This course helps students continue developing foundational skills in reading, writing, oral communication, and visual communication. Students strengthen media and critical literacy, apply transferable and digital literacy skills, connect language learning to lived experiences and society, and build literacy across the curriculum.
Prerequisite: None
This course strengthens oral communication, reading, writing, and media literacy skills for academic programs and everyday life. Students analyze literary, informational, and graphic texts; create oral, written, and media texts; and use strategies that support clear, effective communication.
Prerequisite: English, Grade 9, Academic or Applied
This course develops the knowledge and skills needed to plan and deliver effective presentations in formal and informal settings. Students research persuasive speaking, design and rehearse presentations for different audiences, use visual and technological supports, and assess their own and others' speaking effectiveness.
Prerequisite: English, Grade 10, Academic or Applied
This course helps students acquire and demonstrate the cross-curricular literacy skills assessed by the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test. Students read informational, narrative, and graphic texts and write summaries, information paragraphs, opinion pieces, and news reports while maintaining a portfolio of reading and writing work.
Prerequisite: Students must meet the provincial eligibility requirements for taking the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Course.
This course emphasizes the development of literacy, communication, and critical and creative thinking skills necessary for success in academic and daily life. Students will analyze challenging literary texts from various periods, countries, and cultures, as well as a range of informational and graphic texts, and create oral, written, and media texts in a variety of forms. An important focus will be on using language with precision and clarity and incorporating stylistic devices appropriately and effectively. The course is intended to prepare students for the compulsory Grade 12 university or college preparation course.
This course consolidates advanced literacy, communication, and critical and creative thinking skills. Students analyze challenging literary texts from different periods, countries, and cultures, evaluate informational and graphic texts, and create oral, written, and media texts using academic language and effective reading and writing strategies.
Prerequisite: English, Grade 11, University Preparation
This course consolidates literacy, communication, and critical and creative thinking skills for college, work, and daily life. Students analyze informational, graphic, and literary texts from various cultures and create oral, written, and media texts for practical and academic purposes with precision and clarity.
Prerequisite: English, Grade 11, College Preparation
