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English Course Tips and Models/Frameworks

• Course Tip #1 – How to Achieve Your Goals in English Class
• Course Tip #2 – Daily Dozen – Fake-It-Until-You-Make-It
• Course Tip #3 – Read-to-Remember Strategies
• Overview of English Course Models and Frameworks

English 9 Readings

Course Handouts

Rubrics:

• English 9 Expository Essay Rubric
• English 9 Rhetorical or Textual Analysis Essay Rubric
• English 9 Published Short Story Rubric

Study Guides:

• English 9 Unit 1 Test Study Guide
• English 9 Mid-Term Exam Study Guide
• English 9 Unit 3 Test Study Guide
• English 9 Final Exam Study Guide

Course Readings – Unit I (Fundamentals) and Unit II (Stories)

Stories:

• Atwood, Margaret. “The Sin Eater.” The Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories : In English. Don Mills, Oxford University Press, 1988, pp. 315-324.
• Chan, Gillian. “Golden Girl.”
• Gansworth, Eric. “Don’t Pass Me By.” Fresh Ink : An Anthology. Edited by Lamar Giles, New York, Crown, 2018, pp. 38-54.
• Gordimer, Nadine. “Once Upon a Time.”
• Gordon, Arthur. “The Sea Devil.”
• King, Thomas. “Borders.” One Good Story, That One : Stories. Minneapolis, University Of Minnesota Press, 2013, pp. 131–145.
• Levithan, David. “Your Temporary Santa.” My True Love Gave to Me : Twelve Holiday Stories. Edited by Stephanie Perkins, New York, St. Martin’s Griffin, 2014, pp. 133-147.
• Munro, Alice. “Runaway.” My Best Stories. Toronto, Penguin, 206, pp. 429-465.
• Poe, Edgar Allan. “The Tell-Tale Heart.”
• Rowell, Rainbow. “Midnights.” My True Love Gave to Me : Twelve Holiday Stories. Edited by Stephanie Perkins, New York, St. Martin’s Griffin, 2014, pp. 1-22.
• Stork, Fransico X. “Captain, My Captain.” Unbroken : 13 Stories Staring Disabled Teens. Edited by Marieke Nijkamp, New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 2018, pp. 156-176.
• Van Camp, Richard. “I Am Filled with a Trembling Light.” Moccasin Square Gardens. Madeira Park, Douglas and McIntyre, 2019, pp. 107-127.

Poems:

• Atwood, Margaret. “Siren Song.” https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/32778/siren-song.
• Atwood, Margaret. “Hesitations Outside the Door.” https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=31725.
• Atwood, Margaret. “Projected Slide of an Unknown Soldier.” https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=31725.
• Atwood, Margaret. “In The Secular Night.” https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47786/in-the-secular-night.
• Atwood, Margaret. “Crow Song.” https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=32775.
• Auden, W. H. “If I Could Tell You.” W. H. Auden : Collected Poems. Edited by Edward Mendelson, New York, Vintage International, 1996, p. 314.
• Auden, W. H. “Stop all the clocks.” W. H. Auden : Collected Poems. Edited by Edward Mendelson, New York, Vintage International, 1996, p. 141.
• Auden, W. H. “The More Loving One.” W. H. Auden : Collected Poems. Edited by Edward Mendelson, New York, Vintage International, 1996, pp. 584-585.
• Carver, Raymond. “Hominy and Rain.” All of Us : The Collected Poems. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1996, pp. 58-59.
• Carver, Raymond. “In the Year 2020.” All of Us : The Collected Poems. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1996, pp. 84-85.
• Carver, Raymond. “Rain.” All of Us : The Collected Poems. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1996, p. 78.
• Carver, Raymond. “The Party.” All of Us : The Collected Poems. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1996, p. 103-104.
• Mercredi, Duncan. “my red face hurts” Native Poetry in Canada : A Contemporary Anthology. Edited by Jeannette C. Armstrong and Lally Grauer, Peterborough, Broadview Press, 2001, pp. 200-201.
• Mercredi, Duncan. “Morning Awakening” Native Poetry in Canada : A Contemporary Anthology. Edited by Jeannette C. Armstrong and Lally Grauer, Peterborough, Broadview Press, 2001, pp. 201-202.
• Mercredi, Duncan. “He Likes to Dance” Native Poetry in Canada : A Contemporary Anthology. Edited by Jeannette C. Armstrong and Lally Grauer, Peterborough, Broadview Press, 2001, pp. 204-205.
• Mercredi, Duncan. “the duke of Windsor” Native Poetry in Canada : A Contemporary Anthology. Edited by Jeannette C. Armstrong and Lally Grauer, Peterborough, Broadview Press, 2001, p. 210.
• Oliver, Mary. “A Note Left on the Door.” Thirst : Poems by Mary Oliver. Boston, Beacon Press, 2006, p. 20.
• Oliver, Mary. “Doesn’t Every Poet Write a Poem about Unrequited Love?” Thirst : Poems by Mary Oliver. Boston, Beacon Press, 2006, pp. 40-41.
• Oliver, Mary. “Heavy.” Thirst : Poems by Mary Oliver. Boston, Beacon Press, 2006, pp. 53-54.
• Oliver, Mary. “On Thy Wondrous Works I Will Meditate.” Thirst : Poems by Mary Oliver. Boston, Beacon Press, 2006, pp. 55-59.
• Oliver, Mary. “The Place I Want to Get Back To.” Thirst : Poems by Mary Oliver. Boston, Beacon Press, 2006, pp. 35-36.
• Service, Robert W. “The Ballad of Blasphemous Bill.” Poetry Foundation, www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46647/the-ballad-of-blasphemous-bill. 
• Service, Robert W. “The Song of the Wage Slavel.” Poetry Foundation, https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45083/the-song-of-the-wage-slave. 
• Service, Robert W. “Just Think!” Poetry Foundation, https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46649/just-think-56d2269875bbc. 
• Service, Robert W. “The Shooting of Dan McGrew” Poetry Foundation, https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45082/the-shooting-of-dan-mcgrew. 

