MB ELA 40S case studies
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Manitoba English Language Arts 40S is a Grade 12 senior-level English course within Manitoba's Kindergarten to Grade 12 school system. The province's Education and Early Childhood Learning department publishes curriculum frameworks for Kindergarten to Grade 12, and 40S denotes the senior (Grade 12) level of a course; students typically take ELA 40S to meet Grade 12 English requirements and to build reading, writing, and critical-thinking skills used in post-secondary study and the workforce. The MB ELA 40S case studies are 5 cases and about 2,049 words.
1The Scholarship Essay and the Word Limit
A Grade 12 student, Mara, has drafted a 640-word personal essay for a $2,000 scholarship. The application form states a firm 500-word maximum and warns that over-length entries are disqualified without review.
394 words, about 2 min2Two Sources, One Claim
A student is writing a research paper on whether school start times should be delayed for teenagers. She has two sources.
422 words, about 2 min3The Unreliable Narrator's Confession
Students are analyzing a short story in which a first-person narrator, a retired accountant named Hollis, describes the night his business partner drowned. Hollis says he 'was nowhere near the river' and that he 'slept soundly until morning.' Later in the same story, he mentions that he 'always walked the river path when he could not sleep' and that on the night in question he 'did not sleep at all.' The story never has another character contradict him, and the ending simply says he 'felt lighter' after telling the story to a stranger.
387 words, about 2 min4Editing for Concision Under a Deadline
A student is editing a 300-word news brief for the school paper. The editor requires 220 words maximum and has flagged three passages.
434 words, about 2 min5The Group Presentation and the Silent Member
Four students must deliver a 10-minute group presentation worth 20% of the course grade. The group has met three times.
412 words, about 2 min