Études littéraires et artistiques + nouveaux médias 10

Core Competencies

Communicating
 
Collaborating
Critical and Reflective Thinking
 
Creative Thinking
Personal Awareness and Responsibility
 
Positive Personal and Cultural Identity
 
Social Awareness and Responsibility

Students are expected to know and understand the following, using a variety of texts and works from a broad range of literary genres and artistic movements with a focus on using a variety of multimodal, interactive, and digital texts:

As authors, readers and speakers, students are expected to do the following, using oral and written, digital and print, and textual and visual materials:

Big Ideas

Big Ideas

Reflecting and discussing a text enriches our understanding of ourselves, others, specific time periods, and the world.
Linguistic precision helps develop critical and creative thinking.
Understanding the form of a text makes it possible to appreciate its aesthetic and meaning.
Literary and artistic works reflect global Francophone culture and history, as shaped by the perception of the author.
A text is necessarily linked to time and space.
Digital citizenship
Global by nature, it evolves in a virtual world. It is free of physical borders and offers new opportunities and new responsibilities, such as the responsible and ethical use of the Internet and other digital technologies to contribute to civil and social communities.
implies recognizing the impact that new media has on ourselves, others, and the world.

Content

Learning Standards

Content

text organization
  • the structure
    manner and order in which ideas are organized
    and genre of a text 
  • graphic organization
  • citation techniques
    paraphrasing, citation, bibliography
literary elements
  • rhetoric
  • stylistic devices
  • elements of analysis
    timeframe, spatial framework, narrative techniques (focus, perspective, narrative), character, writer, audience
  • protocols for obtaining permission and use of First Peoples stories
strategies
language elements
  • connotation and denotation
  • language registers
  • types of discourse
    narrative, descriptive, explanatory, argumentative
  • syntax and vocabulary
  • digital language
    interactivity between words and images, elliptical expressions, jargon, slang, digital abbreviations
elements to enrich a text
  • colourful language
  • the relationship between images and words
  • context
    cultural, social, historic, economic, political, religious, philosophical
  • the digital footprint
  • the role of visuals

Curricular Competency

Learning Standards

Curricular Competency

Exploring and Reflecting

Identify, compare, and make connections between themes and cultural references in French-language texts
Identify and evaluate similarities and differences between texts through comparative study
Identify and put into practice the principles of digital citizenship
Define the problem statement of a text
Consider the diversity
includes ethnic, cultural, linguistic, sexual, religious, social, and economic diversity, as well as gender identity and gender expression
and richness of the context to grasp the message conveyed in French-language texts
Recognize and understand the role of story and oral and artistic tradition in expressing First Peoples perspectives, values, and beliefs
Recognize the different ways in which language and images can be used in a variety of texts
Explore the symbolism in a text in order to better grasp the text’s meaning
Analyze the effects of language, structure, technique, and style on the audience
Evaluate the relevance and validity
reliability of information considering a variety of factors such as: its origins, its objectivity, its impartiality, its veracity, its incorrectness, etc.
of the information presented to make a decision or take a position

Creating and Communicating

Respond to text in personal, creative, and critical ways
Use the writing and design process to plan, develop and organize ideas
aim for consistency, efficiency, logic, and a clear flow of ideas
in order to communicate clearly
Modify the way a message is presented to reflect its communication context by using the presentation format
digital, visual, oral or other (students might use aids such as graphs, illustrations, music clips, photographs, tables, and videos)
that best suits the sender’s or others’ abilities and skills
Convey a message by providing a visual representation that draws on new media
Summarize the message conveyed in a text
Develop arguments that take into account different perspectives
Support arguments with appropriate evidence and references of texts that respond to a specific objective and audience
Use grammar, syntax, and punctuation appropriate to the context and purpose
Use a variety of stylistic devices to produce different types of texts that respond to a specific objective and audience
Behave ethically when communicating