ENL1W Complete Course: Grade 9 English (De-streamed)
Everything you need to teach the new de-streamed Grade 9 English course for a full semester: six units, the literacy portfolio and conference, and a final exam.
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ENL1W Grade 9 English (De-streamed)
9 items
ENL1W Unit 1: Who I Am
Identity, voice and belonging: an identity iceberg, “Where I'm From” poems, point of view, memoir moves and a class story circle, ending with a personal narrative or spoken word showcase.
ENL1W Unit 2: Word Lab
How language works: morphemes, word detective strategies, sentence remixes, grammar, punctuation “crime scenes,” cohesive ties and fluency, ending with reader's theatre.
ENL1W Unit 3: Storywork
First Nations, Métis and Inuit voices: story circles, short films from the NFB's free Indigenous Cinema collection, E. Pauline Johnson's poetry and contemporary texts, ending with a comparison task.
ENL1W Unit 4: Digital Citizens
Digital footprints, privacy policies, kindness online, curated feeds, misinformation, fact-checking, a misinformation escape room and generative AI, ending with a fact-check report and a guide for younger students.
ENL1W Unit 5: Lit Circles
Novels in literature circles: a book tasting, six rotating roles, four circle meetings and mini-lessons on point of view, flashback, juxtaposition, allusion, inference, theme and style, ending with a literary analysis and book talk.
ENL1W Unit 6: Make It Better
Research, design and persuasion: a problem-finding walk, empathy maps, fair surveys and interviews, a design sprint, ethos, pathos and logos, a written proposal and a Dragons' Den style pitch.
ENL1W Portfolio and Final Exam
The literacy portfolio and conference, review lessons on sight texts, poetry and timed writing, and an original final evaluation with an answer key.
ENL1W Buffer Lessons
Five stand-alone ENL1W lessons for flex days, short weeks and supply teachers, each tied to specific curriculum expectations.
ENG2D Grade 10 English (Academic)
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ENG2D Complete Course: Grade 10 Academic English
Everything you need to teach Grade 10 Academic English for a full semester: six units, an independent novel study, the culminating task, a final exam and five buffer lessons.
ENG2D Unit 1: Voice and Story
Short stories and personal narrative: four classic stories, a heist-map approach to plot and a personal narrative in each student's own voice.
ENG2D Unit 2: Media Decoded
Algorithms, ads, influencers, AI fakes, news framing and thumbnails, ending with a public service campaign students design themselves.
ENG2D Unit 3: Speak Up
Rhetoric, argument and persuasive speech, from Lincoln and Sojourner Truth to a Shark Tank pitch and a three-minute talk.
ENG2D Unit 4: Power Plays (Macbeth)
Shakespeare's Macbeth through performance, investigation and debate: insults, a crime board, a group chat rewrite and a mock trial.
ENG2D Unit 5: Literacy Bootcamp (OSSLT)
Upbeat OSSLT preparation with original practice passages, a reading relay, an error-hunt escape room and the official online practice test.
ENG2D Unit 6: Language That Hits
Poetry, lyrics and spoken word: blackout poems, classic poems, song lyric breakdowns and a class slam.
ENG2D Independent Study and Final Exam
An independent novel study with check-ins, a student-led seminar and portfolio, and a final exam with an original sight passage.
ENG2D Buffer Lessons
Five no-prep, stand-alone English lessons for flex days, short weeks and supply teachers.
ENG3U Grade 11 English (University)
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ENG3U Complete Course: Grade 11 University English
Everything you need to teach Grade 11 University English for a full semester: six units, the full texts of Othello, The Great Gatsby and every poem, story and speech, an independent novel study, the culminating task and a final exam.
ENG3U Unit 1: Through the Lens
Five critical lenses and five public domain stories (Leacock, Chopin, Gilman, Sui Sin Far, Mansfield), ending with a lens seminar and a literary analysis essay.
ENG3U Unit 2: The Art of Argument
Rhetoric through Lincoln, Douglass, Sojourner Truth and Nellie McClung, then research, MLA and a researched argumentative essay.
ENG3U Unit 3: Othello
Shakespeare's Othello act by act: Iago's manipulation, race and power, gender and tragedy, with a full reading edition of the play included.
ENG3U Unit 4: Poetry Across the Ages
From Shakespeare's sonnets to the Harlem Renaissance, the First World War and Modernism: 27 public domain poems, sonnet surgery and a recorded poetry reading.
