| Curricular Competency |
Apply appropriate strategies to comprehend written, oral, visual, and multimodal texts |
Spoken Language 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 |
Access information for diverse purposes and from a variety of sources to inform writing |
Spoken Language 10 |
Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing) |
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| Curricular Competency |
Recognize and appreciate the diversity among First Peoples cultures, as represented in oral and other texts |
Spoken Language 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 |
Spoken Language 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: takes personal responsibility and behaves ethically and cautiously when using technology |
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| Big Ideas |
Language shapes ideas and influences others. |
New Media 10 |
No CCG |
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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 |
People understand text differently depending on their world views and perspectives. |
New Media 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. |
New Media 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- elements of style
- usage and conventions
- literary techniques and devices
- citation techniques
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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, capitalization, quoting, and Canadian spelling |
| Keyword: literary techniques 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
- new media design processes
- multimedia presentation processes
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New Media 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 features and structures- interactivity
- features of multimodal texts
- narrative structures found in First Peoples texts
- protocols related to ownership of First Peoples oral texts
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New Media 10 |
No CCG |
| 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: interactivity |
Elaboration: the process of two or more people working together and influencing each other, including the ability of a user to interact with the digital media, or with a computer to respond to user input |
| Keyword: narrative structures found in First Peoples texts |
Elaboration: (e.g., circular, iterative, cyclical) |
| Keyword: protocols related to ownership of First Peoples oral texts |
Elaboration: First Peoples stories often have protocols for when and where they can be shared, who owns them, and who can share them. |
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| Content |
Text forms and genres |
New Media 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) |
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| Curricular Competency |
Transform ideas and information to create original texts |
New Media 10 |
Create and communicate (writing, speaking, representing) |
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| Curricular Competency |
Use acknowledgements and citations to recognize intellectual property rights |
New Media 10 |
Create and communicate (writing, speaking, representing) |
| Keyword: acknowledgements and citations |
Elaboration: includes citing sources in appropriate ways to understand and avoid plagiarism and understanding protocols that guide use of First Peoples oral texts and other knowledge |
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