OLC4O Ontario Secondary School Literacy Course – GRADE 11
PREREQUISITE : Eligibility requirement: Students who have been eligible to write the OSSLT at least twice and who have been unsuccessful at least once are eligible to take the course. (Students who have already met the literacy requirement for graduation may be eligible to take the course under special circumstances, at the discretion of the principal.)
GRADE : 12 (Open)
THE ONTARIO CURRICULUM : English
OLC4O online at Profectus is designed to help students acquire and demonstrate the cross-curricular literacy skills that are evaluated by the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test (OSSLT). Students who complete the course successfully will meet the provincial literacy requirement for graduation. In OLC4O online, students will read a variety of informational, narrative, and graphic texts and will produce a variety of forms of writing, including summaries, information paragraphs, opinion pieces, and news reports. Students will also maintain and manage a portfolio containing a record of their reading experiences and samples of their writing.
UNIT 1 :
Building Reading Skills (27.5hrs)
Students will be able to:
Demonstrate the ability to read and respond to a variety of texts.
Demonstrate understanding of the organizational structure and features of a variety of informational, narrative, and graphic texts, including information paragraphs, opinion pieces, textbooks, newspaper reports and magazine stories, and short fiction.
Demonstrate understanding of the content and meaning of informational, narrative, and graphic texts that they have read using a variety of reading strategies.
Use a variety of strategies to understand unfamiliar and specialized words and expressions in informational, narrative, and graphic texts.
UNIT 2 :
Building Writing Skills (27.5hrs)
Students will be able to:
Demonstrate the ability to use the writing process by generating and organizing ideas and producing first drafts, revised drafts, and final polished pieces to complete a variety of writing tasks.
Use knowledge of writing forms, and of the connections between form, audience, and purpose, to write summaries, information paragraphs, opinion pieces (i.e., series of paragraphs expressing an opinion), news reports, and personal reflections, incorporating graphic elements where necessary and appropriate.
UNIT 3 :
Understanding and Assessing Growth in Literacy (27.5hrs)
Students will be able to:
Demonstrate understanding of the importance of communication skills in their everyday lives – at school, at work, and at home.
Demonstrate understanding of their own roles and responsibilities in the learning process.
Demonstrate understanding of the reading and writing processes and of the role of reading and writing in learning; • demonstrate understanding of their own growth in literacy during the course.
FINAL 30%
Course Culmination (22hrs)
The Culminating Unit incorporates all four strands of the English Curriculum, and covers the four achievement chart categories. It consists of two parts:
Culminating Project worth 15% and a
Final Exam worth 15%
Online Course Policies
Listed below are various mandatory policies as you take on this course.
Attendance is regularly tracked through student contributions to online discussion boards, assignment completion, and learning logs. Failure to complete allocated activities may challenge the student’s ability to attain the credit.
This course will be presented using an asynchronistic model whereby work will be posted on the Google Classroom and it is the student’s responsibility to complete it on their own time.
ALL portions of this course are intended to be learned and completed online.
Final Exams and Tests will be written on site at Profectus Academy of Toronto. Course instructors will relay this information to students and families.
The integrity of student work will be checked on an ongoing basis using Quetext or Turnitin. Plagiarism is not tolerated.
Assessment & Evaluation Policies
The primary purpose of assessment and evaluation is to improve student learning. The Achievement Chart for English will guide all assessment and evaluation.
Knowledge and Understanding
17.5%
Thinking
17.5%
Communication
17.5%
Application
17.5%
The final grade will be determined as follows:
70% based on Assessment OF Learning (including conversations, observations and products) conducted throughout the course.
30% based on Culminating Tasks administered at or towards the end of the course.
Assessment and evaluation is divided into two important parts. The grade the student receives on a midterm or final report indicates achievement/ proficiency in Curriculum Expectations. A level of competence (Needs Improvement, Satisfactory, Good or Excellent) will be assessed and reported in the area of Learning Skills and Work Habits: Independent Work, Collaboration, Responsibility, Initiative, Self-Regulation, and Organization.
