Communication Studies 20 Modules
Creative Writing 20 Modules
Journalism Studies 20 Modules
Media Studies 20 Modules
English Language Arts 20 Modules - Recollection: A Journey Back
English Language Arts 20 Modules - Anticipation: On the Threshold
The resources listed below may provide a starting point for supporting this elective course of study.
Module 1: Introduction to Communication
Communicating for Results
Public Speaking: A Cultural Perspective
Public Speaking: An Audience-Centered Approach
Thinking Through Communication
Module 2: Short Talks
Public Speaking: A Cultural Perspective
Public Speaking: An Audience-Centered Approach
Module 3: Short Forms of Written Communication
Communicating for Results
Technical Communication
Module 4: Informational Talks
Public Speaking: A Cultural Perspective
Public Speaking: An Audience-Centered Approach
Module 5: Writing Technical Articles and Reports
Communication for Results
School to Work
Technical Communication
Module 6: Persuasive Speaking
Communicating for Results
Public Speaking: A Cultural Perspective
Public Speaking: An Audience-Centered Approach
Module 7: The Art of Debating
Canadian Writer's Companion
Mastering Competitive Debate
Thinking Through Communication
Module 8: Persuasive Writing
Communicating for Results
Technical Communication
Module 9: Writing and Presenting Proposals
Technical Communication
Module 10: Enhancing Written and Spoken Presentations
Communicating for Results
Public Speaking: A Cultural Perspective
Public Speaking: An Audience-Centered Approach
Technical Communication
Module 11: Communication and the Internet
Public Speaking: An Audience-Centered Approach
School to Work
The Teacher's Complete & Easy Guide to the Internet
Module 12: Job Search
School to Work
Technical Communication
Module 13: Interviewing
Public Speaking: A Cultural Perspective
Public Speaking: An Audience-Centered Approach
School to Work
Module 14: Group Negotiation
Public Speaking: A Cultural Perspective
Public Speaking: An Audience-Centered Approach
School to Work
Thinking Through Communication
Module 15: Writing Collaboratively
School to Work
The resources listed below may provide a starting point for supporting this elective course of study.
Essays
The Language We Knew
NTC's Anthology of Nonfiction
Mother Tongue
NTC's Anthology of Nonfiction
The Novelist as Teacher
Something to Declare
from One Writer's Beginnings
NTC's Anthology of Nonfiction
What Colour Is a Rose? (CAN, I/M)
Funny, You Don't Look Like One
Poetry
The Man Had No Useful Work
Something to Declare
Students of Scat (I/M)
Gatherings VIII
Short Stories
Bears Discover Fire
Something to Declare
Deportation
Something to Declare
The Experimental World
Something to Declare
Fire
Something to Declare
Two Sheep
Something to Declare
The Vanishing Princess or The Origins of Cubism
Something to Declare
A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings
Something to Declare
Internet Resources
Saskatchewan Writers Guild
Windscript On-line
http://www.lights.com/windscript/
Print Resources
Module One: Introduction
Deep Revision: A Guide for Teachers, Students and Other Writers
Real Toads in Imaginary Gardens: Suggestions for Starting Points for
Young Creative Writers
Thinking Through Your Writing Process
Work in Progress: A Guide to Writing and Revising
Writing Down the Bones: Feeling the Writer Within
Module Two: Writing Poetry
Getting the Knack: 20 Poetry Writing Exercises
How to Build a Long-Lasting Fire
Module Three: Writing Short Fiction
A Passion for Narrative
What If? Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers
Module Four: Writing Plays
The Playwright's Process: Learning the Craft From Today's Leading
Dramatists
Playwriting: The First Workshop
Screenwriter's Bible: A Complete Guide to Writing, Formatting and
Selling Your Script
Module Five: Writing Non-fiction
Active Voices III
The Act of Writing: Canadian Essays for Composition
The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism
The resources listed below may provide a starting point for supporting this elective course of study.
Module 1: Print Journalism
Audiovisual Resources
Beyond the Summary Lead
Development and Organization of a Story
Good Writing vs. Good Reporting
Hard News Leads
News Writing Language and Style
What Is News?
Print Resources
Associated Press Photojournalism Stylebook
A Beginner's Guide to Media Communication
The Canadian Reporter: News Writing and Reporting
How to Interview
The Internet Handbook for Writers, Researchers, and Journalists
Introduction to Media Communication
Journalism Matters
Journalism Today
Morals and the Media
The Newspaper Designer's Handbook
Photojournalism: The Professionals' Approach
Video in Focus
Writing and Reporting News: A Coaching Method
Essays
An Alternative to Fiction
Creative Writing: Forms and Techniques
Cleopatra and the Messenger (CAN)
Dimensions: A Book of Essays
Messengers in a Democratic Society (CAN)
Themes for all Times
What Natives Were Talking About in 1933 (CAN, I/M)
Funny, You Don't Look Like One
Journalese as a Second Tongue
The Arch of Experience
Module 2: Electronic Journalism
Audiovisual Resources
Demographics
Hollywood
Music and Audio
News Groups
Publishing
Internet Resources
Canadian Institute for New Media, Research, and Development
http://mediavision.cotr.bc.ca/
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/
http://www.newsworld.cbc.ca/
CNN Interactive
http://www.cnn.com/
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/
LeaderPost
http://www.leader-post.sk.ca/
Macleans
http://www.macleans.ca/
Star Phoenix
http://www.saskstar.sk.ca/
Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/thestar/index.html
University of Regina, School of Journalism
http://www.uregina.ca/journal/
Print Resources
The Internet Handbook for Writers, Researchers, and Journalists
Introduction to Media Communication
Journalism Matters
Journalism Today
Writing and Reporting News: A Coaching Method
Module 3: On Assignment
The Canadian Reporter: News Writing and Reporting
How to Interview
The Internet Handbook for Writers, Researchers, and Journalists
Introduction to Media Communication
Journalism Matters
Journalism Today
Video in Focus
Writing and Reporting News: A Coaching Method
The resources listed below may provide a starting point for supporting this elective course of study.
