English, Grade 11, College Preparation
Ontario · Grade 11 · English Language Arts — the complete curriculum-aligned outline, taught skill by skill by MapleMind's AI tutor.
Unit 1: Oral Communication
Listening to understand and speaking to communicate in academic and literary situations: active listening, interpreting and analyzing oral texts, and delivering clear, effective spoken communication.
- Setting a purpose and goals for listening
- Using active listening strategies
- Listening comprehension strategies for complex texts
- Identifying the important ideas in oral texts
- Interpreting oral texts with evidence
- Extending understanding by making connections
- Analyzing how oral texts communicate
- Identifying perspectives and bias in oral texts
- Evaluating presentation strategies
- Communicating orally for a purpose and audience
- Adapting interpersonal speaking strategies
- Communicating a clear, structured argument
- Word choice and stylistic devices in speaking
- Using vocal strategies effectively
- Using non-verbal cues
- Using audio-visual aids to support a presentation
Unit 2: Reading and Literature Studies
Reading and understanding a variety of academic and literary texts: applying comprehension strategies, analyzing form and style, and reading with fluency.
- Reading diverse texts with a purpose
- Using reading comprehension strategies
- Identifying important ideas and supporting details
- Making and explaining inferences
- Extending understanding by making connections
- Analyzing how texts develop ideas and themes
- Evaluating the effectiveness of texts with evidence
- Identifying perspectives and bias in texts
- Characteristics of text forms
- Text features and how they communicate
- Elements of style and their effects
- Understanding words automatically in context
- Decoding unfamiliar words
- Strategies to expand vocabulary
Unit 3: Writing
Developing and organizing content, drafting and revising in academic and literary forms and styles, and applying knowledge of conventions to academic and literary writing.
- Identifying topic, purpose, and audience
- Generating and focusing ideas
- Locating and selecting supporting information
- Organizing ideas with suitable patterns
- Checking that ideas are relevant, accurate, and complete
- Writing in a variety of forms for purposes and audiences
- Establishing voice in writing
- Choosing vivid, precise words
- Varying sentences and making smooth transitions
- Recognizing beliefs and values in your writing
- Revising drafts to improve content and style
- Producing revised drafts to criteria
- Spelling correctly using rules and resources
- Building and refining word choice for writing
- Using punctuation correctly
- Using grammar conventions correctly
- Proofreading and correcting writing
- Using presentation features to publish
- Producing published work to criteria
Unit 4: Media Studies
Understanding, analyzing, and creating media texts: how they are built for purposes and audiences, their forms/conventions/techniques, and producing your own academic and literary media texts.
- How media texts suit purposes and audiences
- Interpreting overt and implied media messages
- Evaluating how effectively media texts communicate
- Why media texts prompt different responses
- Identifying perspectives and bias in media texts
- How production factors shape the media industry
- Characteristics of media forms
- Conventions and techniques in media forms
- Planning a media text: topic, purpose, audience
- Selecting an appropriate media form
- Planning conventions and techniques for a media text
- Producing media texts
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