Big Ideas
Big Ideas
Expressing our thoughts enables us to situate ourselves in relation to our own and others’ cultures.
Considering the feelings evoked by a message and its unspoken elements allows us to construct the meaning of a message.
emotions experienced
The themes of a narrative emerge from the situations characters experience and the way they respond to those situations.
The form of a text plays as important a role as its content in conveying a message and creating a desired effect.
Content
Learning Standards
Content
communication strategies:
- verbalintonation, voice, volume, speed, tone, pauses, etc.and non-verbalgestures and mimicrycommunication
- argumentationarguments for and against
- clarification
- reformulation
- consideration of other people’s perspectives
cultural and historical elements
literary elements:
- characteristics of poetryimplicit meaning, explicit meaning, theme, tone, poetic elements, etc.
- characteristics of the youth novelgenre, characters, setting, plot, theme, sub-themes, chain of events, etc.
text organization:
- narrative structuresetting, inciting incident, rising action, falling action and resolution
- structure of informational textsthematic progression
- argumentative paragraphsmain idea, explanation, examples, transitions using discourse markers (cause and effect, and consequence) and conclusion
language elements:
- structure of the superlativerelative (with adjectives) and absolute (with adverbs)
- agreement of tenseslogical choice of verb moods and tenses in a text
revision strategies
rereading, consulting reference tools, using a revision grid, etc.
Curricular Competency
Learning Standards
Curricular Competency
Exploring and Reflecting
Identify verbal and non-verbal responses and adjust discourse accordingly, in order to be better understood
Compare the cultural elements of different Francophone and Aboriginal texts
oral, written, visual
Identify implicit information in a text
oral, written, visual
, relying on specific cues and prior knowledge
Analyze the roles that characters play in the plot to understand the important stages of plot development
Identify poetic elements
e.g., versification, stylistic elements, etc.
and explain their effects on readers
Identify the structure of a text
oral, written, visual
to determine how it is organized and how its ideas are connected
Creating and Communicating
Spontaneously support and justify own viewpoints
Respond to a text
oral, written, visual
by identifying passages that evoke feelings and emotions
Create a character portrayal including physical characteristics and psychological traits
Organize thoughts using the most appropriate structure for presenting one’s work
Write clear, coherent texts
oral, written, visual
, following the structures being studied
In one’s work, revise the ideas, organization and grammar to improve the message