Building Student Success - B.C. Curriculum

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Concept/Content

Language features, structures, and conventions

elements of style
exploration of voice
usage and conventions
literary elements and devices
literal and inferential meaning

Elaboration

stylistic choices that make a specific writer what make one “writer” distinguishable from others, including diction, vocabulary, sentence structure, and tone

point of view
humour, irony, satire, wit
perspective (e.g., persona)

avoiding common usage errors (e.g., double negatives, mixed metaphors, malapropisms, and word misuse)

common practices of standard punctuation, capitalization, quoting, and Canadian spelling

Texts use various literary devices, including figurative language, according to purpose and audience.

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elements of style

voice

usage

conventions

literary elements and devices

c/c_Creative Writing_Grade 11

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Concept/Content

Strategies and processes

reading strategies
oral language strategies
metacognitive strategies
writing processes

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.

includes speaking with expression, connecting to listeners, asking questions to clarify, listening for specifics, summarizing, paraphrasing

thinking about one’s own thinking, and reflecting on one’s processes and determining strengths and challenges
Students employ metacognitive strategies to gain increasing independence in learning.

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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reading strategies

oral language strategies

metacognitive strategies

writing processes

c/c_Creative Writing_Grade 11

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Grade

Concept/Content

Text features and structures

form, function, and genre of texts
elements of visual/graphic texts
narrative structures found in First Peoples texts
protocols related to the ownership of First Peoples oral texts

Elaboration

elements of the text that are not considered the main body. These may include typography (bold, italic, underlined), font style, guide words, key words, titles, diagrams, captions, labels, maps, charts, illustrations, tables, photographs, and sidebars/text boxes

refers to the way the author organizes text

Within a type of communication, the writer, speaker, or designer chooses a form based on the purpose of the piece. Common written forms include narrative, journal, procedural, expository, explanatory, news article, e-mail, blog, advertisements, poetry, novel, and letter.

the intended purpose of a text

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)

for example, circular, iterative, cyclical

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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Text features

structures

form

function

genre

narrative structures found in First Peoples texts

protocols related to the ownership of First Peoples oral texts

c/c_Creative Writing_Grade 11

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Grade

Études littéraires et artistiques + production écrite

Concept/Content

Text forms and genres

Elaboration

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forms

genres

c/c_Études littéraires et artistiques + production écrite_Grade 10

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Grade

Études littéraires et artistiques + production écrite

Concept/Content

Outils d’enrichissement

le langage imagé
le contexte
le support visuel

Elaboration

culturel, social, historique, économique, politique, religieux, philosophique

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contexte

c/c_Études littéraires et artistiques + production écrite_Grade 10

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Études littéraires et artistiques + production écrite

Concept/Content

Outils langagiers

la connotation et la dénotation
les registres de langue
les types de discours
la syntaxe et le vocabulaire

Elaboration

narratif, descriptif, explicatif, argumentatif

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types de discours

c/c_Études littéraires et artistiques + production écrite_Grade 10

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Grade

Études littéraires et artistiques + production écrite

Concept/Content

Stratégies

Le processus d’écriture
les procédés d’écriture
la prise de position
l’implicite et l’explicite
le schéma de communication
les stratégies de mémorisation
la mention des sources

Elaboration

planification, brouillon, correction, rédaction, révision, publication

stylistiques, lexicaux, grammaticaux, syntaxiques

évocations visuelles, auditives, kinesthésiques; méthodes mnémotechniques

paraphrase, citation, bibliographie

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Le processus d’écriture

procédés d’écriture

stratégies de mémorisation

mention des sources

c/c_Études littéraires et artistiques + production écrite_Grade 10

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Grade

Études littéraires et artistiques + production écrite

Concept/Content

Outils littéraires

la rhétorique
les procédés stylistiques
les éléments d’analyse
les protocoles pour l’obtention de la permission et de la manière d'utiliser des récits des peuples autochtones

Elaboration

cadre temporel, cadre spatial, techniques narratives (focalisation, perspective, schéma narratif), personnage, destinateur, destinataire

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éléments d’analyse

c/c_Études littéraires et artistiques + production écrite_Grade 10

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