Course Descriptions

ELA 30A

ELA 30 B

ELA 10 A

Prerequisite:
ELA 9A and 9B

Instructor - Ms. M. Edlund

Description: ELA 10A explores human dimensions relative to important understandings, issues, and insights into human nature, value and belief systems, the social condition, the natural and constructed worlds, technology, and the history of humanity. Foundational stories, poetry, fiction/non-fiction novels and the play The Miracle Worker will focus on the themes: ‘The Challenges of Life’ (Explaining the World through our Foundational Stories; Destiny and Challenges of Life; Human Existence; Decisions) and ‘The Mysteries of Life’ (The Joys of Mind, Body, and Spirit; Mysteries of the Human Brain and Imagination; Mysteries of this World and Beyond; The Fantastic).

Outcomes will explain what students will learn and will specify the skills, strategies, abilities, and understandings students are expected to be able to demonstrate. This course provides opportunities for students to view, listen, read, speak, write, and use other forms of representing. This course provides opportunities for inquiry learning, social responsibility, personal agency (acting to make something better) and self-reflection.

Resource List: The following required books can be purchased from:

Central Resource Centre
Saskatoon Public Schools
     3rd floor
      310 - 21st Street East
      683-8236 or 683-8335

• THE CHRYSALIDS
  By: John Wyndham
  ISBN 0-14-001308-3
   
• THE MIRACLE WORKER
  By: William Gibson
  ISBN-13: 978-0-7434-5758-3
 
• Non-fiction novel (student will purchase one choice from this list)
  All of Baba's Children Myrna Kostash
  Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors Piers Paul Read
  Malcolm X Jack Rummell
  "Klee Wyck (CAN, I/M)" Emily Carr
  Born Hutterite Samuel Hofer
  Nothing too good for a Cowboy Hobson, Richmond P. McClelland & Stewart Limited (MCC), 1955. 252 p. ISBN 0-7710-1862-2
  Native Stories: Foreign Battlefields (Print-Non-Fiction). Summerby, Janice. Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC), 1993. ISBN 0-662-19850-6

Additional Requirements:
E-Mail - that handles attachments (preferably not Hotmail)
Current Browser (Java Enabled)
Internet Access
Adobe Acrobat Reader
Word Processor Software
    {Preferred Software - Microsoft Office}
Flash Player, Shockwave Player and Windows Media Player

ELA 10 B

Prerequisite:
ELA 9A and 9B

Instructor - Ms. M. Edlund

Description: ELA 10B explores identity, (diversity of being), social responsibility (degrees of responsibility) and social action (justice and fairness). The concepts in this course provide students with a deeper understanding of themselves, their constructed worlds, nature, and how they can become agents of change. Foundational stories, poetry, non-fiction/fiction novels and plays (Shakespeare) will focus on the themes: Equity and Ethics (Who and What is Right?; Empowerment; Degrees of Responsibility; Rights and Responsibilities; Justice and Fairness) The World Around and Within Us (Perspectives; Diversity of Being; The Natural and the Constructed Worlds; Individuals and Communities; Stewardship).

Outcomes will explain what students will learn and will specify the skills, strategies, abilities, and understandings students are expected to be able to demonstrate. This course provides opportunities for students to view, listen, read, speak, write, and use other forms of representing such as visual or multimedia. This course provides opportunities for inquiry learning, social responsibility, personal agency (acting to make something better) and self-reflection.

