English Language Arts 30-2

Unit 1: Exploring Ideas & Perspectives

The confident applied reader-writer: forming and testing understandings, shaping effects with intention, and choosing strategies to grow from new perspectives.

• 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 Everyday & Workplace Texts

Diploma-level applied reading: explaining purpose and assessing a text's suitability for its audience, judging which forms fit a purpose, and showing how devices create clarity.

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

• Relating form to purpose
• Devices that create clarity and emphasis

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

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

Independent applied inquiry: scoping research, judging sources, and synthesizing new ideas by integrating evidence with prior knowledge.

• 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 Texts

Command over applied creation: choosing form for purpose, developing content you own, and assessing the controlling idea for appropriateness and significance.

• 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