| Big Ideas |
Creative writers take risks and persevere. |
Creative Writing 12 |
No CCG |
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| Big Ideas |
Language shapes ideas and influences others. |
Creative Writing 12 |
No CCG |
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| Big Ideas |
Texts are socially, culturally, geographically, and historically constructed. |
Creative Writing 12 |
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 12 |
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 12 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: elements of style |
Elaboration: stylistic choices that make a specific writer distinguishable from others, including diction, vocabulary, sentence structure, 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 12 |
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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| Content |
Text features and structures- form, function, and genre of texts
- elements of visual/graphic texts
- narrative structures found in First Peoples texts
- protocols related to the ownership of First Peoples oral texts
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Creative Writing 12 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: Text features |
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/text boxes. |
| Keyword: structures |
Elaboration: how text is organized |
| Keyword: function |
Elaboration: the intended purpose of a text |
| Keyword: narrative structures found in First Peoples texts |
Elaboration: for example, circular, iterative, cyclical |
| Keyword: protocols related to the ownership of First Peoples oral texts |
Elaboration: First Peoples stories often have protocols for when and where they can be shared, who owns them, and who can share them. |
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| Content |
Text forms and genres |
Creative Writing 12 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: forms |
Elaboration: Within a type of communication, the writer, speaker, or designer chooses a form based on the purpose of the piece. Common written forms include narrative, journal, procedural, expository, explanatory, news article, e-mail, blog, advertisements, poetry, novel, and letter. |
| Keyword: genres |
Elaboration: literary or thematic categories (e.g., adventure, fable, fairy tale, fantasy, folklore, historical, horror, legend, mystery, mythology, picture book, science fiction, biography, essay, journalism, manual, memoir, personal narrative, speech) |
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| Curricular Competency |
Use the writers’ practices to exemplify skills characteristic of writers |
Creative Writing 12 |
Create and communicate (writing, speaking, representing) |
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| Curricular Competency |
Use figurative as well as literal language |
Creative Writing 12 |
Create and communicate (writing, speaking, representing) |
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| Curricular Competency |
Manipulate language purposefully |
Creative Writing 12 |
Create and communicate (writing, speaking, representing) |
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| Curricular Competency |
Transform ideas and information to create original texts, using various genres, forms, structures, and styles |
Creative Writing 12 |
Create and communicate (writing, speaking, representing) |
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| Curricular Competency |
Use acknowledgements and citations to recognize intellectual property rights |
Creative Writing 12 |
Create and communicate (writing, speaking, representing) |
| Keyword: acknowledgements and citations |
Elaboration: includes citing sources in appropriate ways to understand and avoid plagiarism and understanding protocols that guide use of First Peoples oral texts and other knowledge |
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| Curricular Competency |
Use the conventions of Canadian spelling, grammar, and punctuation proficiently and as appropriate to the context |
Creative Writing 12 |
Create and communicate (writing, speaking, representing) |
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| Curricular Competency |
Assess and refine texts to improve clarity, effectiveness, and impact |
Creative Writing 12 |
Create and communicate (writing, speaking, representing) |
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