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Introduction: What This Book Will Do for You
NARRATION
Unit 1
Unit 2
Unit 3
Dramatic Monologue: “My Last Duchess” by
Robert Browning, “To a Sad Daughter” by
Michael Ondaatje, “Changes” by D. Ginette Clarke
Analyzing the Models
Writer’s Workshop
Writer’s Craft: Style—caesura and enjambment
Writer’s Craft: Conventions—nouns, verbs,
adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, prepositions,
conjunctions, and interjections
Oral Language: metre in poetry
Reflect on Your Learning
Short Story: “Borders” by Thomas King
Analyzing the Model
Writer’s Workshop
Writer’s Craft: Style—flashbacks
Writer’s Craft: Conventions—subjects and predicates,
objects and subject complements to complete
transitive and linking verbs
Oral Language: realistic dialogue
Media Link: juxtaposition of images in films
Reflect on Your Learning
Parody and Satire: “Jack and the Beanstalk” by
James Finn Garner, “The Golfomaniac” by
Stephen Leacock
Analyzing the Models
Writer’s Workshop
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Writer’s Craft: Style—stylistic devices to establish
tone
Writer’s Craft: Conventions—phrases and clauses
Media Link: comic-strip parody
Reflect on Your Learning
Unit 4
Personal Narrative: “Why I Write Poetry” by
Margaret Atwood
Analyzing the Model
Writer’s Workshop
Writer’s Craft: Style—language and syntax
Writer’s Craft: Conventions—participles, gerunds,
and infinitives
Media Link: techniques of presenting in a variety
of media
Reflect on Your Learning
EXPOSITION
Unit 5
Unit 6
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Literary Comparison: “Trouble in Teendom”
by Jean Stringam
Analyzing the Model
Writer’s Workshop
Writer’s Craft: Style—quotations within essay
Writer’s Craft: Conventions—capitalizing and
punctuating quotations (MLA format) and
citing works in a bibliography
Oral Language: researching and reporting
Reflect on Your Learning
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Cause-and-Effect Essay: “Living with Nature”
by David Suzuki, “Send in the Clowns” by
Kristine Nyhout
Analyzing the Models
Writer’s Workshop
Writer’s Craft: Style—parallel structure
Writer’s Craft: Conventions—verb tenses
Oral Language: panel discussion
Media Link: Web-page creation
Reflect on Your Learning
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Unit 7
Unit 8
Classification Essay: “Underwear and Elevator
Games” by Don Aker
Analyzing the Model
Writer’s Workshop
Writer’s Craft: Style—show by example,
anecdote, and analogy
Writer’s Craft: Conventions—coordinating and
subordinating conjunctions
Media Link: magazine creation
Reflect on Your Learning
Hard News Story: “Divers open sub’s hatch”
by Geoffrey York, “For Australian Olympic
officials, all medal roads lead to Rome” from
Vancouver Sun
Analyzing the Models
Writer’s Workshop
Writer’s Craft: Style—connotations and concrete
words
Writer’s Craft: Conventions—spelling patterns and
strategies
Oral Language: oral news report
Media Link: different media coverage of an event
Reflect on Your Learning
PERSUASION
Unit 9
Persuasive Essay: “Notes for a National Broadcast”
by Pierre Elliott Trudeau, “Why Dogs Are the Cat’s
Pyjamas” by John Riley, “A Dogged Defence of Our
Feline Friends” by James Taylor
Analyzing the Models
Writer’s Workshop
Writer’s Craft: Style—credibility, logic, and emotion
Writer’s Craft: Conventions—synonyms, antonyms,
homophones, and commonly misused words
Oral Language: persuasion in speeches
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Media Link: use of credibility, logic, and emotional
appeals in media
Reflect on Your Learning
Unit 10
Unit 11
Unit 12
Film Review: “So good to see that big rubber foot
again” by Katrina Onstad, “‘G2K’: It’s not easy being
green, mean” by Susan Wloszczyna
Analyzing the Models
Writer’s Workshop
Writer’s Craft: Style—language appropriate to
purpose, audience, and topic
Writer’s Craft: Conventions—commas, dashes,
and parentheses
Media Link: film poster
Reflect on Your Learning
Problem–Solution Essay: “A Better Garbage Solution
than Dumping in the Lake” by Cameron Smith
Analyzing the Model
Writer’s Workshop
Writer’s Craft: Style—wordiness
Writer’s Craft: Conventions—subject–verb and
pronoun–antecedent agreement
Oral Language: debate
Media Link: problem–solution format in a
variety of media
Reflect on Your Learning
Advertisement: United Way, Nortel Networks™,
IBM® Canada/HMV
Analyzing the Models
Writer’s Workshop
Writer’s Craft: Style—design techniques
Writer’s Craft: Conventions—unconventional
use of grammar, spelling, capitalization, and
punctuation
Media Link: analyzing television commercials
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WRITING THAT WORKS
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Memos and E-mail
Analyzing the Models
Writer’s Workshop
Writer’s Craft: Style—organizational pattern
and voice
Writer’s Craft: Conventions—capitalization
and writing numbers
Oral Language: oral presentation and voice mail
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Proposal: “More Than Skin Deep”
Analyzing the Model
Writer’s Workshop
Writer’s Craft: Style—appropriate writing style
Writer’s Craft: Conventions—spelling correctly and
avoiding dangling and misplaced modifiers
Oral Language—oral presentation of a proposal
Reflect on Your Learning
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Unit 15
Process Analysis: “Creating a Successful Web Site”
by Doug Lowe
Analyzing the Model
Writer’s Workshop
Writer’s Craft: Style—appropriate language style
Writer’s Craft: Conventions—design elements
Oral Language: explaining a process orally
Reflect on Your Learning
Appendix
Handbook
Index
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