Course Content
Orientation
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Orientation – Zoom meeting
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Course Outline
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Course Syllabus
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Unit 1 – Personal Resilience (15 hours)
In this unit, students will explore the theme of personal resilience. Students will read advice on resilience and stories related to resilience before analyzing and writing about resilience in analytical and creative ways. Weighting of summative work (subject to change): Unit 1 Resilience Assignment (7.78%), Unit 1 Personal Essay (7.78%)
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Lesson 1. Learning and Resilience
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Lesson 2. Storytelling and Resilience
ASSESSMENT OF LEARNING - Unit 1 Resilience (Assignment 1)
ASSESSMENT OF LEARNING - Unit 1 Personal Essay (Assignment 2)
Unit 2 – Shakespeare (35 hours)
In this unit, students will read and analyze Hamlet by William Shakespeare. Students will relate the themes of Shakespeare to their own lives and current events in society. Weighting of summative work (subject to change): Unit 2 Hamlet Acts 1-2 Assignment (7.78%), Unit 2 Hamlet Act 3 Assignment (7.78%), Unit 2 Hamlet Acts 4-5 Assignment (7.78%)
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Lesson 3. Hamlet
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ASSESSMENT OF LEARNING - Unit 2 Hamlet Acts 1-2 (Assignment 3)
ASSESSMENT OF LEARNING - Unit 2 Hamlet Act 3 (Assignment 4)
ASSESSMENT OF LEARNING - Unit 2 Hamlet Acts 4-5 (Assignment 5)
Unit 3 – Poetry and Song (15 hours)
In this unit, students will read and analyze a variety of fictional short stories, monologues, plays, and poems. Students will also creatively write their own short stories, plays, and poems. Weighting of summative work (subject to change): Unit 3 Poetry and Song Assignment (7.78%)
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Lesson 4. The Power of Words in Poems
Lesson 5. The Power of Words in Songs
ASSESSMENT OF LEARNING - Unit 3 Poetry and Song (Assignment 6)
Unit 4 – Literary Lenses (15 hours)
In this unit, students will read a variety of short stories and analyze them using different literary lenses (such as reader-response, historical/biographical, psychological, gender, socio-economic, and archetypal). Weighting of summative work (subject to change): Unit 4 Literary Lenses Assignment (7.78%)
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Lesson 6. Literary Lenses
ASSESSMENT OF LEARNING - Unit 4 Literary Lenses (Assignment 7)
Unit 5 – Novel and Final Tasks (30 hours)
In this unit, students will read and analyze the novel Hat Trick by Jacqueline Guest. Students will relate the themes of the novel to their own lives and current events in society. Weighting of summative work (subject to change): Unit 5 Hat Trick Part 1 Assignment (7.78%), Unit 5 Hat Trick Part 2 Assignment (7.78%)
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Lesson 7. Hat Trick (Novel)
ASSESSMENT OF LEARNING - Unit 5 Hat Trick Part 1 (Assignment 8)
ASSESSMENT OF LEARNING - Unit 5 Hat Trick Part 2 (Assignment 9)
Lesson 8. Culminating Project – Choosing a Novel
End-of-Course Tasks
End-of-Course Tasks: ISU Assignment (10.00%), Final Exam (20.00%)
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ASSESSMENT OF LEARNING - ISU Culminating Task
ASSESSMENT OF LEARNING - Final Exam
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Class: Online

Time: Saturdays 8:30 am – 10 am EST (these dates/times only highlight when the instructor will be LIVE. Course access is open 24/7 for students. Please adhere to the calendar and syllabus as days of the week for instructor live availability may change).

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