Outcome Chart - British Columbia - English Language Arts 12

Big Ideas

The exploration of text and story deepens our understanding of diverse, complex ideas about identity, others, and the world.
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.

Overall Expectations: Comprehending and Connect (reading, listening, viewing)

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

Specific Expectations:

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 analyze 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
Recognize an increasing range of text structures and how they contribute to meaning
Identify bias, contradictions, distortions, and omissions

Specific Expectations: Create and Communicate (writing, speaking, presenting)

Respectfully exchange ideas and viewpoints from diverse perspectives to build shared understanding and extend 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 their 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