| Curricular Competency |
Develop and refine ideas and technical skills to improve the quality of performance pieces |
Drama 9 |
Reasoning and reflecting |
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| Curricular Competency |
Describe, interpret, and evaluate how performers and playwrights use dramatic structures, elements, and techniques to create and communicate ideas |
Drama 9 |
Reasoning and reflecting |
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| Curricular Competency |
Take creative risks to experience and express thoughts, emotions, and meaning |
Drama 9 |
Exploring and creating |
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| Curricular Competency |
Demonstrate an understanding and appreciation of personal, social, cultural, historical, and environmental in relation to drama |
Drama 9 |
Exploring and creating |
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| Curricular Competency |
Explore relationships between identity, place, culture, society, and belonging through dramatic experiences |
Drama 9 |
Exploring and creating |
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| Curricular Competency |
Create dramatic works both collaboratively and as an individual, using ideas inspired by imagination, inquiry, and purposeful play |
Drama 9 |
Exploring and creating |
| Keyword: purposeful play |
Elaboration: learning that uses real-life and/or imaginary situations to engage and challenge learners’ thinking. Through planned purposeful play, students express their natural curiosity while exploring the world around them. It also provides a means for high-level reasoning and problem solving in a variety of ways |
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| Curricular Competency |
Select and combine dramatic elements and principles to intentionally create a particular mood, effect, and meaning |
Drama 9 |
Exploring and creating |
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| Big Ideas |
Writers write for authentic audiences and real-world purposes. |
Creative Writing 11 |
No CCG |
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| Big Ideas |
Creative writers are observant of the world. |
Creative Writing 11 |
No CCG |
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| Big Ideas |
Creative writers take risks and persevere. |
Creative Writing 11 |
No CCG |
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| Big Ideas |
Language shapes ideas and influences others. |
Creative Writing 11 |
No CCG |
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| Big Ideas |
Texts are socially, culturally, geographically, and historically constructed. |
Creative Writing 11 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: Texts |
Elaboration: “Text” and “texts” are generic terms referring to all forms of oral, written, visual, or digital communication:Oral texts include speeches, poems, plays, oral stories, and songs.Written texts include novels, articles, and short stories.Visual texts include posters, photographs, and other images.Digital texts include electronic forms of all of the above.Oral, written, and visual elements can be combined (e.g., in dramatic presentations, graphic novels, films, web pages, advertisements). |
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| Big Ideas |
The exploration of text and story deepens our understanding of diverse, complex ideas about identity, others, and the world. |
Creative Writing 11 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: text |
Elaboration: “Text” and “texts” are generic terms referring to all forms of oral, written, visual, or digital communication:Oral texts include speeches, poems, plays, oral stories, and songs.Written texts include novels, articles, and short stories.Visual texts include posters, photographs, and other images.Digital texts include electronic forms of all of the above.Oral, written, and visual elements can be combined (e.g., in dramatic presentations, graphic novels, films, web pages, advertisements). |
| Keyword: story |
Elaboration: narrative texts, whether real or imagined, that teach us about human nature, motivation, behaviour, and experience, and often reflect a personal journey or strengthen a sense of identity. They may also be considered the embodiment of collective wisdom. Stories can be oral, written, or visual and used to instruct, inspire, and entertain listeners and readers. |
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| Content |
Language features, structures, and conventions- elements of style
- exploration of voice
- usage and conventions
- literary elements and devices
- literal and inferential meaning
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Creative Writing 11 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: elements of style |
Elaboration: stylistic choices that make a specific writer what make one “writer” distinguishable from others, including diction, vocabulary, sentence structure, and tone |
| Keyword: voice |
Elaboration: point of viewhumour, irony, satire, witperspective (e.g., persona) |
| Keyword: usage |
Elaboration: avoiding common usage errors (e.g., double negatives, mixed metaphors, malapropisms, and word misuse) |
| Keyword: conventions |
Elaboration: common practices of standard punctuation, capitalization, quoting, and Canadian spelling |
| Keyword: literary elements and devices |
Elaboration: Texts use various literary devices, including figurative language, according to purpose and audience. |
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| Content |
Strategies and processes- reading strategies
- oral language strategies
- metacognitive strategies
- writing processes
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Creative Writing 11 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: reading strategies |
Elaboration: There are many strategies that readers use when making sense of text. Students consider what strategies they need to use to “unpack” text. They employ strategies with increasing independence depending on the purpose, text, and context. Strategies include but may not be limited to predicting, inferring, questioning, paraphrasing, using context clues, using text features, visualizing, making connections, summarizing, identifying big ideas, synthesizing, and reflecting. |
| Keyword: oral language strategies |
Elaboration: includes speaking with expression, connecting to listeners, asking questions to clarify, listening for specifics, summarizing, paraphrasing |
| Keyword: metacognitive strategies |
Elaboration: thinking about one’s own thinking, and reflecting on one’s processes and determining strengths and challengesStudents employ metacognitive strategies to gain increasing independence in learning. |
| Keyword: writing processes |
Elaboration: There are various writing processes depending on context. These may include determining audience and purpose, generating or gathering ideas, free-writing, making notes, drafting, revising, and/or editing. Writers often have very personalized processes when writing. Writing is an iterative process. |
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