English Language Arts

The aim of English Language Arts is to enable each student to understand and appreciate language and use it confidently in a variety of situations for communication, personal satisfaction, and learning. Thus, the program is designed to develop the essential concepts, skills and attitudes required for effective communication. The Alberta Program of Studies provincial curriculum outlines six skill areas, or strands, which tie together an English Language Arts program. They are:

• reading,

• writing,

• viewing,

Grade 10

• listening,

• speaking, and

• representing.

This approach helps students develop an awareness of and interest in how language works, develop an understanding and appreciation of a wide range of language use, develop flexibility in using language for a variety of purposes, develop confidence in literary appreciation and analysis, and promote in students an enjoyment of, and lifelong interest in, literature. Through their course of study in English and Language Arts, students develop an appreciation that language and literature are creative processes that promote the development of imagination and creativity through self-expression.

IB MYP English Language and Literature, Y5 (ELA 10-1)

All Grade 10 students take this academically rigorous course, which meets both the Alberta Program of Studies outcomes and IB MYP, Year 5 objectives. It equips students with linguistic, analytical, and communicative skills that can also be used in an interdisciplinary manner across all other subject groups. In this course, students study a variety of genres, including short stories, novels, poetry, non-fiction, drama, and visual/ multimedia works. While the course is organized by genre, some material students study may be thematically linked. There are four units of study: Canadiana, including a variety of sources by Canadian text creators; Shakespeare Study, Macbeth (William Shakespeare); Modern Drama, The Crucible (Arthur Miller); Novel Study, Frankenstein (Mary Shelley) or Catcher in the Rye (JD Salinger).

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English Language Arts 20 (ELA 20-1)

PREREQUISITE: IB MYP English Language and Literature 10 or Principal approval

All Grade 10 students take this academically rigorous course, which meets both the Alberta Program of Studies outcomes and IB MYP, Year 5 objectives. It equips students with linguistic, analytical, and communicative skills that can also be used in an interdisciplinary manner across all other subject groups. In this course, students study a variety of genres, including short stories, novels, poetry, non-fiction, drama, and visual/ multimedia works. While the course is organized by genre, some material students study may be thematically linked. There are four units of study: Canadiana, including a variety of sources by Canadian text creators; Shakespeare Study, Macbeth (William Shakespeare); Modern Drama, The Crucible (Arthur Miller); Novel Study, Frankenstein (Mary Shelley) or Catcher in the Rye (JD Salinger).

IB DP English A: Literature SL, Y1

This course introduces the critical study and interpretation of written and spoken texts from a wide range of literary forms and non-literary text-types. The formal analysis of texts is supplemented by an awareness that meaning is not fixed but can change with respect to contexts of production and consumption. The course is organized into three areas of exploration and seven central concepts and focuses on the study of both literary and non-literary texts. Together, the three areas of exploration of the course allow the student to explore the language A in question through its cultural development and use, its media forms and functions, and its literature. Students develop skills in literary and textual analysis and also the ability to present their ideas effectively. A key aim is the development of critical literacy.

IB DP English A: Literature HL, Y1

The IB DP English Literature HL programme encourages students to see literary works as products of art and their authors as craftsmen whose methods of production can be analyzed in a variety of ways and on several levels. This is achieved through the emphasis placed on exploring the means used by different authors to convey their subjects in the works studied. It is further reinforced by the comparative framework emphasized for the study of these works in all parts of the programme. In view of the international nature of the IBO, the Language A programme is envisaged as having the potential to enrich the international awareness of IB students and develop attitudes of tolerance, empathy, and genuine respect for perspectives different from their own. The course content is comprised of the following elements: Poetry, Langston Hughes; Novel, Green Grass, Running Water (Thomas King); Poetry, Marilyn Dumont; Poetry – Works in translation, Wislawa Szymborska; Songwriters, Bob Dylan / John Lennon. Works studied in the second half of the year: Novel, Albert Camus, The Outsider; Short Stories, Haruki Murakami.

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• Students receive credit for English Language and Literature (ELA 20-1).

5 CREDITS

• Students receive credit for English Language and Literature (ELA 20-1).