Outcome Chart – British Columbia – French Immersion Language Arts (FILA) 11 – Language and Culture of the French-Speaking World

Big Ideas

  • The life experience, culture, and current context of the audience influence the interpretation of a text.
  • The exploration of texts reveals the depth and complexity of human life.

Curricular Competencies

Explore and Reflect

  • Interpret a text to identify implicit and explicit messages
  • Compare their personal values and points of view with those expressed in a text in order to call into question their own opinions
  • Recognize the type and intention of a text
  • Apply appropriate strategies in a variety of contexts in order to understand and produce a text
  • Develop a critical mind, clarity, and coherence in responding to texts
  • Evaluate the acquisition of new knowledge concerning a text

Create and Communicate

  • Paraphrase ideas and information obtained from a text
  • Substantiate their message using techniques from diverse sources

Content

Students are expected to be able to know and understand the following in various contexts:

  • Text organization:
    • Structure of texts
  • Editing strategies
  • Elements to enrich a text
    • Clarity
    • Persuasion

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