English Language Arts 10-1

Unit 1: Exploring Ideas & Perspectives

Reading and writing begin as thinking: forming your own tentative understandings, playing with how language creates effects, and letting new perspectives stretch what you notice.

• Forming tentative understandings
• Experimenting with language, image and structure

• Considering new perspectives
• Expressing preferences and expanding interests
• Setting personal goals for language growth

Unit 2: Comprehending Literature & Other Texts

The heart of ELA 10-1: reading closely for meaning in context, understanding how form and technique shape a text, and responding to it with evidence and judgement.

• Discerning and analyzing context
• Understanding and interpreting content
• Using reference strategies
• Engaging prior knowledge

• Relating form to purpose and content
• Devices, techniques and their effects

• Connecting self, text, culture and milieu
• Evaluating texts with criteria
• Appreciating effectiveness and artistry

Unit 3: Managing Ideas & Information (Inquiry & Research)

Turning a question into knowledge: planning an inquiry, gathering and organizing information, judging sources for bias and credibility, and drawing sound conclusions.

• Focusing purpose and form
• Planning and identifying sources

• Selecting, recording and organizing information
• Evaluating sources and detecting bias
• Forming generalizations and conclusions
• Reviewing the inquiry process and findings

Unit 4: Creating Oral, Print & Multimedia Texts

The writing core: choosing a form that fits your purpose, developing meaningful content, then revising and editing so the work is thoughtful, effective and correct.

• Assessing the text-creation context
• Choosing form, structure and medium
• Developing content
• Producing and presenting the text

• Enhancing thought, support and detail
• Enhancing organization
• Addressing matters of stylistic choice
• Editing for correctness