| Curricular Competency |
Identify bias, contradictions, and distortions |
Writing 10 |
Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing) |
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| Curricular Competency |
Examine how literary elements, techniques, and devices enhance and shape meaning and impact |
Writing 10 |
Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing) |
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| Curricular Competency |
Explore how language reflects personal and cultural identities |
Writing 10 |
Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing) |
| Keyword: how language reflects personal and cultural identities |
Elaboration: A person’s sense of identity is a product of linguistic factors or constructs, including oral tradition, story, recorded history, and social media; voice; cultural aspects; literacy history; and linguistic background (English as first or additional language). |
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| Curricular Competency |
Recognize and appreciate how different forms, structures, and features of texts reflect diverse purposes, audiences, and messages |
Writing 10 |
Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing) |
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| Curricular Competency |
Think critically, creatively, and reflectively to explore ideas within, between, and beyond texts |
Writing 10 |
Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing) |
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| Curricular Competency |
Access information for diverse purposes and from a variety of sources to inform writing |
Writing 10 |
Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing) |
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| Curricular Competency |
Apply appropriate strategies in a variety of contexts to guide inquiry, extend thinking, and comprehend texts |
Writing 10 |
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. |
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| Curricular Competency |
Construct meaningful personal connections between self, text, and world |
Writing 10 |
Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing) |
| Keyword: meaningful personal connections between self, text, and world |
Elaboration: Writing can be a reflective and reflexive process, connecting individuals to others. |
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| Curricular Competency |
Recognize and appreciate the diversity within and across First Peoples societies as represented in texts |
Writing 10 |
Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing) |
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| Curricular Competency |
Recognize and appreciate the role of story, narrative, and oral tradition in expressing First Peoples perspectives, values, beliefs, and points of view |
Writing 10 |
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 10 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: Digital citizens |
Elaboration: people who use information technology (IT) to engage in society, politics, and government participationpeople who use the Internet regularly and effectively to interact with private and public organizations |
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| Big Ideas |
Self-representation through authentic First Peoples text is a means to foster justice. |
New Media 10 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: authentic First Peoples |
Elaboration: a written, oral, visual, digital, or multimodal text that:presents authentic First Peoples voices (i.e., historical or contemporary texts created by First Peoples, or through the substantial contributions of First Peoples)depicts themes and issues important to First Peoples cultures (e.g., loss of identity and affirmation of identity, tradition, healing, role of family, importance of Elders, connection to the land, the nature and place of spirituality as an aspect of wisdom, the relationships between individual and community, the importance of oral tradition, the experience of colonization and decolonization)incorporates First Peoples storytelling techniques and features as applicable (e.g., circular structure, repetition, weaving in of spirituality, humour)includes respectful portrayals or representation of First Peoples and their traditions and beliefs |
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| Big Ideas |
Texts are socially, culturally, geographically, and historically constructed. |
New Media 10 |
No CCG |
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| Big Ideas |
The exploration of text and story deepens understanding of one’s identity, others, and the world. |
New Media 10 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: text |
Elaboration: any type of oral, written, visual, or digital expression or communication:Visual texts include gestural and spatial components (as in dance) as well as images (some examples are posters, photographs, paintings, carvings, poles, textiles, regalia, and masks).Digital texts include electronic forms of oral, written, and visual expression.Multimodal texts include any combination of oral, written, visual, and/or digital elements and can be delivered via different media or technologies (some examples are dramatic presentations, web pages, music videos, online presentations, graphic novels, and close-captioned films). |
| Keyword: story |
Elaboration: a narrative text that shares ideas about human nature, motivation, behaviour, and experience. Stories can record history, reflect a personal journey, or explore identity. Stories can be oral, written, or visual, and used to instruct, inspire, and/or entertain listeners and readers. |
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| Content |
Language features, structures, and conventions- elements of style
- usage and conventions
- citations and acknowledgements
- literary elements and devices
- media elements and devices
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New Media 10 |
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 in capitalization, quoting, and spelling of Canadian and First Peoples words |
| Keyword: acknowledgements |
Elaboration: formal acknowledgements of another person’s work, idea, or intellectual property |
| Keyword: literary elements and devices |
Elaboration: Texts use various literary devices, including figurative language, according to purpose and audience. |
| Keyword: media elements and devices |
Elaboration: In addition to using all the established elements and devices associated with other written, spoken, and representational forms of expression, new media works have unique stylistic features (e.g., site architecture, web page layout and design, interactivity, streamed and rendered content) that contribute to appeal, ease of use, and ability to present sophisticated material. |
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