Outcome Chart - British Columbia - English 11 First Peoples: Literary Studies + New Media

Big Ideas

The exploration of text and story deepens our understanding of diverse, complex ideas about identity, others, and the world.
First Peoples texts and stories provide insight into key aspects of Canada’s past, present, and future.
Texts are socially, culturally, geographically, and historically constructed
Self-representation through authentic First Peoples text is a means to foster justice.
New media influence people’s understandings of community

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:

Demonstrate awareness of how First Peoples languages and texts reflect their cultures, knowledge, histories, and worldviews
Access information for diverse purposes and from a variety of sources and evaluate its relevance, accuracy, and reliability
Apply appropriate strategies in a variety of contexts to guide inquiry, extend thinking, and comprehend texts
Recognize and understand 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

Demonstrate understanding of how language constructs and reflects personal, social, and cultural identities
Construct meaningful personal connections between self, text, and world
Recognize and understand the role of story and oral traditions in expressing First Peoples perspectives, values, beliefs, and points of view
Understand and evaluate how literary elements and new media techniques and devices enhance and shape meaning and impact
Recognize the influence of land/place in First Peoples texts
identify bias, contradictions, distortions, and omissions
Recognize the complexities of being a digital citizen
Demonstrate understanding of how new media affect First Peoples languages, cultures, and worldviews
Understand how new media impacts social activism

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

Respectfully exchange ideas and viewpoints from diverse perspectives to build shared understandings and extend thinking
Demonstrate speaking and listening skills in a variety of formal and informal contexts for a range of purposes
Select and apply appropriate oral communication formats for intended purpose
Express and support an opinion with evidence
Respond to text in personal, creative, and critical ways
Use writing and design processes to plan, develop, and create engaging and meaningful multimedia and other texts for a variety of purposes and audiences
Experiment with genres, forms, or styles of texts
Transform ideas and information to create original texts, using various genres, forms, structures, and styles
Understand intellectual property rights and community protocols and apply as necessary
Use digital media to collaborate and communicate, both within the learning environment and larger communities
Select and use a variety of digital media appropriate to purpose, audience, and context