Outcome Chart – British Columbia – French Immersion Language Arts (FILA) 8

Big Ideas

  • Deepening our understanding of a text requires discovering the implicit and explicit information in it.
  • The communicator, by organizing his or her ideas and relying on various sources, defends his or her point of view and influences the audience.

Curricular Competencies

Exploring and Reflecting

  • Analyze a text in order to explore its various interpretations
  • Distinguish between the explicit and implicit meanings of a text
  • Assess the reliability and accuracy of information in a text by examining and questioning the sources of this information

Creating and Communicating

  • Respond critically to different types of text
  • Summarize a text by reformulating the main and secondary ideas
  • Prepare and present arguments and counter-arguments to justify one’s own viewpoint and to understand the viewpoints of others

Content

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

  • Communication strategies:
    • Defending a position
  • Text organization:
    • Structure of informational texts
    • Structure of argumentative texts

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