ELA+9+Course+Description

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 * English** **Language Arts 9 is designed around the following goals from the Saskatchewan curriculum**:
 * **Comprehend and Respond**: Students will extend their abilities to view, listen to, read, comprehend, and respond to a range of contemporary and traditional grade-level texts in a variety of forms (oral, print, and other texts) from First Nations/Metis and other cultures for a variety of purposes including for learning, interest, and enjoyment.
 * **Compose and Create**: Students will extend their abilities to represent, speak, and write to explore and present thoughts, feelings, and experiences in a variety of forms for a variety of forms for a variety of purposes and audiences.
 * **Assess and Reflect**: Students will assess their own language skills, discuss the skills of effective viewers, representers, listeners, speakers, readers, and writers; and set goals for future improvement.


 * During the course we will taking a look at the following themes and topics**:


 * **Exploring Loyalty, Love, and Relationships** - All that I am, In Search of Self
 * **Conflicts, Challenges, Issues, and Choices** - Doing the Right Thing
 * **Indigenous and Norse Narratives** - Looking Beyond - Imagining New Worlds and the Future or Endless Possibilities
 * **Our Shared Linguistic and Cultural Roots** - Listen to the Music and Images and Information
 * **Surviving and Conquering** - Building a Better Planet, In Touch, Building a Final Frontier


 * Many of the questions we will be looking at, within the course, will be as follows**:

**Comprehend and Respond (CR):**
 * What is this text saying? Explicitly? Implicitly?
 * How was the text created?
 * What forms and conventions are used?
 * In what context and for what purpose was the text created?
 * How can I interpret the text?
 * What evidence do I have to support this interpretation?
 * What does this text have to say about identity, social responsibility, and efficacy (making a difference)?
 * Whose voices are heard and whose are not?
 * Why are viewing, listening, and reading important?

Compose and Create (CC)**:**
 * What do I know, and how can I express that?
 * How can I best express these ideas for this audience and purpose?
 * What forms can I use? What are the conventions of those forms?
 * How can I communicate most clearly and effectively?
 * Do my messages demonstrate a deep understanding of the subject matter?
 * Are my compositions and presentations well-crafted, fully developed, coherent, and appropriate to my purpose and audience?
 * To what extent is the voice, pen, or screen mightier than the sword?

**Assess and Reflect (AR):**
 * Why is effective language usage and effective communication important?
 * What are the characteristics of effective viewers, listeners, readers, representers, speakers, and writers? What do they do, feel, look like, or sound like?
 * What are my teacher's and my personal expectations for viewing, listening, reading, representing, speaking, and writing?
 * What are my personal goals for becoming a more effective viewer, listener, reader, representer, speaker, and writer? How will I achieve them?

Here is a copy of My classroom rules and expectations. Please feel free to contact me at young.brett@ccsmj.ca if you have any questions: