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GRADE 11 - GENERAL ACADEMIC STRAND (GAS) → Grade 11 - GAS 1st Semester

Reading and Writing


Description
-A course developing university-wide skills of reading, writing, and analysis. Addresses the needs of students in English and other disciplines where both writing and reading have an important role in learning. The course fosters personal writing skills and also introduces writing as a subject of study in itself.
Content
  • SYLLABUS
  • MID TERM
  • A. Critical Reading-Claims in Text
  • A. Critical Reading
  • A. Implied main ideas and a reading strategy to figure them out
  • A. English: Reading Terms - Imply Infer Implicit Explicit
  • A. Identifying Explicit and Implicit Main Ideas in the SAT Reading
  • Assignment
  • A. Reading strategies (Critical reading
  • A. How to Read Critically
  • A. Using context clues to guess unknown words
  • TEST
  • 1. Identifying Explicit & Implicit Claims in the Text
  • 1. Explicit and Implicit Claims
  • 1. Explicit vs Implicit Communication
  • 1. Explicit vs Implicit Communication
  • 1. Explicit vs Implicit Grammar Instruction
  • ACTIVITY
  • 1. Implied Main Ideas
  • 1. implicit and explicit meaning
  • 1. EXPLICIT & IMPLICIT MEANING IN THE TEXT
  • 1. Types of Claims
  • 1. Explicit and Inferred Details
  • TEST
  • 2. Using context clues to figure out new words
  • 2. Interpreting text features | Reading
  • 2. Incorporating opposing viewpoints | Reading
  • 2. Looking back at the text for evidence | Reading
  • 2. Analyzing tone through word choice | Reading
  • 2. The elements of a drama | Reading
  • 2. What is a main idea? | Reading
  • FINAL TERM
  • Assignment
  • B. Reasoning beyond the text | MCAT |
  • B. Worked example: Seeing color through Homer's eyes
  • B. Critical analysis and reasoning skills practice questions
  • B. Reasoning within the text
  • B. Worked example: The happy American |
  • B. Worked example: Living in a rational society
  • TEST
  • 1. Formulation of Evaluative Statements
  • 1. Citing evidence in literary analysis | Reading
  • 1. Helpful to know | Lesson | Logical reasoning
  • 1. Analyzing an author's purpose | Reading
  • 2. Determining Textual Evidence
  • 2. What is an argument? | Reading |
  • 2. Making inferences in informational texts
  • 2. Character change | Reading
  • TEST
  • Text as Connected Discourse
  • Reading and Writing: Text as Connected Discourse
  • Text as Connected Discourse Reading and Writing
  • Intensifiers and adverbs of degree | The parts of speech | Grammar
  • B. Techniques in Selecting and Organizing Information
  • understands the relationship of a written text ...
  • Part-to-whole relationships in text structure | Reading
  • Different mediums and the tone of the text | Reading
  • Writing with Clarity - Introduction to College Writing Series
  • How to use rhetoric to get what you want
  • Academic Writing Structure
  • Characteristics of academic writing
  • EXAM
Completion rules
  • All units must be completed
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