| Curricular Competency |
Recognize the impact of personal, social, and cultural identities in First Peoples texts |
Literary Studies 10 |
Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing) |
| Keyword: the impact of personal, social, and cultural identities in First Peoples texts |
Elaboration: The complexities of First Peoples personal, social, and cultural identities are often explored in First Peoples texts. |
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| Curricular Competency |
Recognize and appreciate how different forms, structures, and features of texts reflect diverse purposes, audiences, and messages |
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 |
Construct meaningful personal connections between self, text, and world |
Literary Studies 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 |
Apply appropriate strategies in a variety of contexts to guide inquiry, extend thinking, and comprehend 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. |
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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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| Big Ideas |
Voice is powerful and evocative. |
Spoken Language 10 |
No CCG |
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| Big Ideas |
Language shapes ideas and influences others. |
Spoken Language 10 |
No CCG |
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| Big Ideas |
Texts are socially, culturally, geographically, and historically constructed. |
Spoken Language 10 |
No CCG |
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| Big Ideas |
People understand text differently depending on their world views and perspectives. |
Spoken Language 10 |
No CCG |
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| Big Ideas |
The exploration of text and story deepens our understanding of diverse, complex ideas about identity, others, and the world. |
Spoken Language 10 |
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). |
| Keyword: story |
Elaboration: narrative texts, whether real or imagined, that teach us about human nature, motivation, behaviour, and experience, and often reflect a personal journey or strengthen a sense of identity. They may also be considered the embodiment of collective wisdom. Stories can be oral, written, or visual and used to instruct, inspire, and entertain listeners and readers. |
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| Content |
Language features, structures, and conventions- features of oral language
- elements of style
- rhetorical devices
- persuasive techniques
- usage and conventions
- literary elements and devices
- literal and figurative meaning
- citation techniques
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Spoken Language 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, capitalization, quoting, and Canadian spelling |
| Keyword: literary elements and devices |
Elaboration: Texts use various literary devices, including figurative language, according to purpose and audience. |
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| Content |
Strategies and processes- reading strategies
- oral language strategies
- metacognitive strategies
- writing processes
- presentation techniques
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Spoken Language 10 |
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 our own thinking, and reflecting on our 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. |
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| Content |
Text forms and text genres, including creative spoken forms- Text features and structures
- oral text features and structures
- narrative structures found in First Peoples texts
- First Peoples oral traditions and oral texts
- protocols related to ownership of First Peoples oral texts
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Spoken Language 10 |
No CCG |
| 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) |
| Keyword: creative spoken forms |
Elaboration: spoken word/slam poetryrecitationoral storytellingreaders’ theatredebateradio/podcasts/social mediapresentationspublic service announcements (PSAs) |
| Keyword: Text features |
Elaboration: elements of the text that are not considered the main body. These may include typography (bold, italics, underlined font), font style, guide words, key words, titles, diagrams, captions, labels, maps, charts, illustrations, tables, photographs, and sidebars/text boxes. |
| Keyword: narrative structures found in First Peoples texts |
Elaboration: (e.g., circular, iterative, cyclical) |
| Keyword: First Peoples oral traditions |
Elaboration: Oral traditions are the means by which cultural transmission occurs over generations other than through written records. Among First Peoples, oral traditions may consist of told stories, songs, and/or other types of distilled wisdom or information, often complemented by dance or various forms of visual representation such as carvings or masks. In addition to expressing spiritual and emotional truth (e.g., via symbol and metaphor), these traditions provide a record of literal truth (e.g., regarding events and/or situations). They were integrated into every facet of life and were the basis of First Peoples education systems. They continue to endure in contemporary contexts. In Canadian law, First Peoples oral history is valid evidence of ownership of the land. The Supreme Court of Canada recognizes that First Peoples oral histories are as important as written documents in considering legal issues. |
| Keyword: protocols related to ownership of First Peoples oral texts |
Elaboration: First Peoples stories often have protocols (when and where they can be shared, who owns them, who can share them). |
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