Essays/Chapters/Articles:

• Behrens, Laurence, and Leonard J. Rosen, Jaqueline McLeod Rogers, and Catherine Taylor. “Homeless in the Just Society.” Writing & Reading : Across the Disciplines. Toronto, Pearson Longman, 2007, 151-203.
• Florence Davidson, Sara, and Robert Davidson. “The Story of sk’ad’a.” Potlatch as Pedagogy : Learning Through Ceremony. Winnipeg, Portage and Main Press, 2018, pp. 11-22.
• Friedersdorf, Conor. “When Being Gay Is Not a Big Deal.” The Atlantic, 26 Sept. 2019, www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/09/richie-jackson-gay-like-me/598720/. Accessed 15 June 2023.
• Gierz, Krissie. “Before I Met the Monster.” Bookmarked : Teen Essays on Life and Literature from Tolkien to Twilight. Edited by Ann Camacho, Minneapolis, Free Spirit Publishing, 2012, pp. 120-124..
• Golding, William. “Thinking as a Hobby.” 75 Readings : An Anthology. New York, McGraw Hill, 1997, pp. 163-171.
• Goodwin Parker, Jo. “What Is Poverty?” 75 Readings : An Anthology. New York, McGraw Hill, 1997, pp. 137-141.
• Gould, Stephan Jay. “Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the Extinction of Dinosaurs.” 75 Readings : An Anthology. New York, McGraw Hill, 1997, pp. 409-418.
• Hice, Gregory. “All We Have to Decide.” Bookmarked : Teen Essays on Life and Literature from Tolkien to Twilight. Edited by Ann Camacho, Minneapolis, Free Spirit Publishing, 2012, pp. 38-41.
• Ignatius, Derek. “I Am a Red Balloon.” Bookmarked : Teen Essays on Life and Literature from Tolkien to Twilight. Edited by Ann Camacho, Minneapolis, Free Spirit Publishing, 2012, pp. 187-190.
• Lessing, Doris. “Group Minds.” Writing & Reading : Across the Disciplines. Edited by Laurence Behrens, Leonard J. Rosen, Jaqueline McLeod Rogers, and Catherine Taylor, Toronto, Pearson Longman, 2007, pp. 210-213.
• Liben, Kevin. “The Last Retailer in Canada?” Writing & Reading : Across the Disciplines. Edited by Laurence Behrens, Leonard J. Rosen, Jaqueline McLeod Rogers, and Catherine Taylor, Toronto, Pearson Longman, 2007, pp. 119-121.
• Pamula, Awhile. “Gone Away.” Bookmarked : Teen Essays on Life and Literature from Tolkien to Twilight. Edited by Ann Camacho, Minneapolis, Free Spirit Publishing, 2012, pp. 73-77.
• McDonald, Archeé. “Nothing Beats a Failure.” Bookmarked : Teen Essays on Life and Literature from Tolkien to Twilight. Edited by Ann Camacho, Minneapolis, Free Spirit Publishing, 2012, pp. 111-115.
• Trumble, Jessica. “By Any Other Name.” Bookmarked : Teen Essays on Life and Literature from Tolkien to Twilight. Edited by Ann Camacho, Minneapolis, Free Spirit Publishing, 2012, pp. 51-54.
• Viorst, Judith. “The Truth About Lying.” 75 Readings : An Anthology. New York, McGraw Hill, 1997, pp. 203-209.

