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 Diploma Exam Schedule

Follow this link to see the diploma exam schedule from Alberta Education     

Texts You Will Need For Our Course:

• Hamlet by William Shakespeare (a digital copy is provided, but print is also available for those of you who love the smell and feel of books)
• Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
• One of six novels:
• Night,   by Elie Wiesel,   fiction, biography  1960 
  
  

  The Bean Trees, Barbara Kinsolver, Fiction, 1988

  Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster, Jon Krakauer, 1997, Non-fiction

  Stephen Hawking: Quest For A Theory Of Everything, Kitty Ferguson, 2001, Non-fiction

  The Stone Carvers, Jane Urquhart, 2001, Fiction (Canadian)

  The Republic of Nothing, Lesley Choyce, 2007, Fiction (Canadian)

• The English Language Arts Student Handbook (Link is here, or you can download below)             

Module Challenges 

Four of the seven units have Module Challenges (M1C1, M4C5, etc). You must complete the entire assignment, including all tasks in the challenge. At the end of the course, once all of the challenges have been completed, I will allow you to redo any assignment from any of the modules completed, provided you meet with me to discuss the reasons for this. You must have completed/submitted all assignments from each module for you to take advantage of this opportunity. Remember, it’s not always about the grades. It’s also largely about what you know, and what you can do with that knowledge going forward. If you feel that you did not understand something and you didn’t do your absolute best because of that, this would most likely be the assignment you should redo. However, if you feel like you grasp the concepts and now you simply want to boost your mark, we can decide which assignment weighs more and which would most likely influence your overall grade. After getting my approval on which assignment you will be redoing, you must resubmit your first assignment and the new assignment with a little paragraph about what it is you did not understand and why and how you understand it now and why. To get my approval you must contact me with which assignment it is you would like to redo and why you want to redo it. The explanation does not need to be fancy. It can be simple and straightforward. Once I have responded back to you with the go ahead, you may begin your redo.

Essay Exams, Midterm and the Final 

There are three essay exams, a midterm, and a final exam in the course. There are no retests for any of these exams. These marks are final.