Grades 7-10

1. JI Language: Grades 7-10
Class 11
2017 - 2018

2. Language Arts: Grades 1-8
English: Grades 9-10
1. What types of courses are offered in English
grades 9-10?
2. How is the curriculum set up with respect to
Expectations?
3. How is it set up with respect to Strands?
4. How is Assessment and Evaluation the
same/different from 1-8?
5. What does English: 9-10 say about Inquiry?

3. Comparing Grades 8 and 9
1. Compare the oral language strands
2. Compare the reading strands
3. Compare the writing strands
4. Compare the media studies strands
5. Compare grade 9 Academic and grade 9
Applied

4. My interview with Dr. Lorenzo
Cherubini
• How does teaching grade 9 &10 in a high
school differ from teaching grades 7 & 8 in an
elementary school?

5. Key Points
• Different paradigm: Department vs School
• Cross-curricular connections: Big Ideas
• Student supports
– Students with IEPs
– ELL students
• Approach to literary analysis/ literary theory
• Advice & offer of support

6. Search Resources
• Think Literacy: 3 copies per tables
• Sakai: Class 11
– Resources: grades 7-12

7. Balanced/Comprehensive Literacy
• For interview preparation:
– See PPT link in today’s Sakai site
– If interviewer asks you about Balanced Literacy,
here’s your answer!!

8. Being Alive
Being alive is _____ing ___________
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That’s being alive.
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That’s being alive.

9. Being Alive
Being alive is opening a Christmas gift and
discovering tickets to Europe
Turning a corner in Paris and spotting the Eiffel
Tower
Finding the perfect art book for my son in a tiny
Parisian store
That’s being alive

10. Being a Teacher
Being a teacher is _____ing ___________
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That’s being a teacher.
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That’s being a teacher.

11. Please email your poem
• rmcquirter@brocku.ca

12. Unit Plans
• Email your unit plan to
– rmcquirter@brocku.ca

13. Group Presentation
• 5-7 minutes
• What is your inquiry topic?
• Why did you choose it?
• What did the research tell you?
• As a result, what Learning Objects did you decide
to create?
20 minutes (about 5 minutes per person)
• Show us the Learning Objects

14. Group Presentations
• Prepare your presentation for next week
• Upload the following to the Sakai Forum
specified for your group:
– Monograph
– Each person’s Learning Object
– Each person’s Teacher’s Guide