Com 11 - 12 Outline

Mr. Wm. Laven                                                                                                              Phone: 770-7750

Penticton Secondary School                                                                                                 

158 Eckhardt Ave. E., Penticton       V2A 1Z3

 

Communications 11-12

 

Course Outline 2014-2015 

Communications 11 is a course that is designed to teach the communicating skills of reading, writing, listening and observing. Through various print, audio and visual media, ideas about communicating will be explored for their meaning.

Unit Objectives: 

1.    Writing: an analysis of sentence structure and sentence combining, will introduce the student to better sentence writing competency. A study of grammar will enable a better understanding of sentence structure. Ongoing. 

2.    Short story: reading short fiction will enable students to identify the elements and devices of literary composition. Ongoing 

3.    Novel study: a study of one or more novels will enhance an appreciation for works of longer fiction.  

The Pearl by Steinbeck 

Lord Of the Flies by William Golding 

4.    Drama: comparative studies of different works of drama, in the visual mode enable a critical analysis of interpreting theater.

The Taming of the Shrew by Wm. Shakespeare 

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller 

5.    Poetry: readings of poems will provide an opportunity for the appreciation of the imaginative use of language and its application to lyrical prose.

Ongoing 

6.    Writing Skills – Ongoing  

7.    Film Study: a selection of biographical films will be analyzed for study of film as a learning medium.

Angela’s Ashes based on the novel by Frank McCourt  

Empire of the Sun based on the novel by J. G. Ballard and directed by Steven Spielberg

 

8.  Evaluation: 

Writing                                               30%

Classroom participation                    20%

Quizzes and tests                             20%

Projects                                            20%

Verbal response                               10% 

 

 

The Road Not Taken 

TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that, the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

 

By Robert Frost