General Resources
Audiovisual Resources:
The Great Movie Massacre
A History of Canadian Movies (NFB)
The Movie Reel Aboriginal
Internet Resources
From Now On (Jamie MacKenzie)
http://www.fromnowon.org/
The Internet Movie Database
http://us.imdb.com/
Jesuit Communication Project
http://interact.uoregon.edu/MediaLit/JCP/index.html .
Media Foundation
http://www.adbusters.org/main/index.html
Print Resources
Mass Media and Popular Culture
Mass Media and Popular Culture, Version 2
Media Images and Issues
Essays
Barbie (CAN)
Transformations
Baseball Is Culture
All I Thought About Was Baseball
Born on the First of July Promo (CAN)
Transformations
Changing Channels (CAN)
Transformations
Cinderella Undressed
Dimensions II
Corporate Funding (CAN)
Transformations
Do We Need Pro Sports? (CAN)
Dimensions II
Ear
Transformations
The Experience (CAN)
Transformations
Fantastic Voyages: Virtual Reality (CAN)
Transformations
For Some Teens, Shopping is a Hobby (CAN)
Transformations
Hair on Television
Transformations
Hey! You Can't Do That in Here!!! (CAN)
Transformations
The Hot Dog
Transformations
The Joy of Music
Dimensions II
Look Out Power Rangers (CAN)
Transformations
Marketing the Imaginary Aboriginal (I/M)
Voices of the First Nations
Mister Blank (CAN)
Transformations
Red's Mail Call: Yukon Letter (CAN)
Transformations
Shaping a Young Male Mind (CAN)
Transformations
To Boldly Go...: A Brief Trek Into the Mind of Stephen Hawking (CAN)
Transformations
Whatever Happened to BillyJack? (CAN, I/M)
Dimensions II
The World Is a Wonderful Place
Transformations
Coloured Movies: Aboriginals on Parade (CAN, I/M)
Funny, You Don't Look Like One
A Native Perspective on Christmas (CAN, I/M)
Funny, You Don't Look Like One
North of Sixty, South of Accurate (CAN, I/M)
Funny, You Don't Look Like One
Pokahontas: Beauty and the Belief (CAN, I/M)
Funny, You Don't Look Like One
Whatever Happened to Billy Jack? (CAN, I/M)
Funny, You Don't Look Like One
Poems
Squaw Guide (CAN)(I/M)
Gatherings VIII
Module 1: Media Awareness
A Media Log
Responding to Media (CAN)
Response Journals, Parsons
A Profile of a Media Consumer
The Rise of the Couch Potato
Getting Started in Mass Media
Media Images: Fact or Fiction
The Canadian Advertising Foundation's Gender Portrayal Guidelines
Mass Media and Popular Culture
The Portrayal of Women in Media: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful
Communications in Canadian Society
Please Adjust Your Set: Media and Minorities in a Multicultural Society
Communications in Canadian Society
The Power of Images
Transformations
Talking Toys Speaks Volumes About Gender Stereotypes (CAN)
Dimensions II
Portrayal of Diversity in the Media
Audiovisual Resources:
Changing Behaviours: Issues on AIDS
Scanning Television
Local Heroes
Scanning Television
Selling Minorities
Scanning Television
Visible Minorities in Ads
Scanning Television
Print Resources:
The Aboriginal Problem: Mass Media Images Create Stereotypes and False Impressions, Cat Williams
Winds of Change, Autumn, 1995
Movies Undermine Aboriginals (SK)
The LeaderPost, March 7, 1997
"Reading" Mass Media Texts
TV Language and Techniques
Mass Media and Popular Culture
Mediaprac: A Media Skills Book for Senior Students
Meet the Media
A Matter of Perspective: Mass Media and Popular Culture
Audiovisual Resources:
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
Scanning Television
The Benetton Gallery
Scanning Television
Supermodels' Super Envy
Scanning Television
Print Resources:
Barbie Always Has Been a Political Thing (CAN)
Transformations
Breakthroughs, Unit 7
Dolls, Babes, and Bimbos
Mass Media and Popular Culture
Hollywood's Three Big Lies
Reader's Digest, November, 1995
Mass Media and Popular Culture, Chapter 1
Mondo Canuck: A Canadian Pop Culture Odyssey (CAN)
Popular Culture
Transformations
The Rise of the ‘Himbo'
Mass Media and Popular Culture
The Shocking Adman
Mass Media and Popular Culture
Today's Morality Play: The Sitcom
Media Images and Issues
Selling Images and Values: Mass Media and Advertising
Audiovisual Resources:
Christmas at Radio Shack
Scanning Television
Levi's in Europe
Scanning Television
Public Service Announcements
Scanning Television
Ridley Scott: Filmmaker as Ad Director
Scanning Television
The World According to Coke
Scanning Television
Print Resources:
Advertising: A Sociocultural Force
Communications in Canadian Society
As the Brain Tunes Out, the TV Admen Tune In
Media Images and Issues
How to Produce Advertising That Sells
Mass Media and Popular Culture
Psychographics
Mass Media and Popular Culture
The Psychology of Fast Food Happiness
Mass Media and Popular Culture
The Shocking Adman
Mass Media and Popular Culture
Creating a Media Text
Billboards: Culture or Pollution
Scanning Television
Module 2: Exploring the Medium of Television
Print Resources
Diverse Voices: Selecting Equitable Resources for Aboriginal and Métis Education
Getting Started in Mass Media
Mass Media and Popular Culture
Media Focus: Television
Media, Messages, and Language
Snow White or Bambi
Media, Messages, and Language
Module 3: Exploration of Other Media and/or Advertising
Constructing Reality
Mass Media and Popular Culture. Version 2
Mondo Canuck
Understanding Mass Media
Understanding the Film
Visual Communication: Images With Messages
Module 4: Media and Cultural Studies Project
Cultural Studies Goes to School
Doing Cultural Studies: The Story of the Sony Walkman
The following titles are provided as starting points for selection. Teachers are encouraged to choose titles from this list that are appropriate to the needs, interests, and maturity of their students, and to go beyond these lists to select other appropriate resources. Please note that some of the resources listed below may be found in the lists of out-of-print or older resources found in the bibliography. These resources are not annotated in this bibliography; annotations for these resources may be found in previously published bibliographies.
