Outcome Chart – British Columbia – English Language Arts: Creative Writing 11

Big Ideas

Comprehend and Connect (reading, listening, viewing)

Access information for diverse purposes and from a variety of sources to inform writing
Recognize and understand how different forms, formats, structures, and features of texts reflect a variety of purposes, audiences, and messages
Think critically, creatively, and reflectively to explore ideas within, between, and beyond texts
Recognize and identify the role of personal, social, and cultural contexts, values, and perspectives in texts
Recognize and understand how language constructs personal, social, and cultural identities
Construct meaningful personal connections between self, text, and world
Evaluate how text structures, literary elements, techniques, and devices enhance and shape meaning and impact
Recognize an increasing range of text structures and understand how they contribute to meaning
Identify bias, contradictions, distortions, and omissions

Create and Communicate (writing, speaking, representing)

Respectfully exchange ideas and viewpoints from diverse perspectives to build shared understandings and extend thinking
Respond to text in personal, creative, and critical ways
Demonstrate speaking and listening skills in a variety of formal and informal contexts for a range of purposes
Use writing and design processes to plan, develop, and create engaging and meaningful texts for a variety of purposes and audiences
Express and support an opinion with evidence
Reflect on, assess, and refine texts to improve clarity, effectiveness, and impact
Use acknowledgements and citations to recognize intellectual property rights
Transform ideas and information to create original texts, using various genres, forms, structures, and styles

Students are expected to be able to know the following:

Text forms and genres
Text features and structures
- form, function, and genre of texts
- elements of visual/graphic texts