Outcome Chart – British Columbia – French Immersion Language Arts (FILA) 6

Big Ideas

  • The impact of a message largely depends on the author’s word choices and style.
  • Discovering other cultures encourages us to examine our own mores and values.
  • Asking questions allows us to connect ideas and develop our ability to think critically.

Curricular Competencies

Exploring and Reflecting

  • Formulate hypotheses with respect to a text, and adjust these hypotheses
  • Distinguish between what is real and what is fictitious in the genres under study in order to highlight the imaginary elements
  • Identify spatial and temporal indicators in a text in order to imagine the setting of the action and explain the events depicted
  • Identify the different ways of telling a story and how this affects the audience

Creating and Communicating

  • Express views in a manner that recognizes the value of other people’s viewpoints, in order to broaden one’s own perspective and that of peers
  • Reformulate the main idea in a text
  • Organize and draft a coherent, well-structured text

Content

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

  • Communication strategies:
    • Clarification
    • Explanation
    • Consideration of other people’s perspectives
  • Text organization:
    • Structure of informational texts
    • Transitions between ideas
  • Revision strategies

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