A complete outline of the ELA A10 course including: themes, questions for deeper understanding, "must do" lists, outcomes and I Can statements.
Explicitly teach connotative and denotative language. (See notes & scanned advertisements, which are completed as a class – teacher directed - and handout, which is done in a small group and then corrected as a class). Students will then partner up, select an innocent everyday item, get it approved, and design a “safe” or “family friendly” advertisement for placement in an innocuous magazine such as Family Circle, Canadian Home Workshop, or Knitting World. Students then start thinking outside the box for what loaded language they can incorporate into their advertisement to appeal to readers’ humour and sell to a very different audience. These advertisements will be somewhat racier and more riské as they are designed to be placed in magazines such as Men’s Health, Cosmopolitan, and the like. I then encourage students to complete the ads using an appropriate computer program, but this isn’t a set requirement. Some students are very artistic and prefer to free hand their work.
Project:
You are a teenager with an amazing idea for a new documentary that you are sure everyone will want to see! You just know that if this documentary gets picked up you will hit the big time. In order for this documentary to hit the big screen, you first have to pitch it to a big time Executive Director, and convince him/her that this film is worth the money.
In this excerpt, Robert Ross, a 19-year-old Canadian officer during WWI, "faces the horrors of war and makes desperate decisions to protect the soldiers whose lives he holds in his hands."
The following resources includes literature examples for modules in grade 10 ELA.
The following are Saskatchewan's Core Learning Resources and curriculum's for grades 1-11.
Human beings all over the world are in the middle of a technological revolution, the likes of which have not been seen since the industrial revolution. New inventions are being created daily with varying degrees of success. However, we are also dependent on many inventions that may not be new, but are imperative for our daily lives. In this lesson, students will choose one invention and create an inquiry poster, explaining its significance.
In the past, Eatonia Colony School published a school newspaper monthly. It was decided that while focusing on creativity and collaboration, we would bring the paper to life again! This project was a collaborative school effort. Every student in grades 1-8 participated and had a job to do. We brainstormed ideas together and put our two oldest girls in charge of being the editors. We set deadlines and every grade/student was in charge of designing their own pages.
We have included pictures of our process as well as the cover, table of contents and pictures from our finished product! We have also included a lesson plan and our assessment rubrics.
The following resources include:
- Grade 1 Rubric: Comprehend and Respond
- Grade 1 I Can Statements
- Key Language Cues and Conventions for Grade 1
These 4 point rubric exemplars were developed to provide a consistent and common resource that aligns with the Saskatchewan curriculum and provide opportunities for transfer of responsibility between educator and student. These rubrics are designed to be edited by educator and student.
This Your Curriculum at a Glance document
was developed to provide a complete outline of the Saskatchewan ELA 2 curriculum including: unit themes, questions for deeper understanding, must do
lists, outcomes and I can statements. This document should be shared with
students for transfer of responsibility opportunities.
Choice essays in ELA 20 under the sub-theme of Opportunities and Obstacles.
Fairy tale lesson that incorporates choice into the lesson, content, and assignment. Users can easily customize to their own interests and abilities.
The following resource includes "I Can Statements" that students should be able to achieve at the end of ELA 20.
This assignment is intended to display your understanding of the novel that you have chosen. Written work should be typed (12pt font) and double-spaced. You will have some class time to work on this assignment, but it is sometimes difficult to book computer time that will accommodate our schedule. Please plan ahead. You may choose a book from any of the senior ELA sections, but I would prefer if you tried to find a novel in the ELA 20 section before looking elsewhere.
Topics are mildly controversial and therefore tend to be higher interest to grade 11 students. They are responsible for researching various opinions/practices/laws in Canada and internationally and analyzing/critiquing the content prior to writing a cohesive paper containing both expository information and objectively stated conclusions.
These rubric exemplars were developed to provide a consistent and common resource that aligns with the Saskatchewan curriculum and provide opportunities for transfer of responsibility between educator and student. These rubrics are designed to be edited by educator and student.
For this assignment, students were asked a series of open-ended questions relating to the Civil Rights Movement. Students scanned QR Codes, which took them directly to the assignment. The prompts allowed students to think critically, while investigating what the Civil Rights Movement was, and predict how the events in To Kill a Mockingbird would have been different if the Civil Rights Movement had occurred prior to the setting of the book. While researching, students were only allowed to use Sweet Search, a site that searches for only credible sources. Questions included: Who was Martin Luther King Jr? What was the Civil Rights Movement? Using specific examples from To Kill a Mockingbird, consider how the portrayal and treatment of African American people may have been different if the Civil Rights Movement had occurred before the events in the novel took place.
A complete outline of ELA 20, including: themes, questions for deeper understanding, must do lists, outcomes and I can statements.
A complete outline of the ELA 20 course including: themes, questions for deeper understanding, "must do" lists, outcomes, and I Can statements.