Outcome Chart - Nova Scotia - Advanced English Grade 12

Speaking and Listening

Overall Expectations:

  1. speak and listen to explore, extend, clarify, and reflect on their thoughts, ideas, feelings, and experiences
  2. communicate information and ideas effectively and clearly, and to respond personally and critically
  3. interact with sensitivity and respect, considering the situation, audience, and purpose

Specific Expectations:

1.1 examine others’ ideas and synthesize what is helpful to clarify and expand on their own understanding

AE1.2 demonstrate in their interactions an understanding of the cultural and critical reasons for their own viewpoint and those of others

1.3 articulate, advocate, and justify positions on an issue or text in a convincing manner, showing an understanding of a range of viewpoints

1.4 listen critically to analyse and evaluate concepts, ideas, and information

AE2.1 articulate the elements needed for effective participation in various learning contexts (large groups, small groups)

AE2.2 listen critically and respond thoughtfully to complex questions, concepts, ideas, and information

2.3 respond to a wide range of complex questions and directions

AE2.4 demonstrate fluency in communicating in formal contexts dependent on purpose and audience

AE2.5 exhibit extended vocabulary and verbal expression3.3 address the demands of a variety of speaking situations, making critical language choices, especially of tone and style

3.2 demonstrate how spoken language influences and manipulates, and reveals ideas, values, and attitudes

AE3.3 recognize the power of formal and informal language as it relates to race, gender, culture, and class (e.g., primary and secondary discourses)

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Reading and Viewing

Overall Expectations:

  1. select, read, and view with understanding a range of literature, information, media, and visual texts
  2. interpret, select, and combine information using a variety of strategies, resources, and technologies
  3. respond personally to a range of texts
  4. respond critically to a range of texts, applying their understanding of language, form, and genre
  5. analyse issues related to gender-based violence through a variety of texts

Specific Expectations:

4.1 select texts to support their learning needs and range of special interests

AE4.2 select challenging texts to support their learning needs and special interests

4.3 articulate their understanding of ways in which information texts are constructed for particular purposes

AE4.4 refine and extend their own processes and strategies in exploring, interpreting, and reflecting on sophisticated texts and tasks

4.5 articulate their own processes and strategies in exploring, interpreting, and reflecting on sophisticated texts and tasks

AE5.1 critically evaluate information, assessing the suitability, reliability, and credibility of language, form, genre, and source

5.1 access, select, and research, in systematic ways, specific information to meet personal and individual learning needs

− use information, in ways characterized by complexity of purpose, procedure, or subject matter

− evaluate their research processes

AE5.2 understand and appreciate the expectations of research ethics

AE6.1 investigate reasons for their responses to texts as individuals and as members of a socio-cultural group

6.2 articulate and justify points of view about texts and text elements

− interpret ambiguities in complex and sophisticated texts

AE7.1 evaluate the political, social, cultural, and emotional connotations embedded in language

AE7.2 evaluate and respond to the artful use of language in a variety of texts

7.3 respond critically to complex and sophisticated texts

− examine how texts work to reveal and produce ideologies, identities, and positions

− examine how media texts construct notions of roles, behaviour, culture, and reality

− examine how textual features help a reader and viewer to create meaning of the texts

AE11.1 analyse how texts influence perceptions of those impacted by gender-based violence.

AE11.2 reflect on the relationship between cultural perspectives on gender and systemic issues that contribute to gender-based violence.

AE11.3 analyse the responsibility of authors in their portrayal of gender-based violence.

AE11.4 evaluate the impact of bystander intervention in various contexts.

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Writing and Other Ways of Representing

Overall Expectations:

  1. use writing and other ways of representing to explore, clarify, and reflect on their thoughts, feelings, experiences, and learnings; and to use their imaginations
  2. create texts collaboratively and independently, using a variety of forms for a range of audiences and purposes
  3. use a range of strategies to develop effective writing and other ways of representing and to enhance their clarity, precision, and effectiveness

Specific Expectations:

AE8.1 demonstrate an understanding of the value of writing to extend thinking

− use metacognition to extend thinking and reflect on the writing process

− understand that writing is a way of thinking deeply

AE8.2 demonstrate an understanding of the value of other ways of representing to reflect insightful understandings of texts and issues

AE8.3 demonstrate an understanding of the similarities and differences among challenging texts and issues

AE8.4 communicate insight into and empathy for the diversity of the human experience

AE9.1 effectively defend an interpretation of a text or issue

AE9.2 develop, revise, and publish texts for purposes and audiences outside of the classroom

9.3 evaluate the responses of others to their writing and media production

AE10.1 create and support a scholarly thesis with appropriate evidence

AE10.2 demonstrate proficiency in matters of correctness and stylistic choice in a range of genres or forms

10.3 use technology effectively to serve their communication

Purposes

- design texts that they find aesthetically pleasing and useful

10.4 demonstrate a commitment to the skillful crafting of a range of writing and other representations

10.5 integrate information from many sources to construct and communicate meaning

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