Books:

• Beynon, William. Luutigm Hoon : Honouring the Salmon : Teacher’s Resource Guide. Prince Rupert, B.C., Tsimshian Nation, School District 52 (Prince Rupert), 2002.
• First Nations Education Council, and Kenneth Campbell. Persistence and Change. Prince Rupert, Tsimshian Nation and School District 52 (Prince Rupert), 2005.

Course Readings – Unit III (Debate and Argumentation)

Primary Texts:

• Mill, John Stuart. On Liberty.

Topic #1 – Freedom of Expression:

• Carver, Emily. “Cancel Culture Is Not a Myth.” 1828 – Championing Freedom, 16 July 2020, www.1828.org.uk/2020/07/16/cancel-culture-is-not-a-myth/. Accessed 20 June 2023.
• Hannan, Patty, and Arif Ahmed. “A Climate of Fear Prevents People from Speaking Out.” www.spiked-Online.com, www.spiked-online.com/2020/12/18/a-climate-of-fear-prevents-people-from-speaking-out/. Accessed 20 June 2023.

Topic #2 – Artificial Intelligence:

• Other sources (link)

Topic #3 – Universal Basic Income:

• Add soon

Topic #4 – Privacy:

• Add soon

Background Resources:

• Coates, Kenneth. The Indian Act and the Future of Aboriginal Governance in Canada : Research Paper for the National Centre for First Nations Governance. West Vancouver, National Centre for First Nations Governance, 2008.
• Government of Canada, Department Of Justice. Canada’s System of Justice. Ottawa, Dept. Of Justice Canada, 1993.
• Government of Canada, Public Services and Procurement Canada. Our Country, Our Parliament : An Introduction to How Canada’s Parliament Works. Ottawa, Publications.gc.ca, 2002.
• Parliamentary Procedures (videos)

Course Readings – Unit IV (“Renaissance”)

• Shakespeare, William. Measure for Measure. Edited by Barbara A. Mowat and Werstine, New York, Simon and Schuster, 1997.
• Thrasher, Thomas. “First the Globe, Then the World.” The Importance of William Shakespeare. San Diego, Lucent Books, 1999, pp. 48-63.
• Shapiro, James. “A Great Blow in Ireland.” A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare : 1599. New York, Harper Perennial, 2005, pp. 43-57.
• Hurston, Zora Neale. “Sweat.” The Oxford Book of American Short Stories. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1992, pp. 999-1011.
• Hurston, Zora Neale. “The Gilded Six-Bits.” The Oxford Book of American Short Stories. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1992, pp. 1011-1019.
• Larsen, Nella. Passing. New York, Alfred A Knopf, 1929.
• Hughes, Langston. “Thank You M’am.” CommonLit, www.commonlit.org/en/texts/thank-you-m-am.
• Du Bois, W. E. B. “Strivings of the Negro People.” The Atlantic, The Atlantic, Aug. 1897, www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1897/08/strivings-of-the-negro-people/305446/.

