...English-E11-12 7/27/07 2:24 PM Page 1 Ministry of Education The Ontario Curriculum Grades 11 and 12 English Printed on recycled paper 07-003 ISBN 978-1-4249-4741-6 (Print) ISBN 978-1-4249-4742-3 (PDF) ISBN 978-1-4249-4743-0 (TXT) © Queen’s Printer for Ontario, 2007 2007 REVISED CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 3 Secondary Schools for the Twenty-first Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Importance of Literacy, Language, and the English Curriculum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Principles Underlying the English Curriculum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Roles and Responsibilities in English Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . THE PROGRAM IN ENGLISH 3 3 4 5 9 Overview of the Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Curriculum Expectations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Strands in the English Curriculum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION OF STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT Basic Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . ....
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...Helpsheet GOOD WRITING PLANNING & DRAFTING YOUR FIRST PAPER Use this sheet to help you: • understand the 5 main steps of writing • preparing and planning to write an essay or report 5 minute self test Consider the following questions before reading the helpsheet: • What are the five typical stages involved in completing an assignment or report? • What are directive words? Name three commonly used directive words used by lecturers in setting assignment questions? • How is “brainstorming” used in assignment preparation? • What’s the difference between a mind map, concept map and spider diagram and how can they be used in assignment preparation? • List some words and phrases commonly used in sequencing paragraphs in assignment writing? • How does one write an argument in an assignment? • What do you need to consider when editing an assignment? • What’s referencing? © The University of Melbourne 2010. These materials were produced by the Teaching and Learning Unit, University of Melbourne. The University of Sydney has reproduced these materials under licence from the University of Melbourne. Helpsheet GOOD WRITING Good writing is writing that effectively conveys to another person what is in a writer’s mind. In any profession, writing is very important, even in the professions that are not traditionally associated with writing, you will have to communicate with colleagues and clients. The value of writing is that putting something down on paper forces...
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...MNGT 2001 | GROUP CASE STUDY REPORT | 4/12/2015 4/12/2015 Executive Summary The purpose of this report is to analyse and evaluate the business strategy of Singapore Airlines. The report provides an informed review of Singapore Airlines’ executive management or organisational strategic analysis, decision making, implementation and evaluation of performance outcomes. Therefore, the report will cover many aspects such as strategic analysis, strategic directions and strategic objectives key-board business-level and international strategic, strategic implementation, as well as key strategic implementation issues and strategic evaluation. The strategic analysis takes place whereby analysing two general environments of Singapore Airlines. The first environment is the external environment which consists of PESTLE model, Porter’s Five Forces plus the government model, and the competitors of Singapore Airlines. The following is the internal environment which consists of Strategy Resources and Core Competency of Singapore Airlines. According to the results received from these two environmental analysis, Singapore Airlines has adopted an unusual dual-strategy. Vision, Mission, and stakeholder theory will be covered in the strategic direction setting. This part of the report will explain all sort of stakeholders and the importance of them to Singapore Airlines. Singapore Airlines adopted dual-strategy by competency of cost-effective service excellence, enshrined in a unique...
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...for creating, delivering and communicating value to customers, and managing customer relationships in ways that also benefit the organisation and its shareholders. Marketing is the science of choosing target markets through market analysis and market segmentation, as well as understanding consumer buying behaviour and providing superior customer value A practice involving the application of branding and sales strategies to different regions, cities, states or countries. An example of place marketing in business consists of tourism departments and city councils with place marketing teams competing to attract tourists and new residents use branding techniques. Also called territorial marketing or place branding. KERALA Kerala hardly needs any introduction for the international traveller. It is in fact one the best branded states in the country and has been exceedingly successful at it for a while. With the Arabian Sea in the west, the Western Ghats towering 500-2700 ms in the east and networked by 44 rivers, Kerala enjoys unique geographical features that have made it one of the most sought...
