British Columbia - English Language Arts 11-12 - English Composition 11
Curricular Competencies
Using oral, written, visual, and digital texts, students are expected individually and collaboratively to be able to:
Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing)
- Access information for diverse purposes and from a variety of sources to inform writing
- 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 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
- Identify bias, contradictions, distortions, and omissions
MediaSmarts Resources
- Advertising and Male Violence
- Beyond Media Messages: Media Portrayal of Global Development
- Bias
- Bias and Crime in Media
- Bias in News Sources
- Break the Fake: Hoax? Scholarly Research? Personal Opinion? You Decide!
- Camera Shots
- Celebrities and World Issues
- Crime in the News
- Digital Outreach for Civic Engagement
- Digital Skills for Democracy: Assessing online information to make civic choices.
- Digital Storytelling for Civic Engagement
- Diversity and Media Ownership
- Don’t Drink and Drive: Assessing the Effectiveness of Anti-Drinking Campaigns
- Finding and Authenticating Online Information on Global Development Issues
- First Person
- Images of Learning
- Introduction to Online Civic Engagement
- Kellogg Special K Ads
- Marketing to Teens: Alternate Ads
- Marketing to Teens: Gender Roles in Advertising
- Marketing to Teens: Gotta Have It! Designer & Brand Names
- Marketing to Teens: Marketing Tactics
- Marketing to Teens: Talking Back
- Miscast and Seldom Seen
- Online Propaganda and the Proliferation of Hate
- Perceptions of Youth and Crime
- Political Cartoons
- Popular Music and Music Videos
- Reality Check: Authentication 101
- Reality Check: Authentication and Citizenship
- Reality Check: Getting the Goods on Science and Health
- Reality Check: News You Can Use
- Reality Check: We Are All Broadcasters
- Relationships and Sexuality in the Media
- Sex in Advertising
- The Blockbuster Movie
- The Citizen Reporter
- The Front Page
- The Pornography Debate: Controversy in Advertising
- The Price of Happiness
- Transgender Representation in TV and Movies
- Violence on Television
- Watching the Elections
- Who’s Telling My Story?
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
- 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
Experiment with genres, forms, or styles of creative and communicative texts
- text/texts.
- land/place
- relevance
- reliability
- strategies
- multimodal texts
- forms
- formats
- structures
- features of texts
- Respectfully exchange ideas and viewpoints speaking
- listening skills
- range of purposes
- writing and design processes
- audiences
- refine texts to improve clarity, effectiveness, and impact
MediaSmarts Resources
- Art Exchange
- Bias and Crime in Media
- Bias in News Sources
- Digital Storytelling for Civic Engagement
- Diversity and Media Ownership
- Film Classification Systems in Québec
- First Person
- First, Do No Harm: Being an Active Witness to Cyberbullying
- Free Speech and the Internet
- Images of Learning
- Making Media for Democratic Citizenship
- Marketing to Teens: Gender Roles in Advertising
- Marketing to Teens: Marketing Tactics
- Marketing to Teens: Parody Ads - Lesson
- Marketing to Teens: Talking Back
- Miscast and Seldom Seen
- Online Relationships: Respect and Consent
- Perceptions of Youth and Crime
- Privacy Rights of Children and Teens
- Reality Check: Authentication 101
- Reality Check: We Are All Broadcasters
- Relationships and Sexuality in the Media
- Remixing Media
- Secure Comics
- The Price of Happiness
- The Privacy Dilemma: Lesson Plan for Senior Classrooms
- There’s No Excuse: Confronting Moral Disengagement in Sexting
- Transgender Representation in TV and Movies
- Watching the Elections
- Who’s Telling My Story?
Content
Students are expected to know the following:
Text forms and text genres
Text features and structures
- form, function, and genre of texts
- narrative structures found in First Peoples texts
- protocols related to the ownership of First Peoples oral texts
MediaSmarts Resources
- Camera Shots
- Crime in the News
- First Person
- Marketing to Teens: Alternate Ads
- Marketing to Teens: Gender Roles in Advertising
- Marketing to Teens: Gotta Have It! Designer & Brand Names
- Online Propaganda and the Proliferation of Hate
- Political Cartoons
- Popular Music and Music Videos
- Reality Check: News You Can Use
- Relationships and Sexuality in the Media
- Sex in Advertising
- The Blockbuster Movie
- The Citizen Reporter
- The Front Page
- The Pornography Debate: Controversy in Advertising
- Watching the Elections
Students are expected to know the following:
Strategies and processes
- reading strategies
- oral language strategies
- metacognitive strategies
- writing processes
MediaSmarts Resources
- Advertising and Male Violence
- Beyond Media Messages: Media Portrayal of Global Development
- Marketing to Teens: Alternate Ads
- Marketing to Teens: Gotta Have It! Designer & Brand Names
- Online Propaganda and the Proliferation of Hate
- Perceptions of Youth and Crime
- Political Cartoons
- Popular Music and Music Videos
- Sex in Advertising
- The Front Page
- The Pornography Debate: Controversy in Advertising
- Watching the Elections