Course Films – Unit IV (“Renaissance”)

• All Is True
• Measure for Measure
• Malcom X
• Dreamgirls

English First Peoples 11 Readings

Course Handouts

Rubrics:

• English 11 Expository Essay Rubric
• English 11 Textual Analysis Essay Rubric
• English 11 Persuasive or Argumentative Essay Rubric
• English 11 Poem or Poetry Collection Rubric

Study Guides:

• English First Peoples 11 Unit 1 Test Study Guide
• English First Peoples 11 Mid-Term Exam Study Guide
• English First Peoples 11 Unit 3 Test Study Guide
• English First Peoples 11 Final Exam Study Guide

Course Readings – Unit I “Place”

Stories:

• Alexie, Sherman. “One Good Man.” The Toughest Indian in the World. New York Grove Press, 2000.
• Dunning, Norma. “Ama.” Tainna : The Unseen Ones : Stories. Madeira Park, Douglas and McIntyre, 2021, pp. 1-24.
• Hicks, Chelsea T. “Superdrunk.” A Calm & Normal Heart : Stories. Los Angeles, The Unnamed Press, 2022, pp. 55-66.
• Highway, Tomson. “Hearts and Flowers.” Our Story : Aboriginal Voices on Canada’s Past, Dominion Institute, Toronto, Anchor Canada, 2005, pp. 177-199.
• Conrad, Emma (told by, to Thom Hess, at Burlington, Washington, on March 28, 1963). “Legend of the Seasons (All Year Round Story).” Haboo : Native American Stories from Puget Sound. Translated and edited by Vi taqʷšəblu Hilbert, Seattle, University of Washington Press, 2020, pp. 22-30.
• Simpson, Jaye. “The Ark of the Turtle’s Back.” Love after the End : An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction. Edited by Joshua Whitehead, Vancouver, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2020, pp. 61-76.
• Mehlmann, Gloria. “Adam’s Tree.” Adams’s Tree : Stories. Regina, Radiant Press, 2019, pp. 118-137.
• King, Thomas. “The One About Coyote Going West.”
• King, Thomas. “The Baby in the Airmail Box.” A Short History of Indians in Canada : Stories. Toronto, Harper Perennial, 2005, pp. 34-49.

Poems:

• Atwood, Margaret. “Backdrop addresses cowboy.” https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47792/backdrop-addresses-cowboy
• Hughes, Langston. “The Negro Speaks of Rivers.” Poetry Foundation, 2019, www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44428/the-negro-speaks-of-rivers.
• Maracle, Lee. “Bring the Boys Home.” Bent Box. Penticton, B.C. Theytus Books, 2000.
• Mercredi, Duncan. “searching for visions” Native Poetry in Canada : A Contemporary Anthology. Edited by Jeannette C. Armstrong and Lally Grauer, Peterborough, Broadview Press, 2001, p. 207.
• Allbrett, Mahara. “the mountains are real.” Native Poetry in Canada : A Contemporary Anthology. Edited by Jeannette C. Armstrong and Lally Grauer, Peterborough, Broadview Press, 2001, pp. 176-77.
• Joe, Rita. “Wen net ki’l.” Native Poetry in Canada : A Contemporary Anthology. Edited by Jeannette C. Armstrong and Lally Grauer, Peterborough, Broadview Press, 2001, p. 15.
• Reed, Ishmael. “beware: do not read this poem.” The Poetry of Black America : Anthology of the 20th Century. Edited by Arnold Adoff, New York, HarperCollins Publishers, 1973, pp. 328-329.

Essays/Chapters/Articles:

• Brown, Dennis. “The Battle of Prince Rupert.” Salmon Wars : The Battle for the West Coast Salmon Fishery, Madeira Park, BC, Harbour Publishing, pp. 176–195.
• Bruner, Jerome. “The Narrative Construction of Reality.” Critical Inquiry, vol. 18, no. 1, 1991, pp. 1–21.
• King, Thomas. the truth about stories A Native Narrative. Dead Dog Café Productions Inc. and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 2003.
• Maracle, Lee. Untitled. My Conversations with Canadians, Toronto, BookThug, 2017, pp. 139–160.
• Mills, Antonia. “Witsuwit’en Law.” Eagle down Is Our Law : Witsuwit’en Law, Feasts, and Land Claims, Gitksan-Witsuwit’en Tribal Government, Vancouver, UBC Press, 1994, pp. 141–164.
• Wightman, Andy. “To Spoil the Kirk of Christ of Her Patrimony.” The Poor Had No Lawyers : Who Owns Scotland (and How They Got It), Edinburgh , Birlin Limited, 2013, pp. 23–30.
• So You Girls Remember That: Memories of a Haida Elder Gaadgas Nora Bellis Jenny Nelson
• From Oral to Written: A Celebration of Indigenous Literature in Canada, 1980-201 Tomson Highway
• Gatherings Journal XV: Youth Water Anthology Gregory Younging 

