Unit 1: Non-Fiction Texts

Overview

Welcome to ENG2D and the start of your journey (real and figurative) to becoming a more effective communicator! Throughout this unit, you will learn about the stories that are told using non-fiction texts. Specifically, you'll learn about how to succeed in an online environment, how to avoid the accusation of plagiarism, what is involved in writing a news report, how to read and write anecdotes and memoirs, how to tell a story using photographs, what the difference is between biographies and autobiographies, and, of course, you will reflect on your amazing skills development throughout!

Unit 2: Fiction Texts

Overview

Welcome to Unit 2: Fiction Texts! In the previous unit, you learned how different non-fiction texts can tell stories. Throughout this unit, you will experience and explore many different types of fictional stories, but at the same time you'll be on your own journey to discover the answer to this key question: how do the texts with which we engage impact and influence us and our place in the world? As you continue your ENG2D journey, you'll learn about various ways that different texts can tell fictional stories. In your previous English classes, you've probably read several short stories; while you'll do that in this unit as well, you'll also read, listen, view and create songs, poems, narratives and films.

Unit 3: Performance Texts

Overview

Welcome to Unit 3: Performance texts! In the previous unit, you learned how different fictional short texts can tell stories. Throughout this unit, you will experience and explore many different types of fictional and non-fictional performance texts, while at the same time journeying on your own to discover the answer to this key question: how do the texts with which we engage impact and influence us and our place in the world? As you continue your ENG2D journey, you'll be learning about various ways that different texts can intellectually and emotionally motivate and move audiences. This will be seen through a variety of texts, including rants, speeches, videos, treatments, storyboards, trailers and pitches. At this unit's end, you'll develop a pitch presentation to get your movie idea produced!

Unit 4: Novel Texts

Overview

Welcome to Unit 4: Novel Texts! In the previous unit, you learned how different performance texts can tell stories, and how those stories can change based on how they are presented. Throughout this unit, you will read a novel in order to write a literary essay, but at the same time you'll be on your own journey to discover the answer to this key question: how do the texts with which we engage impact and influence us and our place in the world? As you continue your ENG2D journey, you'll learn about various ways that a novel can intellectually and emotionally motivate and move readers.

Unit 5: Culminating Task

Overview

Congratulations on making it to the final leg of your ENG2D journey! Throughout this course, you've experienced and explored many diverse texts and enhanced your reading, writing, communication and media skills. In this final culminating task unit, you'll showcase what you've learned by selecting your preferred medium for communicating your newfound understanding. You will also reflect on how you've developed as an English student, and consider - once more - the core course question: how do the texts with which we engage impact and influence us and our place in the world?