Course Profile - Curriculum Services Canada

Resources
Elements of Style. Prentice-Hall.
Language to Go. Nelson.
Reading and Writing for Success. HBJ.
Language and Writing. Nelson.
The Harcourt Writer’s Handbook. HBJ.
Building English Skills, Orange level. Houghton-Mifflin.
Dictionaries and Thesauri
http://owl.english.purdue.edu
(Purdue website on writing skills)
Activity 2: The “Write” Stuff: The Writing Process
Time: Ongoing
Description
Students master the skills of the writing process throughout the entire course. After an initial introduction
to the steps involved in the writing process, students continue to employ the steps of prewriting, drafting,
conferencing, editing, revising, and publishing for all their major writing assignments.
Strand(s) and Expectations
Ontario Catholic School Graduate Expectations:
2c - actively reflect on God's Word as communicated through the Hebrew and Christian scriptures;
4b - demonstrate flexibility and adaptability;
4f - apply effective communication, decision-making, problem-solving, and time and resource
management skills;
7b - accept accountability for one's own actions.
Strand(s): Reading and Literature, Writing, Language, Media
Overall Expectations: All
Specific Expectations: All
Planning Notes
• All the expectations have been identified above because the writing process is used on all major
assignments for the course. The various writing activities cross into each of the other five units and, in
combination, draw upon all of the required skills/expectations identified.
• Students should be formally introduced to the writing process early in the course. The first identified
activity that makes reference to the writing process is Unit 1, Activity 2: The Character Study. If
teachers reorganize the activities or the course in any way, they should introduce the writing process
with their first writing activity.
Prior Knowledge Required
• The Writing Process as introduced in The Ontario Curriculum, Grades 1 –8, Language, pp.10 – 11
(This activity acts as a continuation of the work commenced in elementary school, building upon and
developing the skills acquired.)
Unit 6 - Page 5
•English - Academic