English Articles (4)
Composition
Students will be learning how to analyze how First Peoples languages and texts reflect their cultures, knowledge, worldviews, and how different features reflect a variety of audiences and messages. They will access information for diverse purposes and from a variety of sources. They will also select strategies for inquiry and comprehension. Students think critically, creatively, and reflectively to explore ideas related to texts, recognize and identify personal, social, and cultural contexts in texts, appreciate and understand how language constructs and reflects identities, construct meaningful connections between self, text, and world, demonstrate understanding of the role of story and oral traditions in expressing First Peoples values and perspective, understand and evaluate how literary elements enhance and shape meaning and impact, analyze the diversity and influence of land/place in First Peoples societies represented in texts, as well as assessing its authenticity, examine the significance of terms/words from First Peoples languages used in English texts, and discern nuances in the meanings of words in wide contexts, and identify bias, contradictions, distortions, and omissions.
Communication
Students will communicate between the First Peoples. They will respectfully exchange ideas and viewpoints from diverse perspectives to build shared understandings and extend thinking, demonstrate speaking and listening skills in a variety of contexts in different purposes, apply appropriate oral communication for intended purposes, express and support opinions with evidence, respond to text in personal, creative, and critical ways, use writing and design processes to create engaging and meaningful texts for a variety of purposes and audiences, assess and refine texts to improve clarity and impact, experiment with genres, forms, or styles of texts, use the conventions of First Peoples and other Canadian spelling, syntax, and diction proficiently and appropriately to the context, transform ideas and information to create original texts, using various genres, forms, structures, and styles, and recognize intellectual property rights and protocols and apply as necessary.