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English, Grade 10
Academic ENG2D
This course is designed to extend the range of oral communication, reading, writing, and media literacy skills that students need for success in their secondary school academic programs and in their daily lives. Students will analyse literary texts from contemporary and historical periods, interpret and evaluate informational and graphic texts, and create oral, written, and media texts in a variety of forms. An important focus will be on the selective use of strategies that contribute to effective communication. This course is intended to prepare students for the compulsory Grade 11 university or college prepara- tion course.
Prerequisite: English, Grade 9, Academic or Applied
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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