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| Step 2: Read the Course Outline and make sure you understand the course requirements. Ask your teacher if you have any questions. |
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Step 3: Make a schedule and get started on the course ASAP! Remember, that regular progress is the key. |
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"Our stories don't have to be elaborate or highly dramatic to be powerful-they just have to be about us.
When we share them with others, we let ourselves be known and understood.
We build strong relationships in which respect is front and centre." Richard Wagamese, "Runaway Dreams" 2011
Unit 1 Learning Guide (Print in either .pdf or .docx and complete as you work through this unit)
Unit 1 Writer's Workshop Notebook (Print in either .pdf or .docx and complete as you work through this unit).
"For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written — heard, not read. So fairy tales, folk tales, stories from the oral tradition, are all of them the most vital connection we have with the imaginations of the ordinary men and women whose labor created our world."
Angela Carter
Unit 2 Learning Guide (Print in either .pdf or .docx and complete as you work through this unit)
Unit 2 Writer's Workshop Notebook (Print in either .pdf or .docx and complete as you work through this unit).
The midterm is a reflective self-assessment on the student's growth as a learner.
“A curator is an expert learner. Instead of dispensing knowledge, he creates spaces in which knowledge can be created, explored, and connected.” (Siemens, 2007).
Unit 3 Learning Guide (Print in either .pdf or .docx and complete as you work through this unit)
"Nature contains the memory of the world, it's nature and history interwoven to let the shapes of its worlds and its landscapes speak and tell a continuous story." Francois Besson
Unit 4 Learning Guide (Print in either .pdf or .docx and complete as you work through this unit)
Unit 4 Writer's Workshop Notebook (Print in either .pdf or .docx and complete as you work through this unit).
Forming meaningful connections is the cornerstone of society.
How do people develop essential relationships with the people and world around them?
What effect do these connections have on the kind of person one will become?
Independent Novel Study Learning Guide (Print in either .pdf or .docx and complete as you work through this unit).