Outcome Chart – British Columbia - English First Peoples: Literary Studies + Spoken Language 11

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.
Self-representation through authentic First Peoples text is a means to foster justice.

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 understanding 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 to inform development of oral texts
Recognize and appreciate how different forms, formats, structures, and features of texts reflect different 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 oral and other 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 roles of story and oral traditions in expressing
Assess the authenticity of First Peoples texts
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 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 spoken language formats for intended purposes
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
Use creative processes to plan, develop, and create engaging and meaningful oral texts for a variety of purposes and audiences
Assess and refine oral and other texts to improve clarity, effectiveness, and impact
Use a variety of techniques to engage listeners
Experiment with genres, forms, or styles of oral and other texts
Understand intellectual property rights and community protocols and apply as necessary