English 11

Unit 1: Speaking and Listening

Speaking and listening to explore and clarify complex ideas, to communicate and respond personally and critically in structured formal situations, and to interact with sensitivity and respect across audiences and purposes.

• Asking perceptive and probing questions
• Presenting and defending points of view with evidence

• Interacting effectively in formal structured situations
• Adapting language and delivery to achieve goals
• Critically evaluating uses of language
• Adapting communication style to audience, purpose, and situation

Unit 2: Reading and Viewing

Reading and viewing complex print and multimedia texts; synthesizing information across diverse and differing perspectives; responding personally and critically to ambiguity and multiple perspectives; and analysing issues related to gender-based violence through a variety of texts.

• Comparing and analyzing media and visual texts
• Synthesizing meaning across diverse perspectives
• Applying strategies for complex print and multimedia texts
• Articulating author's purpose behind devices and techniques

• Acquiring and selecting information from varied sources
• Synthesizing information across a range of sources

• Articulating what triggers personal responses
• Connecting text ideas to personal experience
• Connecting themes and ideas across texts
• Exploring multiple perspectives on a text
• Justifying points of view on print and media texts
• Articulating feelings about ambiguities in complex texts

• Recognizing commonalities and differences across texts
• Recognizing how language and genre influence or manipulate
• Examining relationships among language, purpose, and audience
• Analyzing the merits of texts and genres
• Exploring diverse ways texts reveal and produce ideologies
• Reflecting on responses across social and cultural contexts

• Investigating intersectionality and gender-based violence
• Questioning how societal norms perpetuate or prevent harm
• Analysing how authors reflect or challenge attitudes
• Evaluating factors that impact a bystander's opportunity to intervene

Unit 3: Writing and Other Ways of Representing

Using writing and other ways of representing to explore and reflect on complex experiences; creating clear, coherent texts for demanding audiences and purposes; and using a range of strategies to construct increasingly complex texts with control of conventions.

• Writing to explore and reflect on experiences and learning
• Using note-making strategies to reconstruct knowledge
• Making informed choices to enhance imaginative writing

• Creating a clear and coherent structure
• Choosing form and style and engaging the reader
• Using audience feedback to improve products

• Applying strategies to construct complex texts
• Demonstrating control of conventions
• Committing to crafting a range of work
• Using information from varied sources to construct meaning