| Curricular Competency |
Recognize and identify personal, social, and cultural contexts, values, and perspectives in texts, including gender, sexual orientation, and socio-economic factors |
New Media 11 |
Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing) |
| Keyword: personal, social, and cultural contexts, values, and perspectives in texts, including gender, sexual orientation, and socio-economic factors |
Elaboration: Students should be prompted to understand the influence of family, friends, community, education, spirituality/religion, gender identity, age, sexual orientation, land/place, settlement patterns, economic factors, political events (local and beyond), and colonial policies; to understand that authors write from a perspective influenced by such factors; and to understand the relationship between text and context. |
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| Curricular Competency |
Think critically, creatively, and reflectively to explore ideas within, between, and beyond texts |
New Media 11 |
Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing) |
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| Curricular Competency |
Recognize and appreciate how various forms, formats, structures, and features of texts reflect a variety of purposes, audiences, and messages |
New Media 11 |
Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing) |
| 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: formats |
Elaboration: refers to the consideration of format choices including layout, sequencing, spacing, topography, and colour |
| Keyword: structures |
Elaboration: refers to the way the author organizes text |
| 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 |
Recognize the complexities of digital citizenship |
New Media 11 |
Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing) |
| Keyword: digital citizenship |
Elaboration: taking personal responsibility and behaving ethically and cautiously when using technology |
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| Curricular Competency |
Apply appropriate strategies in a variety of contexts to comprehend written, oral, visual, and multimodal texts, to guide inquiry and to extend thinking |
New Media 11 |
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: 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 |
Access information for diverse purposes and from a variety of sources and evaluate its relevance, accuracy, and reliability |
New Media 11 |
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 |
Recognize the influence of land/place in First Peoples and other Canadian texts |
New Media 11 |
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 |
Recognize and understand the diversity within and across First Peoples societies as represented in texts |
New Media 11 |
Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing) |
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| Curricular Competency |
Recognize and understand the role of story, narrative, and oral tradition in expressing First Peoples perspectives, values, beliefs, and points of view |
New Media 11 |
Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing) |
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| Curricular Competency |
Read for enjoyment and to achieve personal goals |
New Media 11 |
Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing) |
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| Big Ideas |
Questioning what we hear, read, and view contributes to our ability to be educated and engaged citizens. |
Literary Studies 11 |
No CCG |
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| Big Ideas |
Language shapes ideas and influences others. |
Literary Studies 11 |
No CCG |
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| Big Ideas |
Texts are socially, culturally, geographically, and historically constructed. |
Literary Studies 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 |
People understand text differently depending on their world views and perspectives. |
Literary Studies 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). |
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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. |
Literary Studies 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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