English 10

Unit 1: Speaking and Listening

Speaking and listening to explore and reflect on ideas, to communicate information effectively and respond personally and critically, and to interact with sensitivity and respect for situation, audience, and purpose.

• Constructing ideas through questions and responses
• Presenting a personal viewpoint to a group

• Adapting to formal and informal speaking situations
• Adapting a message to the speaker-listener connection
• Physical qualities and language choices in oral communication
• Awareness of varieties of language and communication styles

Unit 2: Reading and Viewing

Selecting, reading, and viewing a range of literature, information, media, and visual texts; interpreting and combining information; responding personally and critically; and analysing issues related to gender-based violence through a variety of texts.

• Viewing a wide variety of media and visual texts
• Seeking meaning with reading strategies
• Clearing up confusing parts and adjusting reading rate
• Understanding the impact of literary devices and media techniques

• Researching information systematically
• Selecting and evaluating information for a task
• Integrating information to meet a task

• Articulating and supporting a personal response
• Questioning, connecting, evaluating, and extending
• Making thematic connections across texts and media
• Considering more than one interpretation

• Examining aspects of texts that contribute to meaning
• Making inferences and supported responses
• Exploring relationships among language, genre, purpose, and audience
• Discussing the characteristics of texts and genres
• Awareness that texts reveal and produce ideologies
• Evaluating how cultures and groups are portrayed in media

• Investigating how gender roles and stereotypes are expressed
• Investigating power dynamics and gender
• Questioning how gender depictions influence perceptions of consent
• Analysing how social norms shape bystander responses

Unit 3: Writing and Other Ways of Representing

Using writing and other ways of representing to explore and reflect; creating texts collaboratively and independently for a range of audiences and purposes; and using a range of strategies to develop effective, clear, and precise writing and representation.

• Writing to extend ideas and reflect on learning
• Note-making and representing to reconstruct knowledge
• Choosing language for imaginative effect

• Creating an organizing structure for a text
• Selecting form and style and engaging the reader
• Reflecting on others' responses to create new pieces

• Awareness of what writing processes work for you
• Using conventions of written language consistently
• Committing to crafting writing and representations
• Using materials and ideas to clarify for an audience