Outcome Chart – British Columbia – English Studies 12

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.

Using oral, written, visual, and digital texts, students are expected individually and collaboratively to be able to:

Comprehend and Connect (reading, listening, viewing)

Read for enjoyment and to achieve personal goals
Use information for diverse purposes and from a variety of sources
Evaluate the relevance, accuracy, and reliability of texts
Select and apply appropriate strategies in a variety of contexts to comprehend written, oral, visual, and multimodal texts, to guide inquiry, and to extend thinking
Understand and appreciate 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 personal, social, and cultural contexts, values, and perspectives in texts, including gender, sexual orientation, and socio-economic factors
Appreciate 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 understanding and transform thinking
Respond to text in personal, creative, and critical ways
Demonstrate appropriate 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
Assess and refine texts to improve clarity, effectiveness, and impact
Use the conventions of Canadian spelling, grammar, and punctuation proficiently and as appropriate to the context
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
Strategies and processes
- Reading strategies
- Oral language strategies
- metacognitive strategies
- writing processes
- presentation techniques
- multimodal reading strategies
Language features, structures, and conventions
- elements of style
- usage and conventions
- citation techniques
- literary elements and devices