ELA 30-2
Course Outline
LTCHS English Department
2011-2012
Welcome to English 30-2. This class is a five credit course required for an Alberta
Learning Diploma.
I.
Alberta Learning Outcomes for English Language Arts:
Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to:
a. Explore thoughts, ideas, feelings and experiences
b. Comprehend and respond personally and critically to oral, print and
other media texts
c. Manage ideas and information
d. Create oral, print, visual and multimedia texts and enhance the clarity
and artistry of communication
e. Respect, support and collaborate with others
II. Resources: Choice for resources used in this course include, but are not limited
to the following:
a. Anthologies: Discovering, Passages 12, Glide Path, Foundations of
English 12
b. Novels: Fallen Angels, Ordinary People, Night
c. Drama: All My Sons, Inherit the Wind, On Golden Pond, Hamlet,
Taming of the Shrew, Othello
d. Poetry: Poetry Alive: Reflections
Class Policies
1. Assignment Completion Policy:
Because assignment completion is critical to a student’s success in any given
course, teachers at Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School expect that
each student completes every assignment in a course. Students who do not
complete assignments will be assigned consequences, which may include lunch hour
detentions, study hall, opportunity room suspensions or other consequences
deemed necessary by the teacher. During these consequences, the student will
be expected to complete the unfinished work. With the student, teachers in the
ELA department will make every reasonable attempt to ensure assignment
completion for each student.
2. Plagiarism is a serious academic offence. Students are expected to be aware of
and to understand the LTCHS Student Honor Code and Plagiarism Policy.
There will be zero tolerance for such unethical behaviour.
3. Evaluation: Your ELA 30-2 mark will be calculated as follows:
Course Work:
50%
Part A Diploma Exam: 25%
Part B Diploma Exam: 25%
Your course work will be calculated using the following guidelines:
Informal Work:
40%
This includes minor homework assignments, quizzes and brief, informal writing.
Formal Work:
45%
This includes major assignments such as paragraphs, personal responses and
critical/analytical writing.
Representing:
15%
This includes listening, speaking, viewing and representing assignments.
Expectations
1. Attendance and Punctuality:
Your grade is directly linked to your attendance. The fewer classes you miss, the
better you will do in this class. If you must miss a class due to illness, please be
proactive in catching up with missed work. You will find materials that you missed in
the “Catch-Up Corner” near the front of the classroom.
Your punctuality is very much expected and appreciated. Arriving to class late
means that you miss important material. In addition, you disrupt the learning
environment. Please respect the other members of your class and arrive on time.
2. Participation:
Learning theory tells us that the more students discuss new material, the more they
learn. Please engage in the lessons. Talk about the literature and your
understandings. While this seems like a small request, your classroom discussions
will make a profound difference to what you learn in this course.
3. Assignment completion:
Doing the work assigned seems like an obvious point. However, many students
underestimate the impact of doing each assignment. In almost every case, a student
who fails ELA 30-2 is very capable, but he chooses to skip assignments and
therefore does not succeed in the class. Each assignment that I give you is
assigned for a specific reason. It will demonstrate your understanding and will
challenge you to think of the topic in a new way – this means that it will help you to
achieve well on the Diploma exam.
4. Respect:
In all of your behaviours, please exhibit respect for your classmates, teacher,
classroom environment and humanity. Behave in a way that demonstrates the kind
and mature student you have become in the past 12 years!
I am really looking forward to teaching you this semester. I am here to help you in any
way possible. Please feel comfortable asking for help with whatever issues arise.
Best of luck in ELA 30-2!