English Language Arts 20-1

- Comprehend and respond personally and critically to texts

- Paraphrase key messages and identify the text creator’s purpose and target audience. - Analyze contextual elements and text features that inform meaning. - Explain how societal forces and environment shape text creation and audience suitability. - Use strategies to build background knowledge to interpret text and context. - Reflect on how personal experience and prior knowledge influence your interpretation.

- Use a variety of strategies (e.g., questioning, predicting, annotating, close reading) to comprehend literature and other texts. - Paraphrase a text’s controlling idea and relate supporting ideas and details; summarize and analyze plot, setting, character, atmosphere, conflict, and theme. - Analyze characters’ traits, motivations, relationships, attitudes, and values; explain how archetypes shape meaning. - Describe and interpret a text creator’s tone and register, and relate them to purpose, audience, and the moral or ethical stance conveyed. - Interpret figurative language, imagery, symbols, and allusions; analyze visual and aural elements; explain how these choices—and the presenter’s performance—affect audience response and overall meaning.

- Reflect on and describe strategies used to engage prior knowledge to comprehend new texts; select, monitor, and modify these strategies as needed. - Assess personal expectations for texts in light of prior experiences with similar contexts, content, and text forms. - Use metacognitive strategies to connect prior knowledge of contexts, rhetorical devices, textual elements, and structures to new understandings; identify and explain purposeful variations from conventional use. - Classify the genre/form of new texts using attributes of previously studied genres/forms.

- Identify a variety of text forms (communications and literary) and explain how form relates to purpose. - Explain how audience factors (e.g., age, gender, culture) influence choices of form and medium. - Identify organizational patterns and structural features, and explain how they contribute to purpose and content; assess the effectiveness of a text’s organization. - Describe characteristics of common communication media, analyze how medium affects message, and assess whether the chosen medium suits the intended purpose, content, and audience.

- Explain how textual elements, rhetorical devices, and stylistic techniques create clarity, coherence, and emphasis, and shape atmosphere, tone, and voice. - Recognize irony and satire in print and nonprint texts, identify the language that creates them, and analyze their effects. - Describe and assess the effects of musical devices, figures of speech, and sensory details in print and nonprint texts. - Explain how motif and symbol contribute to controlling idea and theme. - Analyze elements of effective oral, visual, and multimedia presentations, differentiate effective from ineffective presentations, and identify and analyze persuasive techniques and their effects on audiences.

- Explore thoughts, ideas, feelings and experiences

- Generate and experiment with strategies to form tentative understandings, interpretations, and positions; question, suspend prejudgement, and recognize that initial views and texts may be incomplete, inaccurate, misleading, or ambiguous. - Use a repertoire of effective strategies (e.g

- Experiment with language, image, and structure to create different effects for specific purposes, audiences, and situations. - Explain how experimenting with language, image, and structure improves personal craft and effectiveness as a text creator. - 20-1: b. Experiment with a variety of strategies, activities, and resources to explore ideas, observations, opinions, experiences, and emotions. - Listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to explore thoughts, ideas, feelings, and experiences.

- Describe and evaluate personal responses to new perspectives, identifying influences and whether they help or hinder understanding. - Select, monitor, and adjust strategies to extend awareness and understanding of new perspectives. - Identify and evaluate own ideas, perspectives, and interpretations for depth and evidence; compare them with others’ to broaden understanding when exploring and responding to texts. - Recognize and assess the strengths and limitations of various perspectives on a theme, issue, or topic, noting aspects for further consideration. - Analyze and evaluate how topics and themes, text forms, text types, and text creators influence own and others’ understandings, attitudes, and aspirations.

- Reflect on personal text preferences, identify influences on them, and choose strategies to broaden interests in texts and text creators. - Expand interests across a range of genres, text types, and creators, including texts in translation and from other countries. - Explain how the content and style of different texts appeal to audiences with particular interests and preferences. - Listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to explore thoughts, ideas, feelings, and experiences.

- Appraise your strengths and weaknesses as a language user and learner; select strategies to build on strengths and address weaknesses; monitor and adjust strategies to optimize growth (e.g., use a writing portfolio and reflections). - Set goals and apply effective strategies for language growth in formal and informal personal communications and community involvement (e.g., group work, leadership roles, auditioning, volunteering). - Set goals and draw from a repertoire of strategies to support language growth aligned with future aspirations (e.g., post-secondary learning and potential careers). - Identify and access learning sources and opportunities; assess, weigh, and manage risk; and demonstrate a willingness to continuously learn and grow.

