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English, Grade 9
Applied ENG1P
This course is designed to develop the key oral communication, reading, writing, and media literacy skills students need for success in secondary school and daily life. Students will read, interpret, and create a variety of informational, literary, and graphic texts. An important focus will be on identifying and using appropriate strategies and processes to improve students’ comprehension of texts and to help them communicate clearly and effectively. The course is intended to prepare students for the Grade 10 applied English course, which leads to college or workplace preparation courses in Grades 11 and 12.
Prerequisite: None
Key to Footnote References
The footnotes throughout this course contain abbreviated references to teacher resource guides in the ministry’s “Think Literacy Library”, available on the ministry website, at www.edu.gov.on.ca. The guides are identified as follows:
TLCC 7-12 refers to the main guide, Think Literacy: Cross-Curricular Approaches, Grades 7–12. TLE 7-9 and TLE 10-12 refer to the subject-specific guides for Language/English, Grades 7–9,
and English, Grades 10–12.
Other subject-specific guides are identified by the initials “TL”, followed by the name of the subject (e.g., Computer Integration; Library Research; Media; Technological Education) and the grades the resource guide covers (e.g., TL Computer Integration 7-12).
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