Outcome Chart - Manitoba - English Language Arts 12

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

Discover and Explore

  • Use experiences with a variety of texts and genres by particular writers, artists, storytellers, and filmmakers for enjoyment and satisfaction

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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, prominent organizational patterns within texts, and stylistic techniques [such as stream of consciousness, indirect characterization…] to confirm meaning and interpret texts

Respond to Texts

  • Experience a range of texts from a variety of genres [such as documentaries, epics, debates…] and cultural traditions; enhance personal interpretations and evaluations
  • Analyze how writers, artists, storytellers, and filmmakers portray and shape experiences, complexities, and tensions within Canadian society and culture
  • Analyze oral, literary, and media texts to determine how word choice, images, sound, and non-verbal cues create a composite meaning and effect

Understand Forms and Techniques

  • Evaluate how the choice of genre interacts with content to create effects
  • Compare how writers, artists, storytellers, and filmmakers use language to create a personal style and voice; evaluate the effectiveness of figurative language and techniques [such as satire, parody, irony…]; interpret symbolism and imagery in texts

Create Original Text [such as biographies, audio or video documentaries, critiques, films, photo-essays…] to

  • communicate and demonstrate understanding of forms and techniques

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

Select and Process

  • Identify a range of diverse forms of information sources [such as essays, primary, and secondary research, documentaries, speeches…] to satisfy information needs and personal viewpoint
  • Evaluate personal information sources for breadth, depth, reliability, validity, and accessibility
  • Identify and analyze a variety of factors [such as fallacies in argument, hasty generalizations or false analogies; emotional and rational appeals; distinctions between fact, opinion, propaganda, bias, and point of view; errors in logic; omissions] that affect meaning; listen read and view actively for speakers’ and writers’ themes, main ideas, and supporting details

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

Generate and Focus

  • Understand and evaluate the importance of organizing and reorganizing oral, written and visual texts to achieve purposes and engage audiences

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

Develop and Celebrate Community

  • Analyze ways in which cultural and social experiences shape personal responses to oral, literary, and media texts Analyze how language and oral, literary, and media texts reflect and affect the human condition

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