English, Grade 11, University Preparation

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
• Grammar: writing correct sentence types
• Grammar: agreement and verb tense
• 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