Audiovisual Resources
Both Sides Now (Compact Disc)
Hits, Joni Mitchell (SK)
Circle Game (Compact Disc)
Hits, Joni Mitchell (SK)
The Last Winter (Video) (CAN)
The Long and Winding Road (Compact Disc)
Let It Be, The Beatles
My Hometown (Compact Disc)
Born in the USA, Springsteen
Greatest Hits, Springsteen
Toys (Video) (CAN)
Tying Your Shoe (Illustration)
Insights: Identity and Learning
Understanding Comics: Blood in the Gutter(Cartoon)
Transformations
Who Has Seen the Wind? (Video) (SK)
Essays
Abuse Defined (CAN)
Your Voice and Mine 4
Adopted Son Finds Kinship With Daughter (CAN)
Dimensions II
All My Relations (CAN, I/M)
Voices: Being Native in Canada
Back to Wolf Willow (CAN)
Dimensions: A Book of Essays
Before We Begin (CAN)
When We Were Young
Beyond My Father's Shadow
Transformations
The Bison Hunt (I/M)
Becoming Brave
Breaking the Ice
Dimensions II
Casting Pearls (CAN)
Dimensions II
Catastrophe of Success
Prose for Discussion
Childhood Through the Ages
Your Voice and Mine 4
Cinderella Undressed
Dimensions II
Clashing Colours (CAN)
Insights: Identity and Learning
The Credo
Prose: Short Forms
Cruel Years (CAN, I/M)
Gatherings III
The Day the Old Man Melted (CAN)
Dimensions II
The Dionne Years (CAN)
Your Voice and Mine 3
Disadvantage to Advantage (CAN, I/M)
Voices: Being Native in Canada
Effective Streetproofing
Your Voice and Mine 4
The Enemy at Home
Your Voice and Mine 4
Everything I Learned About Life (CAN, I/M)
Funny, You Don't Look Like One
Five Suggestions for Healthy Parental Discipline
Your Voice and Mine 4
For Reading Out Loud! (CAN)
Your Voice and Mine 4
The Game of Our Lives (CAN)
Literary Experiences I
The Girl Who Loved Her Horses (CAN, I/M)
Voices: Being Native in Canada
Grimm Fairy Tales and Gory Stories (CAN)
Essays: Patterns & Perspectives
Growing Up Greek (CAN)
Breaking Through
Essays: Patterns &Perspectives
Growing Up Native (CAN, I/M)
Far and Wide
Excerpt from Halfbreed (CAN, I/M)
Our Bit of Truth
How to Do Battle With Grown-ups (CAN)
Connections 1: Imagining
I Didn't Know I Was Different (CAN, I/M)
Writing the Circle
I Was Sixteen
Global Matters
Jewish Christmas (CAN)
Breaking Through
Illuminations
Literary Experiences I
Journeys (I/M)
Voices of the First Nations
The Kids Are All Right
Family Issues
Kids Have Rights Too
Family Issues
A Miserable, Merry Christmas
Connections 1: Imagining
M-O-T-H-E-R
Dimensions II
My Father
Literary Experiences II
My Father (SK, I/M)
Voices Under One Sky
My Stepmother, My Self
Literary Experiences I
Native People Suffer From Our Bright Ideas (CAN, I/M)
Your Voice and Mine 4
The Need for Re-evaluation in Native
Education (CAN, I/M)
Writing the Circle
Nursery Crimes
The Arch of Experience
On Hating Piano Lessons (CAN)
Essays: Thought and Style
The Perilous Balancing Act of Growing Up Male
Matters of Gender
Remember, Mum, When I Mocked You? (CAN)
Transformations
Residential School (I/M)
Voices of the First Nations
Romania's Children of the Street
Coming of Age: The Art of
Growing Up
The Saga of the Fine-toothed Comb (CAN)
Breaking Through
Shaping of a Young Male Mind
Matters of Gender
Softening the Stories (CAN)
Laugh With Leacock
Sugarplum Fairy
Coming of Age: The Art of Growing Up
Tracking a Powerful Quarry (CAN, I/M)
Insights: Identity and Learning
Two Kinds
Breaking Free
Coming of Age
An Unending Cycle (I/M)
Becoming Brave
Writing the Circle
A Village Childhood (CAN)
Dimensions II
Voices of the Grandmothers (CAN, I/M)
Discoveries in Non-Fiction
Who's Afraid of the Wicked Witch?