ENG3U Unit 5: The Great Gatsby
Is the American Dream a promise or an illusion? Fitzgerald's novel chapter by chapter, with the full text included.
ENG3U Unit 6: Truth on Screen
How documentaries and podcasts shape truth: documentary modes, an editing-room experiment, interview ethics, true crime, and a student podcast or mini-documentary.
ENG3U Independent Study and Final Exam
The end of the course: an independent novel study with a comparative essay and seminar, review lessons, and a two-hour final exam with an original sight story and marking guide.
ENG3U Buffer Lessons
Five stand-alone ENG3U lessons for flex days, short weeks and supply teachers, each tied to specific curriculum expectations.
NBE3U Grade 11 English: Understanding Contemporary First Nations, Métis and Inuit Voices
8 items
NBE3U Complete Course: Understanding Contemporary First Nations, Métis and Inuit Voices
A free, complete semester of Grade 11 University English through First Nations, Métis and Inuit voices: six units, the independent study, a final evaluation, a course map, a day-by-day schedule covering every expectation and a course outline.
NBE3U Unit 1: Where We Stand
Launch NBE3U with land, Nations and treaties, respectful terminology, cultural text forms such as wampum, the four course themes and the truth of residential schools, ending in a research brief and an inquiry roundtable.
NBE3U Unit 2: Behind the Image
Deconstruct how First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples have been represented in Canadian fiction, poetry, photographs, team names, film, textbooks and news, then answer stereotypes with the work of Indigenous creators.
NBE3U Unit 3: Writing Back
Read Indigenous writers who answered their settler readers between 1885 and 1921: E. Pauline Johnson, Zitkála-Šá and Charles Eastman, included in full in a 32-page reader, with a comparative essay and a “then and now” seminar.
NBE3U Unit 4: Living Words
Study First Nations, Métis and Inuit oral traditions as texts, law and evidence: listening practices, wampum, story figures and protocols, the potlatch ban, revitalization and listening to a recorded teaching.
NBE3U Unit 5: Stories Now
Literature circles on contemporary novels by First Nations, Métis and Inuit writers, chosen by the teacher, plus poems, a play and short fiction, the people who make Indigenous literature happen, and a literary essay.
NBE3U Unit 6: Signal and Story
Contemporary Indigenous media: APTN, NFB Indigenous Cinema, Isuma and Atanarjuat, documentary, music, podcasts, Idle No More and language technology, ending in a student-made spotlight media text.
NBE3U Independent Study and Final
The last unit of NBE3U: an independent study of a book by a First Nations, Métis or Inuit author with a comparative essay and seminar, review lessons, and a final evaluation built on an original sight text.
ENG4U Grade 12 English (University)
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ENG4U Complete Course: Grade 12 University English
Everything you need to teach Grade 12 University English for a full semester: six units, the full texts of Hamlet, Frankenstein, A Doll's House, Trifles, The Machine Stops and every essay, poem and story, an independent study with critical sources, the culminating task and a final exam.
ENG4U Unit 1: The Essayist's Craft
Six classic essays from Swift to Du Bois, rhetorical analysis, a satire lab and an original essay workshopped and published at an essay salon.
ENG4U Unit 2: Hamlet
Shakespeare's Hamlet act by act: a Denmark case file, an “Is Hamlet mad?” evidence board, three stagings, four centuries of critics and a soliloquy showcase.
ENG4U Unit 3: Frankenstein
Mary Shelley's 1818 Frankenstein in full: three narrators, a responsibility ledger, the sublime, a tribunal and a researched essay with two critical sources.
ENG4U Unit 4: Doors That Slam
Ibsen's A Doll's House and Glaspell's Trifles in full: power maps, Nora's ledger, a jury room, a missing-scene workshop and staged readings.
ENG4U Unit 5: Voices of This Land
E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) in full, Duncan Campbell Scott read critically, the truth of residential schools, contemporary Indigenous creators and an inquiry presentation.
ENG4U Unit 6: The Machine Stops
Forster's 1909 “The Machine Stops” in full, Zamyatin's We, the attention economy, design tricks, an algorithm game, spot-the-AI and a counter-campaign pitch.
ENG4U Independent Study and Final Exam
The end of the course: an independent novel study with critical sources, a comparative essay and seminar, review lessons, and a two-hour final exam with an original sight essay and marking guide.
ENG4U Buffer Lessons
Five stand-alone ENG4U lessons for flex days, short weeks and supply teachers, each tied to specific curriculum expectations.
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