ENG4U Course Outline

ENG4U – Assignment Breakdown

Topic and Description                                                                         Percent of Final Mark

Essay Writing, Research and Proper Citation                                                       10%

University Level English Skills                                                                                 5%

(Summarizing and Close-Reading)                                                                

-          Read two notes

-          Practice Summarizing newspaper/magazine articles

-          Practice Close-Reading of “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place”

Hamlet                                                                                                                        15%

-          Film

-          Character Study

-          Short Essay

Joyce’s Dubliners                                                                                                      15%

-          Dublin slide show

-          Quizzes for “The Sisters”, “Araby”, "The Boarding House" and "A Painful Case"

-          "The Dead" Comic or Essay

Poetry Unit                                                                                                                15%

-          Power Point lesson on Poetic Terms

-          Close Reading of three Poems of your choice

-          Three 1-page Poetry Responses to 3 different poems

Literary Criticism                                                                                                     10%

-          What’s a lens?

-          Major Schools of Criticism

-          Applying a lens to a text

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Canonical Novel Study Culminating                                                                           30%

-         What is the Canon?

-         "The Canon" Essay