- 20-1: Use a variety of appropriate reference strategies and technologies to aid understanding (e.g., formulate and refine questions, explore works cited, take notes, use library catalogues and Internet search engines). - 20-1: Create and use personal reference materials to aid understanding (e.g., a personalized dictionary/glossary and a World Wide Web/URL address list).

- Appreciate the effectiveness and artistry of print and nonprint texts a. recognize that texts can be effective and artistic, and use terminology appropriate to the forms studied for discussing and appreciating the effectiveness and artistry of a variety of texts b. describe the effectiveness of various texts, including media texts, for presenting feelings, ideas and information, and for evoking response b. appreciate the craft of the text creator and the shape and substance of works of literature and other texts - 20-1: a. use terminology appropriate to the forms studied for discussing and appreciating the effectiveness and Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to comprehend literature and other texts in oral, print, visual and multimedia forms, and respond personally, critically and creatively. - Recognize that texts can be effective and artistic, and use terminology appropriate to the forms studied for discussing and appreciating the effectiveness and artistry of a variety of texts Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to comprehend literature and other texts in oral, print, visual and multimedia forms, and respond personally, critically and creatively.

- Reflect on and assess the effectiveness of strategies used to guide inquiry or research (e.g., time management and division of labour in group work). - Identify and monitor strategies to improve future inquiry or research. - Review the appropriateness, accuracy, and significance of findings, conclusions, and generalizations; maintain detailed references; decide how best to share results; and determine next steps. - Seek feedback and use reflection to evaluate the entire inquiry or research process; strive for craftsmanship and accuracy; take pride in efforts and accomplishments.

- Respect, support and collaborate with others

- Monitor and adjust your verbal and nonverbal communication to convey respect and consideration. - Analyze how language and images in literature and other texts convey respectful or disrespectful perspectives, including portrayals of people and groups. - Identify and use inclusive verbal and nonverbal communication aligned with the behavioural expectations of the situation. - Distinguish constructive criticism from ridicule and irony from sarcasm; give and receive feedback constructively. - Analyze public tolerance for language and images in specific texts, including how it changes over time, and choose appropriate language and images accordingly.

- Appreciate diversity of thought and expression; select, monitor, and modify strategies for appreciating diversity. - Explain how selected works of literature and other print and nonprint texts convey, shape, and, at times, challenge individual and group values and behaviours. - Analyze the relationship between a text creator’s ideas and opinions and their underlying assumptions (such as those deriving from ideology or social status), and explain how these assumptions influence ideas, opinions, and supporting details.

- Recognize accomplishments and events a. use language and image to honour own and others’ accomplishments [for example, celebrate together when classmates have accomplished a particular task or produced, published or presented a particular text - Or celebrate the completion of a portfolio with family and friends by holding a “portfolio launch”] b. identify formal and informal ways in which language and image are used appropriately to honour people and to celebrate events [for example, eulogy, toast and public service announcements] b. describe various means by which language and image are used appropriately to honour people and to celebrate events, and explain how these means of using language and image help to build community [for example, heritage day - Wall of honour or photography exhibit - And naming ceremonies, religious ceremonies and prayers of First Nations and Aboriginal peoples] - 20-1: a. use language and image to honour own and others’ accomplishments [for example, celebrate together when classmates have accomplished a particular task or produced, published or presented a particular text

- Cooperate with others and contribute to group processes. - Set personal goals for participation; respect, support, and be open to others’ ideas; share relevant knowledge and perspectives. - Reflect on, select, monitor, and adapt strategies for negotiating, coordinating, and cooperating to achieve group goals. - Ensure the team’s purpose and objectives are clear.

- Develop and use criteria to monitor and assess group processes (e.g., division of labour, time management). - Explain and apply the roles and responsibilities of group members (e.g., researcher, presenter; director, participant; chairperson, recorder, timekeeper; roles of Aboriginal Elders in teaching the medicine wheel and the values of respect, humility, kindness, sharing, honesty, faith, perseverance), analyze how roles interact, and lead or support to motivate high performance. - Facilitate completion of group projects by setting clear purposes and procedures for problem solving, monitoring progress, and adjusting to meet objectives. - Analyze and use teamwork tools (e.g., checklists, role descriptors, timelines, flow charts, brainstorming whiteboards