Outcome Chart - Manitoba - English Language Arts 10

Listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to explore thoughts, ideas, feelings, and experiences

Discover and Explore

  • Explore a variety of texts and genres by particular writers, artists, storytellers, and filmmakers outside areas of personal preferences

Clarify and Extend

  • Ask discriminating questions and experiment to interpret, evaluate, and reflect on ideas and information; construct hypotheses to explain ambiguities observable in the world

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Listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to comprehend and respond personally and critically to oral, print, and other media texts

Use Strategies and Cues

  • Use textual cues [such as the structures of prose, poetry, plays, and media texts…], prominent organizational patterns [such as logic, comparison and contrast, problem and solution…] within texts, and stylistic techniques [such as flashbacks, foreshadowing…] to confirm meaning and interpret texts

Respond to Texts

  • Experience texts from a variety of genres [such as documentaries, human interest stories, forums, musicals, science fiction…] and cultural traditions; revise interpretations following discussion and review
  • Compare the portrayals of people, events, and perspectives of Canadian and international writers, artists, storytellers, and filmmakers
  • Examine how word choice in oral, literary, and media texts alters and enhances mood or meaning and affects audience

Understand Forms and Techniques

  • Describe various genres of oral, literary, and media texts and identify their strengths and limitations
  • Describe how plot, character, and setting contribute to an overall theme, and recognize the effectiveness of oral, verbal, and visual techniques
  • Analyse ways in which creative uses of language influence thought, emotion, and meaning; identify how symbols are used to represent abstract ideas

Create Original Text [such as video scripts, debates, editorials, audio tapes with voice and music, speeches, readers’ theatre, formal essays, letters, advertisements…] to

  • communicate and demonstrate understanding of forms and meanings

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Listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to manage ideas and information

Select and Process

  • Identify a range of diverse and specialized information sources [such as magazines, documentaries, hobby or sports materials, multimedia resources?] to satisfy inquiry or research needs
  • Evaluate the reliability and credibility of a variety of information sources and perspectives for a particular inquiry or research plan
  • Identify and analyze a variety of factors [such as distinctions between fact, emotion, and opinion; distinctions between content and its presentation - colour, angle, movement, framing, and sequencing; the speaker?s or author?s purpose and intention?] that affect meaning; use effective listening, reading and viewing techniques

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Tip Sheet

Listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to enhance the clarity and artistry of communication

Generate and Focus

  • Experiment with more than one organizational structure for a chosen form of own oral, written, and visual texts

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Listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to celebrate and build community

Develop and Celebrate Community

  • Recognize and act upon the importance of respecting evidence, truth, and the views of others when discussing, describing, or recording experiences
  • Recognize and discuss ways in which oral, literary, and media texts reflect cultural and attitudinal influences
  • Analyze the role of language and oral, literary, and media texts in revealing and explaining the human condition

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