Your Voice and Mine 4
Why TV Is Killing the Idea of Childhood
Your Voice and Mine 4
You Just Don't Understand
Matters of Gender
Your Child's Moral Values (CAN)
Your Voice and Mine 4
Novels and Full-length Nonfiction
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain
Butter Down the Well: Reflections of a
Canadian Childhood, Collins (NF)
Cold Sassy Tree, Burns
Dance Like a Poor Man, Hofer (SK)
Dawn Land, Bruchac (I/M)
The Dionne Years, Berton (NF) (CAN)
Gophers and Tumbleweed: Tales of a
Saskatchewan Boyhood, Lowes (SK)
Hey, Monias! The Story of Raphael Ironstand, Dickson (CAN,I/M)
Honour the Sun, Slipperjack (CAN, I/M)
Aboriginal School Days, Johnston, (NF) (CAN, I/M)
Joy Luck Club, Tan
Keeper'n Me, Wagamese (CAN, I/M)
Kim, Kipling
O Pioneers!, Cather
A Partisan's Memoir, Schulman (CAN)
Progeny of Light: Vanished in Darkness,
Brewster (NF) (CAN)
Raisins and Almonds, Maynard (NF) (CAN)
Shizuko's Daughter, Mori
Spite Fences, Krishner
Summer of My German Soldier, Greene
Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon, Kellogg
To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee
Upon the Head of the Goat, Siegal (NF)
Who Has Seen the Wind? Mitchell (SK)
Picture Books
If Sarah Will Take Me, Bouchard (CAN)
Josepha, McGugan (CAN)
The Paper Bag Princess, Munsch (CAN)
The Polar Express, Van Allsburg
Plays
Glass Menagerie, Williams
In a Room Somewhere
On Cue 2
Jack of Hearts (CAN)
On Cue 2
Someday (CAN, I/M)
To Set Our House in Order (CAN)
Private Lives/Public Voices
Poems
About School
Poetry Alive: Transitions
Alex (CAN)
Poetry Alive: Perspectives
Anne Frank
Preposterous Poems of Youth
A Backwards Journey (CAN)
Poetry Alive: Perspectives
Ballade of Lost Objects
Poetry Alive: Reflections
Beneath the Frozen Moon (CAN)
A Sudden Radiance
Brothers
Matters of Gender
Bird in the Classroom (CAN)
Poetry Alive: Perspectives
Birth (CAN)
Poetry Alive: Perspectives
Centaur
Always Begin Where You Are
The Child I Was (CAN)
Poetry Alive: Reflections
Child Running (CAN)
A Sudden Radiance
Child Standing Alone (CAN, I/M)
Gatherings IV
Gatherings VI
The Child Who Walks Backwards (SK)
A Sudden Radiance
Family Issues
Childhood (CAN)
Poetry Alive: Reflections
Children
Poetry Alive: Transitions
The Children of Bagota (CAN)
Global Matters
The Child's Sight
Poetry Alive: Perspectives
City Slick Her (CAN, I/M)
Gatherings VI
Coaster-Waggon On Aboriginal Grove (CAN)
Poetry Alive: Reflections
Coming of Age (SK)
Farm
Complaining Day
Poetry Alive: Perspectives
Credo
Poetry Alive: Perspectives
A Cree Child (CAN, I/M)
James Bay Memoirs
Did I Miss Anything? (CAN
Insights: Identity and Learning
Don't Burst the Bubble (CAN, I/M)
Gatherings VIII
Doppelganger
Coast to Coast
Dream Three: The Child (CAN)
Themes on the Journey
The Dreamers (SK)
Farm
Empty House
Poetry Alive: Perspectives
Excursions Into Error (SK)
Singing Sky
Faces (SK)
Farm
Fear of Snakes (CAN)
Poetry Alive: Transitions
A Sudden Radiance
Fern Hill
Poetry Alive: Perspectives
Themes on the Journey
Work and Leisure
Getting Braces (SK)
Farm
Green Rain (CAN)
Insights: Identity and Learning
Growing Up
Something to Declare
The Hoop (CAN)
Poetry Alive: Reflections
I Grew Up (CAN, I/M)
Insights: Identity and Learning
(I Remember) Back Home (CAN)
Transformations
In the Pocket of Her Son's Jeans (SK)
Farm
Johnnie's Poem (CAN)
Matters of Gender
Poetry Alive: Transitions
Journey of a Native Child (CAN, I/M)
Gatherings II
Just Remember (I/M)
Voices of the First Nations
Lake of Bays (CAN)
Transformations
Lament (Millay)
Poetry Alive: Perspectives
Letter to My Mother
Poetry Alive: Reflections
Lies
Poetry Alive: Perspectives
Breaking Free
Little Johnny's Confession
Connections 1: Imagining
Luka
Connections 1: Imagining
Your Voice and Mine 4
The Man Who Finds That His Son Has
Become a Thief (CAN)
Poetry Alive: Transitions
Your Voice and Mine 3
Memories (CAN)
Transformations
Memories of Fort George and of Alice... (CAN, I/M)
James Bay Memoirs
Mother Love
Departures
Motherhood (CAN)
Themes on the Journey
Mothers
Poetry Alive: Reflections
The Mother's Song (CAN, I/M)
Themes on the Journey
My Father (CAN, I/M)
Gatherings IV
My Father's Leaving
Preposterous Poems of Youth
My Guilt
Poetry Alive: Transitions
My Heart Leaps Up
Themes on the Journey
My Nokum (CAN, I/M)
Our Bit of Truth
My Papa's Waltz (CAN)
Themes on the Journey
My Residential School Years Ago (CAN, I/M)
James Bay Memoirs
Night
Insights: Identity and Learning
The Night Grandma Died (CAN)
A Sudden Radiance
Night Flying Woman (I/M)
Voices of the First Nations
On the Way to School (CAN)
Poetry Alive: Perspectives
Pages from Jenny's Diary (CAN)
Poetry Alive: Reflections
Penemue and the Aboriginals (I/M)
Gatherings VII
The Piano (CAN)
Inside Poetry
Oxford Book of Canadian Verse
Poetry Lesson Number One
Preposterous Poems of Youth
Powwow Days (CAN, I/M)
Gatherings IV
Prayer Before Birth
Global Matters
Pride (SK)
Farm
A Pure and Startled Second (SK)
Farm
Reading the Brothers Grimm to Jenny (CAN)
Poetry Alive: Reflections
Remember (I/M)
Reclaiming the Vision
The Ride (CAN)
A Sudden Radiance
