1. Your last English class ever?!
Welcome to English 4CI
Your last English class ever?!

2. Course Overview
Term One will be based on fiction: short stories, movies of different genres, an independent novel of your selection
Term Two will be based on non- fiction: Beyond the Horizon (true-to- life experiences), informal essays, documentaries

3. Term One: Blogging You will create your own blogs on the class wiki
First blog (today!): introduce yourself!
Second blog: write a movie review of one of your favourite movies
Further blog topics TBA
Blogs will be marked for completion and content

4. Term One: APA Research Report
We will begin this week in the library writing a “review of the literature” on a topic of interest to you
It will involve searching the WRDSB Virtual Library Database for four relevant articles on your topic
You will summarize each article, and then offer your own opinion
You will follow correct APA style
Basically completed in class

5. Term One: Commercial Genre Unit
We will view movies and read stories in each of the following genres:
Fantasy (Lord of the Rings
excerpts)
Science fiction (Star Wars)
Action/adventure (Hanna, plus 1 superhero movie)
Horror
Romance (500 Days of Summer)
Tests on genres
You will also write a “high
epic fantasy” story

6. Term One: Independent Novel
In the upcoming weeks you will select an independent novel in one of the genres mentioned in the previous slide
you will create and present a PowerPoint Genre presentation on this novel (at the end of the unit)

7. Term Two: Non-Fiction
Our class read will be Beyond the Horizon by Colin Angus
In this memoir, he tells of his race to become the first person to complete a circumnavigation of the globe by human power (eg. hiking, biking, rowing)
You will have plenty of reading time in class and you will follow his journey using a world map
Also you write some own personal memoirs
Reading tests

8. Term Two: Ideas and Issues (Summative)
In this unit we will view various documentaries (eg. Bowling for Columbine, The Cove, ??) and read several informal essays and listen to podcasts on current issues
There will be a documentary test and in-class exam

9. Term Two: Analytic Report on a Website (Summative)
We will examine models of reports on issues of personal interest (eg. “Which gym membership is the most economical for the services provided?”)
You will write an analytic report including:
Steps of analysis (problem, facts, possible solutions, evaluation of solutions, etc.)
Pictures, graphs, statistics
Appendices
Internal and external links
A link from your blog to your report

10. Just imagine what you might do with your English credit!