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Grade
Content Language features, structures, and conventions
  • elements of style
  • usage and conventions
  • citation techniques
  • literary elements and devices
  • literal meaning and inferential meaning
 Literary Studies 11 No CCG
Keyword: elements of style Elaboration: stylistic choices that make a specific writer distinguishable from others, including diction, vocabulary, sentence structure, and tone
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.
Content Strategies and processes
  • reading strategies
  • oral language strategies
  • metacognitive strategies
  • writing processes
  • design processes
 Literary Studies 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.
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
Literary Studies 11 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: refers to the way the author organizes text
Keyword: form 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: function Elaboration: the intended purpose of a text
Keyword: genre 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)
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).
Content Text forms and genres Literary Studies 11 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)
Curricular Competency Transform ideas and information to create original texts, using various genres, forms, structures, and styles Literary Studies 11 Create and communicate (writing, speaking, representing)
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Curricular Competency Use acknowledgements and citations to recognize intellectual property rights Literary Studies 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
Curricular Competency Use the conventions of Canadian spelling, grammar, and punctuation proficiently and as appropriate to the context Literary Studies 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 Literary Studies 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
Curricular Competency Express and support an opinion with evidence Literary Studies 11 Create and communicate (writing, speaking, representing)
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Curricular Competency Use writing and design processes to plan, develop, and create engaging and meaningful texts for a variety of purposes and audiences Literary Studies 11 Create and communicate (writing, speaking, representing)
Keyword: writing and design processes Elaboration: There are various writing and/or design processes depending on context, and these may include determining audience and purpose, generating or gathering ideas, free-writing, making notes, drafting, revising and/or editing, 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
Curricular Competency Demonstrate speaking and listening skills in a variety of formal and informal contexts for a range of purposes Literary Studies 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: 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
Curricular Competency Respond to text in personal, creative, and critical ways Literary Studies 11 Create and communicate (writing, speaking, representing)
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Curricular Competency Respectfully exchange ideas and viewpoints from diverse perspectives to build shared understandings and extend thinking Literary Studies 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
Curricular Competency Identify bias, contradictions, distortions, and omissions Literary Studies 11 Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing)
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Curricular Competency Discern nuances in the meanings of words, considering social, political, historical, and literary contexts Literary Studies 11 Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing)
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