Resource List: The following required books can be purchased from:

Central Resource Centre
Saskatoon Public Schools
      3rd floor
      310 - 21st Street East
      683-8236 or 683-8335

• OF MICE AND MEN
  By: John Steinbeck
  ISBN 0-14-01-7739-6
  
  
• MACBETH
  ISBN-13: 978-0-7747-1480-8


• Non-Fiction Novel (students will purchase one choice from this list)
  Gorillas in the Mist Dian Fossey
  People of the Deer Farley Mowat
  Death on the Ice Robert Ryan
  No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War Anita Lobel. Greenwillow Bks. (HCP), 1998. 193 p. ISBN 0-68815935-4
  Wild Animals I Have Known by Ernest Thompson Seton (read it online at) http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/readfile?fk_files=1450937&pageno=2
  

Additional Requirements:
E-Mail - that handles attachments
Current Browser (Java Enabled)
Internet Access
Adobe Acrobat Reader
Word Processor Software
    {Preferred Software - Microsoft Office}
Flash Player, Shockwave Player and Windows Media Player

ELA 20

Prerequisite:
ELA 10A and 10B

Instructor - Mr. M. Lysak

Description:The English Language Arts 20 course is organized around themes that are of interest to adolescents and that focus on self, society, and what it means to be human. Students will study novels (one independent), non-fiction, drama, short stories, poetry and film and media. Recollection --A Journey Back: Sub themes include: Innocence and Experience, Family and Peer Relationships, School and Education, Wonder and Imagination, Triumphs and Defeats. Anticipation--On the Threshold: Sub themes include: Roles and Responsibilities, Choices and Commitments, Perspectives and Passages, Values and Goals.

Resource List:The following required books can be purchased from:

Central Resource Centre
Saskatoon Public Schools
      3rd floor
      310 - 21st Street East
      683-8236 or 683-8335

• KEEPER 'N ME
  By: Richard Wagamese
  ISBN-13: 978-0-385-66283-3
  
  
• THE GLASS MENAGERIE
  By: Tennesee Williams

Additional Requirements:
E-Mail - that handles attachments.
Current Browser (Java Enabled)
Internet Access
Adobe Acrobat Reader
Word Processor Software
    {Preferred Software - Microsoft Office}
Flash Player, Shockwave Player and Windows Media Player

ELA 30 A

Prerequisite:
English 20

Instructor - Mr. R. Nordick

Description:English language Arts A30 is organized around themes that focus on Canadian literature and society. Themes in this curriculum are: Canada--Diverse Landscapes and Peoples and Canada--Diverse Voices.

Resource List:The following required books can be purchased from:

Central Resource Centre
Saskatoon Public Schools
      3rd floor
      310 - 21st Street East
      683-8236 or 683-8335

• TIGERS OF THE SNOW
  By: James A. MacNeill
  ISBN 0-17-633043-7
  
  
• IN THE CLEAR
  By: Allan Forrie et el
  ISBN 1-895449-84-7
   
• THE STONE ANGEL
  By: Margaret Laurence
  ISBN 0-7710-9989-4
  
  
• BILLY BISHOP GOES TO WAR By: John Gray with Eric Peterson Can be found as a single play or is found in: "Modern Canadian Plays, Vol. II; On Stage 2" (Available for borrow from the Saskatoon Public Library as well as many school Libraries etc.)

Additional Requirements:
E-Mail - that handles attachments (preferably not Hotmail)
Current Browser (Java Enabled)
Internet Access
Adobe Acrobat Reader
Word Processor Software
    {Preferred Software - Microsoft Office}
Flash Player, Shockwave Player and Windows Media Player

ELA 30 B

Prerequisite:
English 20

Instructor - Mr. R. Nordick

Description: English Language Arts B30 examines global perspectives using traditional and contemporary world literature in a comparative manner. The three themes are World Perspectives: Cultural Heroes; World Perspectives: The Human Condition; and World Perspectives: The Social Experience.

Resource List:The following required books can be purchased from:

Central Resource Centre
Saskatoon Public Schools
      3rd floor
      310 - 21st Street East
      683-8236 or 683-8335

• HAMLET
  By: William Shakespeare
   
• DEATH OF A SALESMAN
  By: Arthur Miller
   
• LORD OF THE FLIES
  By: William Golding

Additional Requirements:
E-Mail - that handles attachments (preferably not Hotmail)
Current Browser (Java Enabled)
Internet Access
Adobe Acrobat Reader
Word Processor Software
    {Preferred Software - Microsoft Office}
Flash Player, Shockwave Player and Windows Media Player