bi_English First Peoples_Grade 12_The exploration of text and story deepens our understanding of diverse, complex ideas about identity, others, and the world.

any type of oral, written, visual, or digital expression or communication:

• Visual texts can include gestural and spatial components (as in dance) as well as images (e.g., posters, photographs, paintings, carvings,  poles, textiles, regalia, and masks).
• Digital texts can include electronic forms of oral, written, and visual expression.
• Multimodal texts can include any combination of oral, written, visual, and/or digital elements and can be delivered via different media or technologies (some examples of multimodal texts are dramatic presentations, web pages, music videos, on-line presentations, graphic novels, and closed-captioned films).

a narrative text that shares ideas about human nature, motivation, behaviour, and experience; stories can record history, reflect a personal journey, or explore identity; stories can be oral, written, or visual, and used to instruct, inspire, and/or entertain listeners and readers