Texts and Materials You Need for this Course


To complete this course you need:

Sightlines 10 (Prentice Hall)

Reading and Writing for Success (Prentice Hall)

A dictionary, thesaurus, and writer’s handbook

Tutorials and Audio files: There are materials that you have to review in order to complete the assignments. These resources are hyperlinked in red throughout the course.

Access to the graphic novel:
  • Sugar Falls:  A Residential School Story created by David Alexander Robertson and Scott Robertson. This powerful graphic novel is based on the authenticated renditions of Betty Ross, an elder from Cross Lake First Nation. Betty recounts her childhood experiences while living in a Residential School.

(*This graphic novel contains mature content; reader/viewer discretion is advised. An alternative graphic novel can be arranged if requested, but the alternative novel may be longer in length.)

Access to one 
of the following novels: 
  • The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
  • Deathwatch (Robb White)
  • Speak (Laurie Halse Anderson)
  • A Monster Calls (Patrick Ness)
You may read more about each novel, to assist you with your novel choice, at the beginning of Unit 2 on the "Novel Choice List" course page.
Access to one of the following films: 
  • A Knight’s Tale
  • October Sky
  • The Blind Side
  • The Legend of Bagger Vance