| Curricular Competency |
Appreciate and understand how language constructs personal, social, and cultural identities |
Spoken Language 12 |
Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing) |
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| Curricular Competency |
Identify and understand the role of personal, social, and cultural contexts, values, and perspectives in texts |
Spoken Language 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 |
Spoken Language 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 |
Spoken Language 12 |
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 |
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 |
Spoken Language 12 |
Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing) |
| 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 different media or technologies (e.g., spoken word/slam poetry, recitation, oral storytelling, readers’ theatre, debate, radio/podcast/social media, YouTube, interviews, voice-overs) |
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| Curricular Competency |
Evaluate the relevance, accuracy, and reliability of texts |
Spoken Language 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 |
Spoken Language 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 |
Spoken Language 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 |
Spoken Language 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 |
Spoken Language 12 |
Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing) |
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| Curricular Competency |
Read for enjoyment and to achieve personal goals |
Spoken Language 12 |
Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing) |
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| Big Ideas |
Digital citizens have rights and responsibilities in an increasingly globalized society. |
New Media 12 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: Digital citizens |
Elaboration: involves taking personal responsibility and behaving ethically and cautiously when using technology. |
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| Big Ideas |
Language shapes ideas and influences others. |
New Media 12 |
No CCG |
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| Big Ideas |
Texts are socially, culturally, geographically, and historically constructed. |
New Media 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 |
People understand text differently depending on their worldviews and perspectives. |
New Media 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). |
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