| Curricular Competency |
Transform ideas and information to create original texts, using various genres, forms, structures, and styles |
New Media 11 |
Create and communicate (writing, speaking, representing) |
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| Curricular Competency |
Use acknowledgements and citations to recognize intellectual property rights |
New Media 11 |
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 |
New Media 11 |
Create and communicate (writing, speaking, representing) |
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| Curricular Competency |
Reflect on, assess, and refine texts to improve clarity, effectiveness, and impact according to purpose, audience, and message |
New Media 11 |
Create and communicate (writing, speaking, representing) |
| Keyword: refine texts to improve clarity, effectiveness, and impact |
Elaboration: creatively and critically manipulating language for a desired effectconsciously and purposefully making intentional, stylistic choices, such as using sentence fragments or inverted syntax for emphasis or impactusing techniques such as adjusting diction and form according to audience needs and preferences, using verbs effectively, using repetition and substitution for effect, maintaining parallelism, adding modifiers, varying sentence types |
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| Curricular Competency |
Express and support an opinion with evidence |
New Media 11 |
Create and communicate (writing, speaking, representing) |
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| Curricular Competency |
Use digital and multimedia writing and design processes to plan, develop, and create engaging and meaningful literary, imaginative, and informational texts for a variety of purposes and audiences |
New Media 11 |
Create and communicate (writing, speaking, representing) |
| Keyword: multimedia writing and design processes |
Elaboration: such as prewriting, planning, drafting, storyboarding; revising, editing, and publishing; using sketch, shade, and colour; and selecting appropriate format and layout |
| Keyword: audiences |
Elaboration: Students expand their understanding of the range of real-world audiences. These can include children, peers, community members, professionals, and local and globally connected digital conversations. |
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| Curricular Competency |
Select and apply an appropriate oral language format for an intended purpose |
New Media 11 |
Create and communicate (writing, speaking, representing) |
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| Curricular Competency |
Select and use a variety of media appropriate to purpose, audience, and context |
New Media 11 |
Create and communicate (writing, speaking, representing) |
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| Curricular Competency |
Demonstrate speaking and listening skills in a variety of formal and informal contexts for a range of purposes |
New Media 11 |
Create and communicate (writing, speaking, representing) |
| Keyword: speaking |
Elaboration: Strategies may include conscious use of emotion, volume, pace, pause, inflection, and emphasis. |
| Keyword: listening skills |
Elaboration: Strategies may include receptive body language, eye contact, paraphrasing and building on others’ ideas, and disagreeing respectfully. |
| Keyword: contexts |
Elaboration: may include debate, presentation, speech, small- and large-group discussion, interviewing, performance, school- and community-based forums |
| Keyword: a range of purposes |
Elaboration: such as to inquire, to explore, to inform, to interpret, to explain, to take a position, to evaluate, to problem solve, to entertain |
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| Curricular Competency |
Respond to text in personal, creative, and critical ways |
New Media 11 |
Create and communicate (writing, speaking, representing) |
| 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). |
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| Curricular Competency |
Respectfully exchange ideas and viewpoints from diverse perspectives to build shared understandings and extend thinking |
New Media 11 |
Create and communicate (writing, speaking, representing) |
| Keyword: Respectfully exchange ideas and viewpoints |
Elaboration: using active listening skills and receptive body language, paraphrasing and building on others’ ideas, disagreeing respectfully, extending thinking (e.g., shifting, changing) to broader contexts (social media, digital environments), collaborating in large and small groups |
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| Curricular Competency |
Identify bias, contradictions, distortions, and omissions |
New Media 11 |
Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing) |
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| Curricular Competency |
Evaluate how literary elements and new media techniques and devices reflect different purposes and audiences |
New Media 11 |
Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing) |
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| Curricular Competency |
Construct meaningful personal connections between self, text, and world |
New Media 11 |
Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing) |
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| Curricular Competency |
Recognize how language constructs personal, social, and cultural identities |
New Media 11 |
Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing) |
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