a poem can teach us about people we may meet.
Analysing a story can help us get dates with hot men and ladies.
Analytical thinking, planning, looking past the obvious and make conclusions that might help you is what separates rich people from poor people (unless those people live everywhere but Europe, North America and Asia).
Simple Rules -
Don’t text people - please (don’t make me get a phone box or a drawer)
You can use your phone for notes, messages to self, research, whatever, but don’t text.
Don’t use “gay” as a descriptive replacement for “dumb”, “unappealing”, “no fun”
We need to be open to issues that challenge our thinking. ie cloning - don’t be offended - “If I am this easily offended by these ideas, then how strong are my original beliefs?”
“Never agree to die for your beliefs because you might change your mind.”
Manipulation is crucial. Play The Game - make the man think you are in it to win it and then you will.
Don’t try to win by complaining. It will only make me delight in the cruelty.
it turns out that people add their own “whatever” to almost everything that they read, hear, see, smell, etc.
we have these filters in our heads that prevent us from actually experiencing things
how much of what we are doing are we not actually participating in?
How much stuff is going on that we don’t even see?
Denotation
Connotation
A connotation is a commonly understood subjective cultural or emotional association that some word or phrase carries, in addition to the word's or phrase's explicit or literal meaning, which is its denotation.
black cat - literal (denotation) - there is a cat with dark fur
black cat - associations (connotations) - unlucky, pets, witches, magic, Hallowe’en, evil,
There are appended (attached), to many of the “things” we commonly discuss or know about, a whole bunch of associations, concepts, images, ideas, etc that we can think about that give LAYERS of meaning
We need to be able to find these associations and think about them and write about them and come up with them on our own.
cross
wheel
light
wings
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