Ronnie Schwinck
Preposterous Poems of Youth
Rough/My Parents Kept Me
numerous sources
A Storm, a Blanket, Grandpa and Me
(CAN, I/M)
James Bay Memoirs
The Stranger
Your Voice and Mine 3
Students (CAN)
Poetry Alive: Perspectives
Swinging the River
Preposterous Poems of Youth
Swings (CAN)
Poetry Alive: Transitions
Terry (CAN)
Poetry Alive: Perspectives
Their Names (SK)
Preposterous Poems of Youth
Those Winter Sundays
Poetry Alive: Reflections
To a Child Dancing in the Wind
Poetry Alive: Transitions
To David, About His Education
Poetry Alive: Perspectives
Two Parts Bitter Fruit (SK)
Farm
A Visit in Mid-Summer (I/M)
Voices of the First Nations
Warren Pryor
Poetry Alive: Transitions
What Will You Be? (CAN)
Poetry Alive: Perspectives
When I Was Small (CAN, I/M)
Our Bit of Truth
When I'm Not There (CAN, I/M)
Gatherings VIII
Without Hands (CAN)
Global Matters
Zimmer in Grade School
Preposterous Poems of Youth
Short Stories
Adajo, Means Good-bye
Coming of Age
Aman: The Story of a Somali Girl
Coming of Age: The Art of Growing Up
The Bars and the Bridge (CAN)
The Time of Your Life
The Bicycle (SK)
Notes Across the Aisle
A Bird in the House (CAN)
A Bird in the House
Illuminations
Worlds Unrealized II
The Black Dog
Global Reading Safari
The Blue Camaro (SK)
The Blue Camaro
Borders (CAN, I/M)
Transformations
Boys and Girls (CAN)
The Time of Your Life
Broken Chain
Coming of Age
The Bully (CAN)
Illuminations
The Burial Mound (I/M)
Voices of the First Nations
The Caller (CAN)
Connections 1: Imagining
A Cap for Steve (CAN)
Illuminations
Charles
Matters of Gender
Prose for Discussion
The Short Story and You
Charlie (CAN, I/M)
A Corner in Each Life
The Charmer (CAN)
Cordelia Clark
Comes a Time (SK)
Notes Across the Aisle
Cordelia Clark (CAN)
Cordelia Clark
Cranes Fly South (CAN)
Early September
Day of the Butterfly (CAN)
Literary Experiences I
A Day With a Deer, a Bear and Norah Smith
100 Years of Cowboy Stories
A Day With Pegasus (CAN)
Illuminations
Dead Jim (SK)
Notes Across the Aisle
Dear Daddy (CAN, I/M)
Global Reading Safari
Deep Freeze (SK)
Notes Across the Aisle
Doing Something (SK)
The Blue Camaro
The Doll's House
Seasons of Life
The Dragon Tamer (SK)
Takes
Eat, Sleep, Jump High for Smarties (SK)
The Blue Camaro
Eleven
Coming of Age
Elly, Nell and Eleanor (CAN)
Golden Girl and Other Stories
The Fall of a City (CAN)
Tigers of the Snow
The Father (CAN)
numerous sources
Father and I
The Storyteller
Fear
Your Voice and Mine 4
First Confession
Sunlight and Shadow
First Day in School (CAN)
Seasons of Life
Gall (CAN)
The Time of Your Life
Girl
Something to Declare
Golden Pants (CAN)
More Strawberries
Goldenrod (CAN)
Connections 1: Imagining
The Good Girls
Family Issues
Grace (I/M)
Spider Woman's Granddaughters
The Great Electrical Revolution (CAN)
Literary Experiences II
Excerpt from Honour the Sun (CAN, I/M)
Our Bit of Truth
Hair (SK)
The Blue Jean Collection
Half a Day
Something to Declare
Half-Husky (CAN)
A Bird in the House
How It Was in Winter
Connections 1: Imagining
How to Tell Renata (SK)
Notes Across the Aisle
It All Comes Back Now
Insights: Identity and Learning
Jack of Hearts
Worlds Unrealized II
Looking for Mr. God (CAN)
Connections 1: Imagining
The Loons (CAN)
Seasons of Life
The Storyteller
Voices 2
A Man (CAN)
More Strawberries
The Man in the Casket
Coming of Age
Margaret Has a Real Mean Laugh
Connections 1: Imagining
The Metaphor (CAN)
Inside Stories II
The Leaving
A Mother in Mannville
Coming of Age
The Mouth-organ Boys
The Time of Your Life
The Music Lesson (SK)
various sources
My Mother and Father (CAN)
The Leaving
My War (SK)
Notes Across the Aisle
Open Winter
100 Years of Cowboy Stories
Penny in the Dust (CAN)
Coast to Coast
Peripheral Dreams (SK)
Notes Across the Aisle
The Playground
Work and Leisure
The Power of Horses (CAN, I/M)
Spider Woman's Granddaughters
The Rink (SK)
The Blue Camaro
The Blue Jean Collection
School Days (CAN, I/M)
Voices: Being Native in Canada
School, The First Day (SK)
Breaking Through
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ½
The Time of Your Life
A Secret Lost in the Water (CAN)
Transformations
Separation
Global Reading Safari
She
The Time of Your Life
Skipper (CAN)
Breaking Free
Excerpt from Slash (CAN, I/M)
Our Bit of Truth
Small-Town Napoleon (CAN)
Golden Girl and Other Stories
The Stolen Party
Breaking Free
The Storyteller
The Story of the Nil (CAN)
Breaking Through
Literary Experiences II
Sucker
Coming of Age
Sugar Train (SK)
Notes Across the Aisle
The Summer My Grandmother was Supposed to Die (CAN)
Illuminations
Sunday With a Difference
The Time of Your Life
Swallowtails
Something to Declare
To Everything There is a Season (CAN)
Matters of Gender
To Set Our House in Order (CAN)
Literary Experiences I
Worlds Unrealized I
Traplines (CAN, I/M)
One Good Story, That One
Tuesday Siesta
The Storyteller
A Veil of Water
Coming of Age
A Visit of Charity
Coming of Age
A Visit to Grandmother
Short Story: The Plot Thickens
War (CAN)
Inside Stories II
Was it Fun on the Beach Today? (CAN)
Cordelia Clark
What's a Bum, Mom?