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...resources, gain international recognition and attract prospects for further business transactions. Despite the rise of previous tourism obstacles such as epidemic and terrorism attacks, countries from all over the world attempt to revive their tourism industry through extensive marketing and development. Indeed, the start of the 21st century witnessed various growing tourism trends that other nations followed and applied. Among these are the developments observed in global tourism’s latest visitor attractions. Thus, in this brief essay, the different tourism trends worldwide will be described. How these trends had affected the latest visitor attractions will also be discussed. Latest Trends Sports Tourism Sports in general have been an important aspect of global culture; it is in the conduction of sports where language and cultural barriers are replaced by the universal eagerness for such activities. Recently, several sports activities are being held in different countries, which in turn attracted a number of tourists. Diving, golf and yachting are some of the latest activities under sports tourism that are attracting a significant travel market portion, particularly in Europe, Unites States and Japan. The growing interest of foreign travelers for sports attractions is further stressed by the results of a statistical report where 62% of international tourism...
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...A VISUAL GUIDE TO ESSAY WRITING Dr Valli Rao, Associate Professor Kate Chanock, and Dr Lakshmi Krishnan use a visual approach to walk students through the most important processes in essay writing for university: formulating, refining, and expressing academic argument. ‘MetamorTHESIS‘ Your main argument or thesis is your position in answer to the essay question. It changes and develops as you undertake your reading and research towards the essay. how to develop & communicate academic argument “I love the way the authors explain what an argument is. I also love the way they justify holding opinions in an academic context … A Visual Guide to Essay Writing shows you excellently how to communicate with your marker by employing your ‘authorial voice’.” - Dr Alastair Greig Head, School of Social Sciences The Australian National University Valli Rao Kate Chanock Lakshmi Krishnan “This is a great book ... clear, useful, beautifully conceived and produced ... an intriguing approach, one that will make sense to students and really assist their essay writing skills.” - Brigid Ballard & John Clanchy authors of the international best-seller Essay writing for students: a practical guide How effective structure supports reasoned argument in essays1 Discipline/field Topic Underlying question Introduce discipline/field/context and topic Roughly, 10–15% of essay length Why is this topic interesting from the perspective of the discipline/field...
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...Topic: Apply the Porter's five forces model on Automobile Industry and analyse the attractiveness of the Industry for Investment purpose Evolution of Porter's Five Forces Model Five forces is a framework for the industry analysis and business strategy development developed by Michael E. Porter of Harvard Business School in 1979. Michael Porter is a professor at Harvard Business School andis a leading authority on competitive strategy and international competitiveness.Michael Porter was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Five forces uses concepts developing, Industrial Organization (IO) economics to derive five forces that determine the competitive intensity and therefore attractiveness of a market. Attractiveness in this context refers to the industry profitability. An "unattractive" industry is one where the combination of forces acts to drive down overall profitability. A very unattractive industry would be one approaching "pure competition". Introduction Five Forces Model by Michael Porter Five Forces model of Michael Porter is a very elaborate concept for evaluating company's competitive position. Michael Porter provided a framework that models an industry and therefore implicitly alsobusinesses asbeing influenced by five forces.Michael Porter's Five Forces model is often used in strategic planning. Porter's competitive fiveforces model is probably one of the mostcommonly used business strategy tools and has proven its usefulness in numerous situations when exploring...
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...SOY00411 Tourism Theories and Practices Unit Information Guide Session 3 2013 CRICOS Provider: NSW 01241G, QLD 03135E © 2013 Southern Cross University Southern Cross University Military Road East Lismore NSW 2480 No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior written permission of the publisher. Copyright material indicated in this work has been copied under Part VB of the Copyright Act 1968. Contents Welcome ......................................................................................................................................... 5 Teaching staff ................................................................................................................. 5 Where to get help....................................................................................................................... 6 School enquiries ............................................................................................................. 6 Student liaison team ....................................................................................................... 6 Technology Services....................................................................................................... 6 Academic Skills Development ....................................................................................... 6 Student Services ...........
