English Language Arts 10 (ENG421A/B)

Unit 1: Speaking and Listening

Speaking and listening to justify understanding, produce an oral presentation advocating for an idea or cause, and construct an expository oral text that explains an idea or process — interacting with sensitivity and respect for situation, audience, and purpose.

• Roles and responsibilities of an effective speaker and listener
• Active listening and analysing others' viewpoints
• Reflecting on learning and justifying understanding with examples

• Examining a mentor text that advocates for a cause
• Presenting a personal viewpoint with supporting detail
• How spoken language influences and reveals values

• Examining a mentor text that explains an idea or process
• Presenting an idea or process with effective language

Unit 2: Reading and Viewing

Critically analysing the purpose, structure, and characteristics of texts; examining the impact of literary devices; evaluating how identity and culture are portrayed; and integrating properly cited information from reliable sources.

• Reading and comprehending texts using strategies
• Identifying a text's purpose, structure, and characteristics
• Analysing how texts manipulate and shape belief and power
• Making and supporting critical judgments about a text

• Identifying literary devices and their meaning
• Analysing a literary device in context

• Identifying an author's portrayal of identity and culture
• Analysing identity and culture across texts
• Assessing the reliability of information

• Evaluating and selecting reliable sources
• Synthesizing sources with quotations and citing properly

Unit 3: Writing and Other Ways of Representing

Constructing a range of texts for a variety of audiences and purposes, providing specific critical feedback using success criteria, and enhancing personal text based on self, peer, and teacher feedback.

• Using the writing process to develop a text
• Selecting form, style, and content for audience and purpose
• Creating an organized structure and using the six traits
• Integrating cited sources into writing

• Assessing a text against success criteria
• Giving specific, respectful suggestions for improvement

• Considering and being open to critical feedback
• Revising a text in response to feedback