ENGLISH 11

  English 11 rests on the expectation that students will advance their skills in reading and viewing with understanding a wide range of literary, visual, media, and information texts.

General Objectives

  a)  the development the student’s skills to think and explore various texts on deeper levels of comprehension and meaning

b) the advancement the student’s skills and strategies in critical thinking, and in the analysis and  systhesis of content and theme 

c) the development of the student’s skills to assess ideas, information, and language, and thus advance their ability to articulate their understanding via literary, visual, or creative mediums

d) the making of meaningful connections between the ideas and information in texts and the student’s own experience

e) the development of writing skills, techniques, and styles

f) research and documentation

Learning Experiences

Literary texts - prose, poetry, drama, essays  

Allegorical and symbolic texts

Visual texts - films, art, photographs

The Media (all)

Music

Personal reflective essays/Creative writing/Critical literacy

Large/small group work/discussions/reading circles

Guest speakers

Among the major pieces of work studied (beyond the short story, poetry, essays, and novels) are:

Hamlet and Macbeth, by William Shakespeare

Inherit the Wind, by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee

A Doll’s House, by Henrik Ibsen  

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                                                      Evaluation

                                               Tests (M)  -   25% 

                             Tests (C) and Quizzes  -   20%

                              Essays/Assignments  -     30%

            Creative Response to Literature   -    25%

                 (Presentation)

All essay assignments and test/examination responses are evaluated according to the criteria specified by the Dept of Education - content, thought, style, organization, detail, thought sequencing, qualification, correctness ( sentence structure, the basic rudiments of language and grammar, writing mechanics).