Something to Declare
Winter Oak
Global Reading Safari
The following titles are provided as starting points for selection. Teachers are encouraged to choose titles from this list that are appropriate to the needs, interests, and maturity of their students, and to go beyond these lists to select other appropriate resources. Please note that some of the resources listed below may be found in the lists of out-of-print or older resources found in the bibliography. These resources are not annotated in this bibliography; annotations for these resources may be found in previously published bibliographies.
Audiovisual Resources
Bordertown Café (CAN)
Cages (CAN, I/M)
Circle of the Sun (CAN)
Cornet at Night (CAN)
The Making of the Soft Eclipse (CAN)
An Ounce of Cure (CAN)
The Soft Eclipse (CAN)
Essays
Aboriginal Love in the '90s (CAN, I/M)
Funny, You Don't Look Like One
Aboriginal Youth: Warriors in the Present
Day (CAN, I/M)
Gatherings II
Adrift at 20-Something (CAN)
Dimensions II
Afternoon of an American Boy
Essays: Patterns and Perspectives
Am I Old Yet?
Dimensions II
And May the Best Cheater Win (CAN)
Essays: Patterns and Perspectives
A Bag of Possibles and Other Matters of the Mind
Discoveries in Non-Fiction
Between Ourselves: Letters Between Mothers
and Daughters
Discoveries in Non-Fiction
Breaking Tradition
Your Voice and Mine 4
Catastrophe of Success
Prose for Discussion
Cherokee Wisdom: Balance the Earth (I/M)
Gatherings VI
Choosing Our Future
Work and Leisure
Daddytrack
Family Issues
Daughter (I/M)
Gatherings VIII
Dear Mom: This Is the Letter I Would Have
Written (CAN)
Family Issues
Don't Let Stereotypes Warp Your Judgments
Essays: Patterns and Perspectives
Drive, Hard Work Helped Make It in Skilled
Trades
Your Voice and Mine 4
A Drunk Drivers' Race to the Grave (CAN)
Your Voice and Mine 3
Eliciting Human Potential
Prose: Short Form
Employability Skills Profile
Work and Leisure
Hades
Work and Leisure
The Hand That Holds the Car Keys Rules the World
Connections 2: Relating
The 'High' of an Honest Win (CAN)
Essays: Patterns and Perspectives
Househusbands Are a Growing Phenomenon
Your Voice and Mine 4
How to Spot Rock Types (CAN)
Essays: Patterns and Perspectives
How You Should Write a Job Application
Letter (CAN)
Your Voice and Mine 4
I'm Not Slave Material
Family Issues
Interview With Blaine Favel (CAN, I/M)
Voices of the First Nations
Keepers of the Past (I/M)
Voices of the First Nations
Letter for Teri
Your Voice and Mine 4
Life Long Learning (CAN, I/M)
Gatherings VI
from The Lords of Discipline
Matters of Gender
Margaret Mead: Some Personal Views on
Education
Insights: Identity and Learning
Married
Dimensions II
Memories of a Non-Prom Queen
Literary Experiences I
The Mind-Style of the Entrepreneur
Work and Leisure
A New Vision of Livelihood
Work and Leisure
Peer Pressure: Who Rules You?
Your Voice and Mine 3
Psychic Economics
Dimensions II
Rape on Campus (CAN)
Essays: Patterns & Perspectives
Revolution from Within: Bell, Oklahoma (I/M)
Insights: Identity and Learning
Rising Above the Turmoil (CAN)
Essays: Patterns & Perspectives
The Sacred Circle: Spirituality and Jo Duquette High School (SK, I/M)
Making the Spirit Dance Within
The Search for the Perfect Body (CAN)
Discoveries in Nonfiction
Seize the Day (CAN)
Essays: Patterns & Perspectives
Sexism in Rock-and-Roll Lyrics (CAN)
Essays: Patterns & Perspectives
So You're Applying for a Job (CAN)
Your Voice and Mine 4
Speed Living
Dimensions II
Standard Answers
Family Issues
Strangers (CAN)
Family Issues
Students Against Driving Drunk (CAN)
Your Voice and Mine 3
The Students: Respect is the Number One Rule (SK, I/M)
Making the Spirit Dance Within
Taking Back the Night: One Woman's
Experience (CAN)
Essays: Patterns & Perspectives
Tales of a Mother/Confessor
Discoveries in Non-Fiction
Teen Trends: The Role of Education (CAN)
Insights: Identity and Learning
Teens Live In Dangerous Dream World
(CAN)
Your Voice and Mine 4
That's How It Is: Life for a Young Asian Girl
Essays: Patterns & Perspectives
The Time Factor
Dimensions II
25 Things Your Boss Wants You to Know
(CAN)
Your Voice and Mine 4
Unfolding as They Should (CAN)
Literary Experiences I
Watch Out for the Lure of Holden
Essays: Patterns & Perspectives
What Comes Around
Dimensions II
When Boy Meets Girl
Essays: Patterns & Perspectives
When Does a Boy Become a Man?
