cc_EFP: Literary Studies + Writing_Grade 11_Assess and refine texts to improve clarity, effectiveness, and impact

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Grade
Curricular Competency
Assess and refine texts to improve clarity, effectiveness, and impact
Elaboration
  • creatively and critically manipulating language for a desired effect
  • consciously and purposefully making intentional stylistic choices (e.g., using sentence fragments or inverted syntax for emphasis or impact)
  • using 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
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refine texts to improve clarity, effectiveness, and impact

cc_EFP: Literary Studies + Writing_Grade 11_Use writing and design processes to plan, develop, and create engaging and meaningful texts for a variety of purposes and audiences

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Grade
Curricular Competency
Use writing and design processes to plan, develop, and create engaging and meaningful texts for a variety of purposes and audiences
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.
Students expand their understandings of the range of real-world audiences. These can include children, peers, and community members, as well as technical, academic, and business audiences.
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writing and design processes
audiences

cc_EFP: Literary Studies + Writing_Grade 11_Demonstrate speaking and listening skills in a variety of formal and informal contexts for a range of purposes

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Grade
Curricular Competency
Demonstrate speaking and listening skills in a variety of formal and informal contexts for a range of purposes
Elaboration
  • Strategies associated with speaking skills may include the conscious use of emotion, pauses, inflection, silence, and emphasis according to context.
  • Strategies associated with listening skills may include receptive body language, eye contact, paraphrasing building on others’ ideas, asking clarifying questions, and disagreeing respectfully.
may include to understand, to inquire, to explore, to inform, to interpret, to explain, to take a position, to evaluate, to provoke, to problem solve, and to entertain
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speaking and listening skills
range of purposes

cc_EFP: Literary Studies + Writing_Grade 11_Respectfully exchange ideas and viewpoints from diverse perspectives to build shared understandings and extend thinking

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Grade
Curricular Competency
Respectfully exchange ideas and viewpoints from diverse perspectives to build shared understandings and extend thinking
Elaboration
  • using active listening skills and receptive body language (e.g., paraphrasing and building on others’ ideas)
  • disagreeing respectfully
  • extending thinking (e.g., shifting, changing) to broader contexts (e.g., social media, digital environments)
  • collaborating in large and small groups
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exchange ideas and viewpoints

cc_EFP: Literary Studies + Writing_Grade 11_Understand the influence of land/place in First Peoples texts

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Grade
Curricular Competency
Understand the influence of land/place in First Peoples texts
Elaboration
refers to the land and other aspects of physical environment on which people interact to learn, create memory, reflect on history, connect with culture, and establish identity
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land/place