Outcome Chart - British Columbia - Spoken Language 11

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.

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:

Recognize and understand the role of story, narrative, and oral tradition in expressing form, function, and genre of texts
Recognize and understand the diversity within and across First Peoples societies as represented in texts
Access information for diverse purposes and from a variety of sources
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 various 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

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 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
Use writing and design processes to plan, develop, and create spoken language and other texts for a variety of purposes and audiences
Express and support an opinion with evidence
Assess and refine oral 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