| Curricular Competency |
Identify bias, contradictions, and distortions |
Literary Studies 10 |
Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing) |
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| Curricular Competency |
Construct meaningful personal connections between self, text, and world |
Literary Studies 10 |
Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing) |
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| Curricular Competency |
Explore how language constructs personal and cultural identities |
Literary Studies 10 |
Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing) |
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| Curricular Competency |
Recognize personal, social, and cultural contexts, as well as values and perspectives in texts |
Literary Studies 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 |
Literary Studies 10 |
Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing) |
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| Curricular Competency |
Recognize and appreciate how different forms, formats, structures, and features of texts enhance and shape meaning and impact |
Literary Studies 10 |
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 narratives; journals; procedural, expository, and explanatory documents; news articles; e-mails; blogs; advertisements; poetry; novels; and letters. |
| 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 (e.g., cause/effect, compare/contrast, order of importance, chronological sequence, problem/solution, circular or cyclical) |
| Keyword: features of texts |
Elaboration: elements of the text that are not considered the main body, including:navigational aids (e.g., table of contents, index, glossary, bibliography, hyperlinks, titles, headings and subheadings, prologue and epilogue, preface or foreword, captions, footnotes and endnotes)illustrations (e.g., inlays, sidebars, photographs, graphs, charts, timelines, maps) |
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| Curricular Competency |
Apply appropriate strategies to comprehend written, oral, visual, and multimodal texts |
Literary Studies 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. |
| 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, graphic novel, postmodern picture book, close-captioned film) |
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| Curricular Competency |
Explore the relevance, accuracy, and reliability of texts |
Literary Studies 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 |
Literary Studies 10 |
Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing) |
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| Curricular Competency |
Recognize and appreciate the influence of land/place in First Peoples and other Canadian texts |
Literary Studies 10 |
Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing) |
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| Curricular Competency |
Recognize and appreciate the diversity within and across First Peoples societies as represented in texts |
Literary Studies 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 |
Literary Studies 10 |
Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing) |
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| Curricular Competency |
Read for enjoyment and to achieve personal goals |
Literary Studies 10 |
Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing) |
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| Big Ideas |
Engagement with writing processes can support creativity and enhance clarity of expression. |
Composition 10 |
No CCG |
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| Big Ideas |
Language shapes ideas and influences others. |
Composition 10 |
No CCG |
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