ENG2D Grade 10 English (Academic)
The academic Grade 10 course, usually a student’s first Shakespeare and first sustained analytical essays — and it lands in the same year as the OSSLT, so the reading and writing stamina built here does double duty.
Inside the course
Novel study with analytical response writing
Drama: a full Shakespeare play in context
Persuasive writing and rhetorical technique
Media studies: how form shapes message
OSSLT-style reading and writing tasks
Where it leads
Leads to ENG3U. Strong ENG2D habits — quotation integration, thesis discipline — are what make the U-level jump manageable.
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Assessment & credit
Standard Ontario assessment: 70% coursework, 30% final evaluation. Completion ships as an official transcript, OUAC-listed and recognized by public and private schools.
How we run it
Small groups, online or in person (Markham campus); semester, summer and winter intakes, scheduled around the student’s Top 6 plan.
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