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...Managing a Business Strategy - Apple Inc 1.0 Executive Summary This study is to examine and analyse the strategic decisions of Apple Inc. that has enabled it to sustain its competitive advantages one of the world’s third leading electronic company. Before providing recommendations for future strategy choices it is necessary to integrate the diverse strategies in both external and internal environments, identify the opportunities, threats, strength and weaknesses, examine the core competencies, which can create sustainable competitive advantages. The research will reveal critical analysis relevant to analyse the company’s environment in the electronic industry which includes SWOT, the PESTEL framework, Porter’s 5 forces and 3 generic theories, value chain analysis and core competencies, as to how it has successfully penetrated into the electronic market. 2.0 Introduction 3.1 Background of Apple Apple is a Californian multinational corporation founded in 1stApril 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne, to develop and sell personal computers. It was incorporated as Apple Computer, Inc. on January 3, 1977, and was renamed as Apple Inc. on January 9, 2007, to show its change in focus towards consumer electronics. Apple is the world's second-largest information technology company by revenue after Samsung Electronics, and the world's third-largest mobile phone maker. On November 25, 2014, in addition to being the largest publicly traded corporation in...
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...| Organizational Technology | 14 | 9. | Culture | 15 | 10 | References | 19 | | | | | | | Purpose of this paper: This paper is meant to demonstrate how retail industry in India applies the concepts of organization theory to real life organizational situations. Every organization, regardless of size uses these concepts to some degree because the foundation of the organization is built on these principles. In our report, we talk about Big Bazaar, the largest hypermarket chain in India. We would like to provide a detailed perspective into the organization theory aspects of Big Bazaar such as: * The Vision and Mission of the Big Bazaar: How it reflects through structure? * Organizational Context and Structure: Analyse the organization’s context and structure * Strategy: How would the company achieve its goals? * Environment: What is the nature of Environment? * Organizational Technology: What is the nature of the technology and does it fit with the structure? * Culture: What is the culture of the organization? We would begin our report by providing a brief overview of retail industry and Big Bazaar. This would be followed by discussing each of the points listed above by applying the concepts of organization theory to each individual point....
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...Annika Heus Sejin Park Lieke van Nunen Amelie Schuster Irene Stratermans Marketing plan “La Trappe” Marketing plan “La Trappe” Table of content Chapter 1 Executive summary 4 Chapter 2 Introduction 6 Chapter 3 Organization information 7 Chapter 4 Country for export 8 4.1 Introduction 8 4.2 Numbers of China 8 4.3 Consumer trends 8 4.4 Target population 9 4.5 Different kinds of beers 10 4.6 Conclusion 11 Chapter 5 Internal analyses, 7-S model 12 5.1 Introduction 12 5.2 Structure 12 5.3 Systems 14 5.4 Strategy 14 5.5 Staff 15 5.6 Style 15 5.7 Shared values 15 5.8 Skills 16 5.9 Conclusion 16 Chapter 6 External analyses 17 6.1 Introduction 17 6.2 DESTEP analysis 17 6.3 Demographic 18 6.4 Economic 18 6.5 Social 19 6.6 Technological 19 6.7 Ecological 20 6.8 Political 20 6.9 Conclusion 21 Chapter 7 International competitiveness analysis 22 7.1 Introduction 22 7.2 Porter’s five forces 22 7.3 Conclusion 26 7.4 Dimensions of Porter 27 7.5 Conclusion 29 Chapter 8 SWOT and Confrontation matrix 30 8.1 Introduction 30 8.2 SWOT analysis 30 8.3 Strengths 31 8.4 Weaknesses 32 8.5 Opportunities 33 8.6 Threats 34 8.7 Conclusion 35 8.8 Confrontation matrix 36 8.9 Conclusion 38 Chapter 9 International segmentation market 39 9.1 Introduction 39 9.2 Development of segmentation 39 9.3 Conclusion 41 Chapter 10 Entry and export mode 42 10.1 Introduction 42 10.2 Entry mode 42 10.3 Export mode 43 10.4 Conclusion 43 Chapter 11...