Books:

• Mann, Charles C. 1493 : From Columbus’s Voyage to Globalization : For Young People. New York, Seven Stories Press, 2014.
• Beynon, William. Luutigm Hoon : Honouring the Salmon : Teacher’s Resource Guide. Prince Rupert, B.C., Tsimshian Nation, School District 52 (Prince Rupert), 2002.
• First Nations Education Council, and Kenneth Campbell. Persistence and Change. Prince Rupert, Tsimshian Nation and School District 52 (Prince Rupert), 2005.
• A Story as Sharp as a Knife Robert Bringhurst

Course Readings – Unit II “Language”

Learning:

• Robinson, Eden. The Sasquatch at Home. University of Alberta, 2012.
• Florence Davidson, Sara, and Robert Davidson. “Celebrating One More Time in a Way They Know How.” Potlatch as Pedagogy : Learning Through Ceremony. Winnipeg, Portage and Main Press, 2018, pp. 35-45.

Talking:

• Reservation Dogs
• The Rez Sisters
  • Tomson Highway: kipimâtisinaw tapâhpeyahk (link)
• Qallunaat! Why White People Are Funny 

Describing:

• Keeper n’ Me
• Baker, Marie Annharte. “Pretty Tough Skin Wsoman.” Native Poetry in Canada : A Contemporary Anthology. Edited by Jeannette C. Armstrong and Lally Grauer, Peterborough, Broadview Press, 2001, p. 67.
• Mercredi, Duncan. “born again indian” Native Poetry in Canada : A Contemporary Anthology. Edited by Jeannette C. Armstrong and Lally Grauer, Peterborough, Broadview Press, 2001, pp. 206-207.

Listening:

• Whitehead, Ruth Holmes. Six Mikmaq Stories

Course Readings – Unit III “Interest”

Speeches:

• Douglass, Frederick. “What To the Slave Is the Fourth of July?”
• King, Martin Luther. “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop.”
• Pankhurst, Emmeline. “Freedom or Death.”
• Truth, Sojourner. “Ain’t I a Woman?”
• Russell Means
• Louis Riel
• George Erasmus

Stories and Poems:

• Maracle, Lee. “Mister Mandela.” Native Poetry in Canada : A Contemporary Anthology. Edited by Jeannette C. Armstrong and Lally Grauer, Peterborough, Broadview Press, 2001, p. 186.
• Mercredi, Duncan. “Blues Singer.” Native Poetry in Canada : A Contemporary Anthology. Edited by Jeannette C. Armstrong and Lally Grauer, Peterborough, Broadview Press, 2001, p. 202.

Films:

• National Film Board of Canada. “Encounter with Saul Alinsky – Part 2: Rama Indian Reserve.” www.nfb.ca, www.nfb.ca/film/encounter_with_saul_alinsky/. Accessed 19 June 2023. (NFB)
• National Film Board of Canada. “First Stories – Two Spirited.” www.nfb.ca, www.nfb.ca/film/first_stories_two_spirited/. Accessed 19 June 2023. (NFB)
• National Film Board of Canada. “Hands of History.” www.nfb.ca, www.nfb.ca/film/hands_of_history/. Accessed 19 June 2023.(NFB)
• National Film Board of Canada. “Indian Dialogue.” www.nfb.ca, www.nfb.ca/film/indian-dialogue/. Accessed 19 June 2023. (NFB)
• National Film Board of Canada. “No Turning Back.” www.nfb.ca, www.nfb.ca/film/no_turning_back/. Accessed 19 June 2023. (NFB)

Course Readings – Unit IV “Being”

• Daughters of the Dust. Directed by Julie Dash, 1991.
• SGaawaay K’uuna. Directed by Gwaai Edenshaw and Haig-Brown Helen , 2018.
• Smoke Signals. Directed by Chris Eyre, 1998. (Internet Archives)

Course Readings – Major Work

• Adler, Mortimer Jerome, and Charles Van Doren. How to Read a Book. M J F Books, 1972.