Havergal's Uncalendar, 2016-2017 Academic Year

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 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 ENG3U – English, Grade 11, University Preparation

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