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...strategy+business ISSUE 61 WINTER 2010 The Right to Win Business strategy is at an evolutionary crossroads. It’s time to resolve the long-standing tension between the inherent identity of your organization and the fleeting nature of your competitive advantage. REPRINT 10407 BY CESARE MAINARDI WITH ART KLEINER features strategy & competition 1 toWIN It’s 8 A.M. in the executive conference room of a TheRIGHT by Cesare Mainardi with Art Kleiner Business strategy is at an evolutionary crossroads. It’s time to resolve the longstanding tension between the inherent identity of your organization and the fleeting nature of your competitive advantage. 2 features strategy & competition large global packaged-foods manufacturer (a real company, its name withheld to preserve confidentiality). For the past two months, a team made up of 15 senior people has been exploring options for growth, winnowing them down to three basic strategies. Each is now summed up in a crisp 20-minute presentation. The first option focuses on innovation. The company would rapidly develop and launch many new types of snacks and foods, packaged in new and interesting ways, offering leading-edge nutrition and convenience. Under the second option, the company would get closer to its customers, producing the food people ask for. It could incorporate ideas gathered online into its offerings and provide busy working families with customizable, convenient, and well-balanced meals. The...
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...Femininity in Three Walt Disney Animated Features Bachelor Thesis Bethany Schouten, 3278972 Media en Cultuurwetenschappen Genderstudies Supervisor: Domitilla Olivieri May 31st, 2011 “Behind the Fair Façade” Representations of Femininity in Three Walt Disney Animated Features Bachelor thesis by Bethany Schouten, 3278972 Index Introduction 3 Methodological and theoretical Framework 4 Corpus 9 The Research: SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS 11 The Research: THE LITTLE MERMAID 18 The Research: THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG 24 Findings and Interpretation 31 Identity Formation 35 Conclusion 38 Literature 41 Media 43 Introduction The Walt Disney Company’s cultural products have been a great influence on popular culture since the 1930s and an inspiration for generations all over the world ever since. For many, including myself, the Princes, Princesses and fantastical creatures of Disney’s animated fairy tales have become symbols of their youth. Seeing the films gives rise to a feeling of nostalgia, they become a memento of one’s childhood world. But what kind of world is this? What kind of realities do Disney’s fantastical representations construct? In my thesis, I will analyze a specific element of Disney films: gender roles constructed through the representation of femininity in their animated features. I will study how this representation...
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...Wang han, Wang Yian, Yang Tong 2015/12/10 Catalog 1. Abstract ......................................................................................................................................... 3 2. Background ................................................................................................................................... 3 2.1 Background of the apple company ...................................................................................... 3 2.1.1. Steve jobs ................................................................................................................ 4 2.1.2. Products -- iPhone ................................................................................................... 4 2.2 The analyses of apple’s porter 5 forces ............................................................................... 6 2.2.1. Competitive Rivalry or Competition with Apple .................................................... 7 2.2.2. Bargaining Power of Apple’s Customers/Buyers .................................................... 7 2.2.3. Bargaining Power of Apple’s Suppliers .................................................................. 8 2.2.4. Threat of Substitutes or Substitution ....................................................................... 8 2.2.5. Threat of New Entrants or New Entry..................................................................... 9 2.3The PESTEL analysis of apple..............................................
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...airline companies in the world, but it suffered from the danger of bankruptcy in 1991. However, the flexible strategic change programs made it survive. Thus, the implementation and effects of those programs are obviously attractive and deserve further study. Moreover, current business environment is full of opportunities and challenges, which poses Lufthansa to identify relative challenges and adopt some reaction to respond. Therefore, this report will discuss two parts: one is strategic change programs and the other is current strategic challenges for Lufthansa. In the first part, it will evaluate the strategic change programs which Lufthansa applied and also cover the effects of leadership and politics. The second part of this report will analyse the strategic challenges for Lufthansa based on current and future business environment. I. Strategic changes for Lufthansa Strategy is argued to be a useful tool for an organization to achieve its target in the long term, and its contribution to development of the organization is evident. However, it is impossible to use one strategy to respond the changeable demand due to the dynamic external environment, so the organization should change their strategies to adapt the market. 1. Strategic change program According to Balogun and Hailey (1999), reconstruction is one of strategic changes for organizations, and it “may be rapid and could involve a good deal of upheaval in an organization” (Johnson and Kevan, 2002:537)....
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