English Language Arts 11 (ENG521A)

Unit 1: Speaking and Listening

Speaking and listening to justify understanding, create a defence for a critical audience, and respond verbally to complex, open-ended questions — interacting with sensitivity and respect for situation, audience, and purpose.

• Roles and responsibilities of an effective speaker and listener
• Analysing others' viewpoints through active listening
• Asking complex, open-ended questions to analyse ideas

• Examining a mentor text defence
• Presenting a viewpoint to a critical audience
• Critiquing opposing viewpoints with support

• Examining responses to complex, open-ended questions
• Assessing the situation in which questions are asked
• Responding with precise information and examples

Unit 2: Reading and Viewing

Critically analysing increasingly complex texts and a multi-genre study; examining the impact of literary devices; evaluating how gender and socioeconomic status are portrayed; and integrating properly cited information from increasingly sophisticated sources.

• Comprehending increasingly complex texts using strategies
• Identifying a text's purpose, structure, and characteristics
• Analysing how texts manipulate and shape belief and power
• Reading an issue across a multi-genre study

• Identifying allusion, irony, and symbolism and their meaning
• Analysing a literary device in context

• Identifying an author's portrayal of gender and socioeconomic status
• Analysing gender and socioeconomic status across texts
• Assessing the reliability of information

• Identifying reliable and unreliable sources
• Selecting increasingly sophisticated, reliable sources
• Synthesizing sources with quotations and citing properly

Unit 3: Writing and Other Ways of Representing

Constructing a range of increasingly complex texts including a creative multi-genre collection, 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
• Making informed language and technique choices
• Developing a creative multi-genre collection

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

• Considering critical feedback and its advantages
• Revising a text in response to feedback