Essays: Patterns & Perspectives
When Men Refuse to Grow Up
Essays: Patterns & Perspectives
When Teens Drink and Drive... (CAN)
Your Voice and Mine 3
Work More, Learn Less
Dimensions II
X-Rated Boob Tube (CAN)
Essays: Patterns & Perspectives
Novels and Full-length Non-fiction
Dear Nobody, Doherty
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Tyler
Each Man's Son, MacLennan (CAN)
Far from Shore, Major (CAN)
Haveli, Staples
Keeper ‘n Me, Wagamese (CAN, I/M)
Medicine River, King (CAN, I/M)
Memory, Mahy
Saint Maybe, Tyler
A Separate Peace, Knowles
Something for Joey, Peck
Plays
Acoose: Man Standing Above Ground, Acoose (I/M)
Voices of the First Nations
Another Morning, Petch (CAN)
Contours
The Apollo of Bellac, Giraudoux (CAN)
Take Ten
Bordertown Café, Rebar (CAN)
The Glass Menagerie, Williams
How I Met My Husband, Munro (CAN)
On Cue 2
Inukshuk, Hurley (CAN, I/M)
Contours
The Last Moon, Fantetti (CAN)
Contours
A Marriage Proposal, Chekhov
Private Lives; Public Voices
Medicine River, King(CAN, I/M)
Private Lives; Public Voices
No Means No!, Frost, Olson, & Johnson (SK)
Eureka
On Golden Pond, Thompson
Connections 3: Discovering
One's a Heifer, Dorn (CAN)
Contours
Pygmalion, Shaw
Salt-water Moon, French (CAN)
Salt-water Moon, French(CAN)
Contours
On Cue 2
The Soft Eclipse, Gault (SK)
Switching Places, Deverell (SK)
Eureka
Tit-Coq (CAN)
Toronto at Dreamer's Rock, Taylor (CAN, I/M)
Contours
Toronto at Dreamer's Rock & Education Is Our Right
Trip for Mrs. Taylor, Garner (CAN)
Take Ten
Wheel of Justice, SUNTEP (SK, I/M)
Eureka
Yesterday the Children Were Dancing, Gelinas (CAN)
Poems
Adolescence (CAN)
Connections 2: Relating
Literary Experiences I
Poetry Alive: Perspectives
Advice to the Young (CAN)
Poetry Alive: Perspectives
Alex (CAN)
Literary Experiences II
Poetry Alive: Perspectives
Alone
Poetry Alive: Reflections
Andrea Del Sarto
Literary Experiences II
As if I Were There Sun (CAN, I/M)
A Really Good Brown Girl
At Gull Lake; August, 1810 (CAN)
Literary Experiences I
At Seventeen
Connections 2: Relating
Your Voice and Mine 4
The Average
Departures
Becoming Woman (CAN, I/M)
Gatherings VI
Before Two Portraits of My Mother (CAN)
Literary Experiences I
Black Jackets
Literary Experiences I
Blue Sky Pokes (CAN, I/M)
A Really Good Brown Girl
Cold Rooms (CAN, I/M)
Gatherings IV
Community Supper (CAN)
Poetry Alive: Transitions
A Sudden Radiance
The Crow Hop (I/M)
Voices of the First Nations
The Day I Married
Family Issues
The Day We Picked the Apartment (SK)
Farm
Departure (CAN)
Connections 2: Relating
Dreams
Departures
Eighteen
Literary Experiences I
Examiner (CAN)
Connections 3: Discovering
Fifteen
Poetry Alive: Transitions
The First Day
Poetry Alive: Transitions
First Ice
Themes on the Journey
For Anne (CAN)
Literary Experiences I
Themes on the Journey
Your Voice and Mine 4
Graduation Evening (CAN)
Connections 3: Discovering
Poetry Alive: Reflections
High Heels
numerous sources
The Hitchhiker (CAN)
numerous sources
Horse-Fly Blue (CAN,I/M)
A Really Good Brown Girl
How to Be Old
Something to Declare
I Dreamed a Dream
Poetry Alive: Reflections
Departures
I, Icarus (CAN)
Poetry Alive: Transitions
Themes on the Journey
I Should Have Caught My Unicorn When I
Was
Poetry Alive: Perspectives
I Will Walk...
