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Course Content

Students in grade 12 will be following this BC, CA course content.

They will learn a variety of BC, Canadian, and global First Peoples texts, as well as text forms and genres. They will study the common themes in First Peoples literature, the reconciliation in Canada, the First Peoples oral traditions, the legal status of First Peoples oral traditions in Canada, the purposes of oral texts, the relationship between oral tradition and land, and the relationship between oral tradition and land/place.

Students will also study the protocols which includes protocols related to ownership and use of First Peoples oral texts, acknowledgement of territory, situating oneself in relation to others and place, processes when engaging with First Nations communities and aboriginal organizations.

In the form of literature, students will learn and understand more about the text features and structures. These include the narrative structures, including those found in First Peoples texts, form, function, and genre of texts, elements of visual and graphic texts.

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Students will use strategies and processes including reading strategies, oral language strategies, metacognitive strategies, writing processes, and presentation techniques.

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They will also use language features, structures, and conventions. Skills that students are expected to know are: features of oral language, elements of style, language change, syntax and sentence fluency, rhetorical devices, usage and conventions, literary elements and devices, literal and inferential meaning, persuasive techniques, citations, and acknowledgements.