ENG3U - Grade Eleven Academic English
On this page students will find periodic updates on classroom activities, handouts, and assignments. Please note: Not all class activities are posted online. This site should serve as a general reminder of issues and topics covered in our units. Visiting this site is not in any way a substitute for classroom attendance and participation.
Week 1: Introductions, Course Information Forms, Expectations, and Review
Weeks 2-4: Initial Assessments and Unit 1: Poetry, Identity and Storytelling
Students will complete an in-class review assessment of reading and writing skills as their first assignment for the course.
This fall, we will be working on a Poetry Unit to ensure students' effective use of language, communication skills, and structure to express ideas. Through their poetry explications, creative writing, media connections, and spoken word poetry slam, students will begin to sharpen their skills. They will also review and extend understanding of literary and poetic devices, short essay structure, and elements of style, including making effective inferences from written and oral texts.
Readings for this unit are from Echoes 11, the Canadian Students' Guide, supplementary handouts, and online oral poetry/lyrics and will include a variety of poetic forms (sonnets, free verse, odes, and ekphrasis).
Assessments may include journal responses/rapid writes/reading logs, assigned close reading questions, comprehension quizzes, creative writing assignments, poetry explications, oral poetry slam, graphic organizers, language worksheets, and an identity mask.
This fall, we will be working on a Poetry Unit to ensure students' effective use of language, communication skills, and structure to express ideas. Through their poetry explications, creative writing, media connections, and spoken word poetry slam, students will begin to sharpen their skills. They will also review and extend understanding of literary and poetic devices, short essay structure, and elements of style, including making effective inferences from written and oral texts.
Readings for this unit are from Echoes 11, the Canadian Students' Guide, supplementary handouts, and online oral poetry/lyrics and will include a variety of poetic forms (sonnets, free verse, odes, and ekphrasis).
Assessments may include journal responses/rapid writes/reading logs, assigned close reading questions, comprehension quizzes, creative writing assignments, poetry explications, oral poetry slam, graphic organizers, language worksheets, and an identity mask.
Week 2: Media Connection -- Introduction to the Poetry Slam!
Harry Baker's Prime Number |
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Weeks 3-4: Media Connection -- Analysis of audience and purpose in the Donald Trump vs. Hillary Clinton Presidential Debate [Both speakers' responses to the question: How will you heal the racial divide? Approx. 40 minutes into the debate]
During these two weeks we have discussed and begun applying the following concepts: 1) Voice and Diction - Cultivating an understanding of the importance of word choice and standard/non-standard language choices 2) Audience and Purpose (discussion and debate) - Considering the features of both of these essential considerations as part of the reading and writing process. 3) Theme - Extending an understanding of theme beyond a single topic word, like "love" or "betrayal" 4) Rhyming and rhythm - Using the sonnet to understand end rhyme, and as an introduction to reading meter 5) Form and Structure - An introduction to the fixed, closed, lyric poetic structure 6) Poetic Devices (Quiz) - An introductory quiz and beginning to examine purpose/function |
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Weeks 5-6: Close Reading and Analysis
1) Differentiation between narrative and lyric poems.
2) Examination of poetic devices in action.
3) Focus on the purpose of punctuation, capitalization, and enjambment in poetry.
4) Introduction of free verse and political voice through "Coyote Goes to Toronto" by Thomas King.
5) Poetry as political action and social voice: Bob Dylan wins the Nobel Prize for Literature 2016. Analysis of song lyrics as potential vehicles for social/political action and empowerment. (Assignment: Media poster project and presentation.)
6) Media design elements analysis: View the poster at UNC through the following link to examine many different design errors to avoid in your presentation posters.
1) Differentiation between narrative and lyric poems.
2) Examination of poetic devices in action.
3) Focus on the purpose of punctuation, capitalization, and enjambment in poetry.
4) Introduction of free verse and political voice through "Coyote Goes to Toronto" by Thomas King.
5) Poetry as political action and social voice: Bob Dylan wins the Nobel Prize for Literature 2016. Analysis of song lyrics as potential vehicles for social/political action and empowerment. (Assignment: Media poster project and presentation.)
6) Media design elements analysis: View the poster at UNC through the following link to examine many different design errors to avoid in your presentation posters.