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Summer Session 2011

Course Preview

Course / English 11– Online FastTrack
Teacher / Ms. Renee Mazzucco,
Location / Gleneagle Secondary, Room 112
Face to face, days and times / Tuesday and Thursday 9:30-11:30 AM
Online, days and times / Wednesday and Friday9:30-10:30
Online office hours / Wednesday and Friday 10:30-11:30
Course site / Sharepoint site:
Online class (Elluminate) /
Course Resources / Kesey, Ken. (1962) One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
Shakespeare, William. (1993) Twelfth Night.

Online FastTrack – This program is designed for students who have self-selected to complete their online course in a condensed timeline. Students are grouped together as a cohort and provided a prescribed timeline with scheduled face-to-face classes to help meet the students’ completion goals. However, if at any time, a student feels the need for a more flexibility he/she is able to convert to a flex-paced timeline. There are no scheduled classes or cohort groupings in flex-paced courses. In a flex-paced course, a student has a maximum of 10 months to complete a course which means, students are not eligible to be enrolled in this course at any other school while completing the course with Coquitlam Open Learning.

Welcome to English 11 online. As the primary learning environment for this course will be online, it will take commitment on the part of the student to meet the learning outcomes and complete the assignments required for successful completion of the course. In weekly seminars, tutorials and online, students will work towards meeting the following learning outcomes prescribed by the Ministry of Education:

  • It is expected that students will develop repertoires of skills and strategies to use as they anticipate, predict, and confirm meaning while reading, viewing, and listening.
  • It is expected that students will demonstrate their understanding of written, oral, and visual communications.
  • It is expected that students will identify connections between their own ideas, experiences, and knowledge and a variety of literary and mass media works created by classroom, local, British Columbian, Canadian, and international authors and developers from various cultural communities.
  • It is expected that students will draw reasoned conclusions from information found in various written, spoken, or visual communications and defend their conclusions rationally.
  • It is expected that students will apply their knowledge of the conventions of language and use appropriate vocabulary to talk about them.
  • It is expected that students will employ a variety of effective processes and strategies, including the use of electronic technology, to generate, gather, and organize information and ideas.
  • It is expected that students will enhance the precision, clarity, and artistry of their communications by using processes that professional authors and presenters use to appraise and improve their communications.
  • It is expected that students will demonstrate their understanding of and abilities to use a variety of forms and styles of communication that are relevant to specific purposes and audiences.
  • It is expected that students will use language to explore thoughts, ideas, feelings, and experiences to prepare for their roles in the world.

Assignments & Assessment:

The course will be broken down into the following units of study:

  1. Short Stories
  2. Non-fiction
  3. Poetry
  4. Drama
  5. Novel

Each week you will be provided with a list of assignments and submission dates. Assignments need to be submitted before or on the due date provided, by email (wherever possible). Please make sure to include your name and date of submission on the assignment and clearly title the assignment in the attachment so it is easy to identify.

Assessment will be calculated as follows:

  1. Assignments (based on weekly readings)20%
  2. Major in-class writes (completed during weekly seminar)30%
  3. Unit quizzes & tests (completed during weekly seminar)30%
  4. Final exam20%

Academic Dishonesty/Plagiarism:

Any students that plagiarize any portion of an assignment will receive a zero on the assignment; a letter will be sent home and a copy will be kept on file in our school records. The problem will also be referred to administration. For your own protection, keep all drafts of all work until the end of the course.

**I firmly believe that each and every student should have the opportunity to do well. If you have any concerns or comments please contact me immediately.