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HAVERGAL COLLEGE
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Uncalendar 2016–2017
GRADE 11
EMS3O
– Media Studies, Grade 11, Open
1 CREDIT
“It’s not your grandmother’s television!” Are you addicted to Facebook? Tumblr? Blogging? BBM? Do
you spend hours surfing YouTube or chatting online with your friends? Do you express yourself in
140-character tweets? Is reality television your (not-so) secret guilty pleasure? Do you feel lost without
your smartphone or your iPad? If so, this course is for you. Learn how to take control of the media
you consume and how media, new and traditional, have the power to influence and shape you. Then,
learn to create your own media to influence and shape the world around you. Make a video, design an
advertising campaign, create your own multi-media extravaganza on the Internet—you are limited only
by your own imagination! If you are interested in a career in business, journalism, communications or
media, this course will be of use to you.
In this course, you will garner the skills to help navigate your media-rich world as critical and informed
participants. What better way to become a savvy participant in the world of mass media than by
studying the masters and then creating your own media works? You will learn how to manage your own
digital footprint and create and maintain an individual blog. In addition, you will create a variety of other
media works, including print, film and video, Internet-based and audio content. This course emphasizes
knowledge and skills that will enable you to understand media communication in the 21st century
and to use media effectively and responsibly. Through analyzing the forms and messages of a variety
of media works and audience responses to them, and through creating your own media works, you
will develop critical thinking skills, aesthetic and ethical judgment, and skills in viewing, representing,
listening, speaking, reading and writing.
Prerequisite: ENG2D – English, Grade 10, Academic or ENG2P – English, Grade 10, Applied
ENG3U
– English, Grade 11, University Preparation
1 CREDIT
Do you ever wonder who people are—really are—underneath the mask? Do you ever read the news and
think, “There has to be another story there, somewhere”—a much more interesting story, perhaps?
Do you have a secret desire to sway public opinion, to convince people of the unbelievable, through the
sheer audacity and genius of your words?
In Grade 11 English, we will explore the ways we can read to understand the story beneath the story
and the ways we can write to influence opinion and to make our readers see the world as we do.
We will read political essays, great novels such as
Of Mice and Men
and
The Great Gatsby
, and a range
of Romantic and Victorian poetry. We will finish our year by looking at the mystery one of the great
historic mysteries of the western world—Who killed the Princes in the Tower? Their uncle, Richard
III; Henry Tudor, the man who overthrew him; Buckingham, the great machinator; or someone as yet
unknown? We’ll read a range of sources—Shakespeare’s famous play, snippets from contemporary
sources, a murder mystery—and decide who dunnit!
Prerequisite: ENG2D – English, Grade 10, Academic