Gateway English

In Film Studies, the student will learn how to appreciate movies in depth and on a variety of levels. To accomplish this, students will develop criteria for aesthetic awareness. They will increase their vocabulary and their understanding of the language of films. These goals will be accomplished by studying: film terminology, art direction, sound and music, animation, genres, and directors.

Course Syllabus

This unit covers the MN Academic Standards in English/Language Arts for Informational Texts [RI]: Range of Reading and Level of Complexity 11.5.10.10

Time: ~3 weeks

This course is open to guest access with the Language Arts enrollment key.

Tags: Novel, biography, auto-biography, non-fiction, Literary Criticism

This is where I am keeping Moodle Curriculum that is not in use but may be used later.

Ms. Guild's 1st quarter of English 11 for 2018-19 school year.

A continuation of a course meant to address MN State Language Arts standards for grades 11-12.

This workshop course is designed to help students practice an effective writing process, including brainstorming, outlining, drafting, revision, and proofreading. Students will work on developing a variety of writing, which will include effective and organized paragraphs, essays, newspaper articles, and a research paper. Correct usage, spelling, punctuation, and other mechanics will also be reviewed. Feedback between the teacher and the student is ongoing. This course differs from Advanced Writers’ Workshop in that it has a stronger focus on basic skills and how to overcome writer’s block.

How will we interact with the world around us which is changing faster than many people can keep up? How can we be heard and have a say about the people and issues that matter the most to us? This course will focus on blogging - the design, the language, the etiquette, and the impact. Through the process of creating and maintaining their own blog, students will experience first hand how  distance, time and space, are no longer barriers to communicating with others around the globe. 

A dystopia is a fictional society that is the antithesis or complete opposite of a utopia (an ideal world with a perfect social, political and technological infrastructure; a world without chaos, strife or hunger).   

Dystopian films often construct a fictional universe and set it in a background which features scenarios such as dehumanizing technological advancements, man-made disease or disasters or class-based revolutions. The motivation for such films is often to warn members of a current society of the consequences the future could hold should they continue on their current path.

In this course, students will study aspects of dystopian fiction juxtaposed with elements of film making,  and assess and evaluate the work in terms of effective use of film and story elements to convey the intended message.

Source: http://snarkerati.com/movie-news/the-top-50-dystopian-movies-of-all-time/ 

A summer PBL course designed to have students research a natural resource and its origins, impacts, and implications. Students will use their knowledge of the resource to write a piece of speculative fiction about a world in which the resource is running or already has run out.

An English elective course meant to address MN state Language Arts standards in the areas of reading techniques and comprehension and writing strategies.