Outcome Chart – British Columbia – English Language Arts: Literary Studies 11

Big Ideas

  • People understand text differently depending on their worldviews and perspectives.
  • Texts are socially, culturally, geographically, and historically constructed.
  • Questioning what we hear, read, and view contributes to our ability to be educated and engaged citizens.

Curricular Competencies

Comprehend and Connect (reading, listening, viewing)

  • Access information for diverse purposes and from a variety of sources
  • Evaluate the relevance, accuracy, and reliability of texts
  • Apply appropriate strategies in a variety of contexts to comprehend written, oral, visual, and multimodal texts, to guide inquiry, and to extend thinking
  • Recognize and understand how different forms, formats, structures, and features of texts enhance and shape meaning and impact
  • Think critically, creatively, and reflectively to explore ideas within, between, and beyond texts
  • Recognize and understand personal, social, and cultural contexts, values, and perspectives in texts, including culture, gender, sexual orientation, and socio-economic factors
  • Recognize and understand how language constructs personal, social, and cultural identities
  • Construct meaningful personal connections between self, text, and world
  • 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

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Content

Students are expected to be able to know the following:

  • Text forms and genres
  • Strategies and processes
    • reading strategies
    • oral language strategies
    • metacognitive strategies
    • writing processes
    • design processes
  • Language features, structures, and conventions
    • elements of style
    • usage and conventions
    • citation techniques
    • literary elements and devices
    • literal and inferential meaning

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