English Grade 10

You will be asked to begin reading about some the various important aspects of this unit.  You will be given an opportunity to reflect on the material and respond to your fellow classmates reflection.  This activity will help to build your understanding of the material and to develop your ideas in collaboration with the instructor and your fellow classmates.

Poetry uses forms and conventions to suggest differential interpretation to words, or to evoke emotive responses. Devices such as assonance, alliteration, onomatopoeia and rhythm will be explored as they work to achieve musical or incantatory effects.

The use of symbolism, irony and other stylistic elements of poetic diction will be explored as students develop critical thinking skills to enhance their interpretations of the poems. Students will see how metaphor, simile and metonymy create a resonance between disparate images.

Students will explore important elements of grammar and essay writing development. Grammar topics will include: Pronoun Agreement, verb agreement, active and passive voice, and faulty parallelism. Essay writing will include lessons on MLA formatting as well as the form and structure of a proper literary essay.

Students will explore the play’s historical context and examine its various themes and story concepts. Students will read the play and develop a comprehensive understanding of the important story elements like plot, setting and symbols as well as character development in the play.

Media Studies is a discipline and field of study that deals with the content, history and effects of various media; in particular, the mass media.

Media studies may draw on traditions from both the social sciences and the humanities, but mostly from its core disciplines of mass communication, communication, communication sciences and communication studies.

Researchers may also develop and employ theories and methods from disciplines including cultural studies, rhetoric (including digital rhetoric), philosophy, literary theory, psychology, political science, political economy, economics, sociology, anthropology, social theory, art history and criticism, film theory, feminist theory, and information theory.

McLuhan’s aphorism “the medium is the message” was not restricted to mass media, and for him all human artifacts and technologies are media. A medium is anything that mediates our interaction with the world or other humans. Given this perspective of McLuhan’s media theory is not restricted to just media of communications but all forms of technology.

Another insight of McLuhan’s relevant to media theory is that media and their users form an ecosystem and the study of this ecosystem is known as media ecology.