Outcome Chart - British Columbia - English Language Arts - New Media 11

Big Ideas:

People understand text differently depending on their worldviews and perspectives.
Texts are socially, culturally, geographically, and historically constructed.
Digital citizenship requires both knowledge of digital technology and awareness of its impact on individuals and society.

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

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 comprehend written, oral, visual, and multimodal texts, to guide inquiry and to extend thinking
Recognize the complexities of digital citizenship
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
Evaluate how literary elements and new media techniques and devices reflect different purposes and audiences
Identify bias, contradictions, distortions, and omissions

Specific Expectations:

Text, features and structures

Strategies and Processes

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

Respectfully exchange ideas and viewpoints from diverse perspectives to build shared understandings and extend thinking
Respond to text in personal, creative, and critical ways
Select and use a variety of media appropriate to purpose, audience, and context
Use digital and multimedia writing and design processes to plan, develop, and create engaging and meaningful literary, imaginative, and informational 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 according to purpose, audience, and message
Use acknowledgements and citations to recognize intellectual property rights
Transform ideas and information to create original texts, using various genres, forms, structures, and styles

Specific Expectations:

Language features, structures and conventions

New Media functions