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Curricular Competency

Use the conventions of Canadian spelling, grammar, and punctuation proficiently and as appropriate to the context

Composition 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

Composition 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

Composition 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

Composition 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

Composition 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: 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

Composition 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

Composition 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

Composition 11