| Curricular Competency |
Discern nuances in the meanings of words, considering social, political, historical, and literary contexts |
Literary Studies 12 |
Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing) |
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| Curricular Competency |
Recognize an increasing range of text structures and understand how they contribute to meaning |
Literary Studies 12 |
Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing) |
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| Curricular Competency |
Analyze how text structures, literary elements, techniques, and devices enhance and shape meaning and impact |
Literary Studies 12 |
Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing) |
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| Curricular Competency |
Construct meaningful personal connections between self, text, and world |
Literary Studies 12 |
Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing) |
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| Curricular Competency |
Appreciate and understand how language constructs personal, social, and cultural identities |
Literary Studies 12 |
Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing) |
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| Curricular Competency |
Recognize and analyze personal, social, cultural contexts, values, and perspectives in texts, including culture, gender, sexual orientation, and socio-economic status |
Literary Studies 12 |
Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing) |
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| Curricular Competency |
Think critically, creatively, and reflectively to analyze ideas within, between, and beyond texts |
Literary Studies 12 |
Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing) |
| Keyword: reflectively |
Elaboration: includes metacognitive strategies such as identifying strengths and areas of focus, setting goals, making plans for improvement, and self-assessment |
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| Curricular Competency |
Understand and appreciate how different forms, formats, structures, and features of texts reflect a variety of purposes, audiences, and messages |
Literary Studies 12 |
Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing) |
| Keyword: features of texts |
Elaboration: elements of the text that are not considered the main body. These may include typography (bold, italic, underlined), font style, guide words, key words, titles, diagrams, captions, labels, maps, charts, illustrations, tables, photographs, and sidebars/textboxes. |
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| Curricular Competency |
Select and apply appropriate strategies in a variety of contexts to comprehend written, oral, visual, and multimodal texts, to guide inquiry, and to transform thinking |
Literary Studies 12 |
Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing) |
| Keyword: strategies |
Elaboration: Strategies used will depend on purpose and context. These may include making predictions, asking questions, paraphrasing, forming images, making inferences, determining importance, identifying themes, and drawing conclusions. |
| Keyword: variety of contexts |
Elaboration: Distinguish between independent and collaborative settings, and formal and informal situations. |
| Keyword: multimodal texts |
Elaboration: texts that combine two or more systems, such as linguistic, visual, audio, gestural, and spatial, and that can be delivered via a variety of media or technologies (e.g., music video, digital presentation tools, graphic novel, closed-captioned film). |
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| Curricular Competency |
Evaluate the relevance, accuracy, and reliability of texts |
Literary Studies 12 |
Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing) |
| Keyword: relevance |
Elaboration: Consider the extent to which material has credibility, currency, and significance for the purpose, and whether it resonates with personal experience. |
| Keyword: reliability |
Elaboration: Consider point of view, bias, propaganda, and voices left out, omitted, or misrepresented. |
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| Curricular Competency |
Use information for diverse purposes and from a variety of sources |
Literary Studies 12 |
Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing) |
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| Curricular Competency |
Understand the influence of land/place in First Peoples and other Canadian texts |
Literary Studies 12 |
Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing) |
| Keyword: land/place |
Elaboration: refers to the land and other aspects of physical environment on which people interact to learn, create memory, reflect on history, connect with culture, and establish identity |
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| Curricular Competency |
Understand the diversity within and across First Peoples societies as represented in texts |
Literary Studies 12 |
Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing) |
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| Curricular Competency |
Understand and appreciate the role of story, narrative, and oral tradition in expressing First Peoples perspectives, values, beliefs, and points of view |
Literary Studies 12 |
Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing) |
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| Curricular Competency |
Read for enjoyment and to achieve personal goals |
Literary Studies 12 |
Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing) |
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