Departures
Imprints
Poetry Alive: Transitions
Innocence (CAN)
Poetry Alive: Perspectives
Jamie (CAN)
Connections 2: Relating
Literary Experiences I
Poetry Alive: Transitions
The Kid Who Only Visits Now (SK)
Farm
The Last Song
Family Issues
Learning to Drive (CAN)
Family Issues
Let the Ponies Out (CAN, (I/M)
A Really Good Brown Girl
Letter to Sir John A. Macdonald (CAN, I/M)
A Really Good Brown Girl
Letting Go (CAN, I/M)
Poetry Alive: Reflections
Lies
Breaking Free
My Lodge (SK, I/M)
Gatherings VI
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Departures
Poetry Alive: Perspectives
Now That Our Love
Your Voice and Mine 4
Our Elder-My Nokomis Speaks (I/M)
Voices of the First Nations
Out, Out
numerous sources
Paper Matches
Poetry Alive: Transitions
Departures
The Princess in the Tower (CAN)
Poetry Alive: Perspectives
Promises (CAN, I/M)
Gatherings IV
The Rites of Manhood (CAN)
Transformations
Road Allowance (SK, I/M)
Gatherings VI
St. George (CAN)
Poetry Alive: Reflections
Sudden Radiance
Saturday Night (CAN)
Departures
Someone Who Used to Have Someone
(CAN)
Sunburst
Song for Naomi (CAN)
numerous sources
Substitute (CAN)
Poetry Alive: Reflections
To a Sad Daughter (CAN)
Literary Experiences I
Poetry Alive: Reflections
To a Woman (CAN, I/M)
Gatherings IV
To an Athlete Dying Young
numerous sources
To Be in Love
Your Voice and Mine 4
To Youth
Poetry Alive: Perspectives
Warren Pryor (CAN)
Coast to Coast
Departures
Poetry Alive: Transitions
Wayman in the Workforce: Actively Seeking Employment
Poetry Alive: Reflections
What Shall He Tell That Son?
Poetry Alive: Reflections
When You Walk Through My Door (CAN, I/M)
A Really Good Brown Girl
Wild Berries (CAN, I/M)
A Really Good Brown Girl
Words
Your Voice and Mine 4
Work is Love
Work and Leisure
The World is a Beautiful Place
Poetry Alive: Perspectives
The Worst Pain (CAN)
A Sudden Radiance
You Walked Gently Towards Me
Something to Declare
Young
Themes on the Journey
Zip on "Good Advice", (SK)
Preposterous Poems of Youth
Short Stories
A & P
The Short Story and You
As It Was in the Beginning (I/M)
Spider Woman's Granddaughters
Awakenings (SK)
Singing Sky
B. Wordsworth
The Storyteller
Babysitting Helen (SK)
Takes
The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant
Coming of Age
The Beginning of Something
The Time of Your Life
Beginnings (SK)
Laws of Emotion
The Bicycle (SK)
Notes Across the Aisle
The Broken Globe (CAN)
Breaking Through
Literary Experiences I
Bulat Kisses (SK)
Notes Across the Aisle
Butcher Bird (CAN)
Prose for Discussion
Cages (CAN)
Worlds Unrealized I
Carrion Spring (CAN)
100 Years of Cowboy Stories
A Company of Laughing Faces
Global Reading Safari
Cornet at Night (CAN)
Worlds Unrealized II
The Darling
Matters of Gender
Dreams (CAN)
Cordelia Clark
Everyone Talked Loudly in Chinatown (CAN)
Breaking Free
Coast to Coast
Insights: Relationships & Responsibility
The First Born Son (CAN)
Heartland
Singing Under Ice
From Mother With Love
The Short Story and You
Goalie (CAN)
More Strawberries
Guess What? I Almost Kissed My Father
Goodnight
Coming of Age
Your Voice and Mine 3
Happy Birthday
The Short Story and You
The Happy Pill (CAN)
Cordelia Clark
Horses of the Night (CAN)
A Bird in the House
Inside Stories for Senior Students
I Go Along
Coming of Age
The Job (SK)
Takes
The Listener (CAN)
Cordelia Clark
Louisa, Please Come Home
Coming of Age
Magpies (CAN, I/M)
One Good Story, That One
Mine on Thursdays
The Short Story and You
The Moose and the Sparrow (CAN)
More Strawberries
The Moustache
The Short Story and You
O What Venerable and Reverend Creatures.(SK)
Something to Declare
Your Voice and Mine 4
Of Time and Teeth (SK)
Laws of Emotion
An Ounce of Cure (CAN)
Sunlight and Shadows
Singing Under Ice
Your Voice and Mine 3
Outside the Marriage Bureau
Breaking Free
The Parsley Garden
The Short Story and You
Pita of the Deep Sea
Global Reading Safari
A Plane Ride to the Future (CAN, I/M)
Gatherings IV
A Private Talk with Holly
Coming of Age
Shaving
Coming of Age
A Short Walk Home (CAN)
various sources
Sixteen
The Short Story and You
Sticktalk (I/M)
Voices of the First Nations
The Story of Green Blanket Feet (I/M)
Spider Woman's Granddaughters
Strawberrries (CAN, I/M)
Gatherings II
Sucker
The Short Story and You
Teenage Wasteland
Coming of Age
Your Voice and Mine 3
Connections 2: Relating
Thanks for the Ride (CAN)
Your Voice and Mine 4
Things Happen (SK)
Takes
Traplines (CAN, I/M)
One Good Story, That One
A Trip for Mrs. Taylor (CAN)
Seasons of Life
Two Fishermen
Connections 3: Discovering
Oxford Anthology of Canadian Literature
Tigers of the Snow
Undertow (SK)
Takes
Untitled (CAN, I/M)
Gatherings IV
Voices of the First Nations
Vocational Counselling
Breaking Free
A Walk to the Jetty
Coming of Age
Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories
Sunlight and Shadows
The Way It Ended (CAN)
The Time of Your Life
A Wedge of Shade (I/M)
Something to Declare
What I Learned From Caesar (CAN)
Breaking Through
Illuminations
The Winner
Something to Declare
The Yellow Sweater (CAN)
various sources