Communications
11, version 01 (4 credits)
It is recommended that students complete:
• English 10
Communications 11, with Communications 12 to follow, provides
an alternative course in English that meets the needs of students who
may find it difficult to succeed in English 11 and 12. It provides practical
communication skills for students who probably will not attend academic
post-secondary institutions.
This course combines language and literature in one course.
Module 1:
Section 1: Short story: “A Firm Word or Two”; The sentence; Poetry: “Cargoes”; Direct and indirect objects; Pronouns as objects
Section 2: Story: “The Chance of a Lifetime”; Punctuation; End punctuation; Commas; Poetry: “Richard Cory”
Section 3: Short Story: “Sucker”; Joining simple sentences (conjunctions); Tenses of verbs; Homonyms; Capitalization; Poetry: “Warren Pryor”
Section 4: Short Story: “A Start in Life”; Quotation marks; Apostrophe of possession; Poetry: “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening”; Apostrophe for missing letters; Compound subject agreement
Section 5: Short story: “The Richer, The Poorer”; Special types of agreement; Pronoun subjects; Poetry: “Ozymandias”; Pronouns as objects; Indefinite pronouns
Section 6: Short story: “Beauty Is Truth”; Using the dictionary; Making pronouns and possessive adjectives agree with antecedents; Poetry: “The Road Not Taken”
Module 1 Test covers the work of Module 1.
Module 2:
Section 7: Short story: “The Taste of Melon”; Using the interrogatives “who” and “whom”; Conjunction; Poetry: “The Solitary Reaper”; Subordinating conjunctions; Interrogative and relative pronouns
Section 8: Short story: “The Story of the Widow’s Son”; Problem verbs (Lie and Lay); Poetry: “The Shark”; Spelling-the basic rules; Problems with pronouns
Section 9: Short story: “Li Chang’s Million”; Spelling Rules; Poetry: “The Legend of Qu’Appelle Valley”; Word parts; Prefixes; Using context to find word meanings
Section 10: Short story: “Papa and the Bomb”; Suffixes; Building words; Poetry: “The Death of Samson”; Synonyms; Increasing your vocabulary by learning synonyms
Section 11: Short story: “The Fun They Had”; Adjectives and adverbs; Poetry: “Snake”; Vocabulary; Adjectives and adverbs; Using “good” and “well”
Section 12: Short story: “A Kind of Murder”; Vocabulary and prefixes; Mistakes in the use of conjunctions; Poetry: “David”; Colons; Latin and Greek roots; Review
Module 2 Test covers the work of Module 2.
Module 3:
Section 13: Novel: “Who Has Seen the Wind?”; Paragraph-unity and development; Sentences in logical order; Replying to help-wanted ads; Poetry: “The Solitary Woodsman”; The Communications Handbook as reference; Application forms
Section 14: Novel: “Who has Seen the Wind?” (cont’d); Application Forms; Using the Library; Poetry: “A January Morning”; Writing notices; Telephone messages; The rŽsumŽ
Section 15: Novel: “Who Has Seen the Wind?” (cont’d); Using good English; Poetry: “The Lady of Shalott”; Proofreading skills; The friendly letter
Section 16: Novel: “Who Has Seen the Wind?” (cont’d); Business letter; Reading methods; Poetry: “Sea-Gulls”; Study skills; Telegrams
Section 17: Novel: “Who Has Seen the Wind?” (cont’d); Expository essay; PrŽcis writing; Poetry: “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”; Ordering goods by mail; Listening and speaking
Section 18: Poetry: “Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard” and “Gray’s Elegy”; Review of the courseModule 3 Test covers the WHOLE COURSE.
The textbooks for this course are:
The Communications Handbook
Insight and Outlook
Theme and Image, Book I (Gillanders)
Who Has Seen the Wind?
A dictionary, preferably The Canadian Senior Dictionary (Gage) is recommended.