Overview of Course

Welcome to English 30-1!

Expectations in English Language Arts are that you will read and view texts and create your own text to demonstrate new understandings and skills.

Except for your novels or movies, your texts are all within this course. You will find three theme-based units of shorter texts in the main course page. To access the material you are to read, click on the icon or title of the unit. They will look like this:



Each unit will have three minor assignments that you will be guided through in a lesson format. They look like this:

The Audio/Visual and Response to Literature assignments have three assignments within them. You will be guided through the process of creating all three. For each unit, you will choose one to complete, so that by the end of the course, you will have completed all three.

The Scavenger Hunt will have specific items that you have to locate from the texts of the unit, indentify them correctly and post in the forum. Your classmates will also be posting there, so please feel free to comment on the posts, but remember to be constructive and not insulting.

Each unit will also have two major assignments: an essay and a study guide.

The essays are within lessons that look like this:

Unit One:

Unit Two:

Unit Three:

These assignments will have three choices for you. Unlike the minor assignments, you will only complete one of these, leaving the other two choices undone. The lessons will guide you through the process of writing each type of essay.

You will also complete a study guide for each unit's major text. For this course you will be reading Shakespeares' Hamlet, Miller's play Death of a Salesman and Kingsolver's novel The Bean Trees.

The final unit is a project [Final Project] in which you create your own themed unit based on another major text of your choice. You can read more about that in the unit!

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me:
Shelley Friesen
780 - 864 - 1602
shelleyfriesen@pwsd76.ab.ca