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R.C PALMER SECONDARY SCHOOL
Home of the Griffins
Senior English
From grade 10-12 students are expected to take one appropriate senior English course per year at R.C Palmer.
These courses, compared to English explored in grades 8-9, further scrutinize texts to a deeper level.
Unlike other regular academic courses, students are briefly able to pick which English course they would prefer.
For example, a grade 10 student studying English at Palmer gets to choose between Composition and Literary Studies.
Courses Offered
Composition & Spoken Language 10
Prerequisite: English Language Arts 9
Composition & Spoken Language 10 is designed to develop students' comprehension of written communication.
Through the critical processes of questioning, exploring, sampling, and scrutinizing many forms of oral composition, students will become their own drafters, reflectors, and revisers.
Moreover, students taking this course will be given the opportunity to preform, improving their storytelling and public speaking abilities.
Students studying English at Palmer can choose between Composition or Literary Studies 10.
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Literary Studies & Creative Writing 10
Prerequisite: English Language Arts 9
Literary Studies and Creative Writing 10 specializes in the literatures of specific eras, geographies, and themes in a multitude of media.
When students pick up on the nuances of text studied, they will be given the opportunity to develop their skills through various processes of writing and design.
Students will also explore themes of identity, memory, and story to develop their sense of responsibility in a growing world.
Students studying English at Palmer can choose between Composition or Literary Studies 10.
Literary Studies 11
Prerequisite: Literary Studies or Composition 10
Literary Studies 11, beyond covering the main core competencies, explores literature significantly more advanced compared to previous grades'.
Students will enhance their literacy, higher-thinking, receptive, and expressive skills through exploring a vast palette of literature from specific periods, themes, authors, and areas of the world.
English Studies 12
Prerequisite: Literary Studies 11
English studies 12 builds upon and cements all of the students' learning experiences in previous English courses.
Students are given the opportunity to enhance their communication skills to adapt to the a variety of contexts and for their career goals in the professional world.
Students will continue to explore texts from around the world from a variety of different sources, exploring a diversity of worldviews; ultimately, as students understand the factors that shape identity, they will deepen their understandings of themselves.
A picture board found on the wall of Ms. Luccock's, an English teacher's, classroom.
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