English Language Arts 12 (ENG621A)

Unit 1: Speaking and Listening

Speaking and listening to justify understanding, generate a defence while engaging in formal conversation, and critically evaluate their own and others' oral text — 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
• Responding to complex questions to extend own and others' ideas

• Examining a mentor defence with spontaneous conversation
• Interacting with a critical audience to defend a viewpoint
• Using language and rhetoric to influence and question

• Examining a mentor text for critically evaluating oral text
• Analysing verbal and nonverbal language in oral text
• Identifying strengths and areas for improvement in oral language

Unit 2: Reading and Viewing

Critically analysing a wide variety of complex texts and a multi-genre study; evaluating the effectiveness of literary devices; evaluating how ideologies are portrayed; and integrating properly cited information from a wide variety of sophisticated and reliable sources.

• Comprehending complex texts using strategies
• Identifying a text's purpose, structure, and characteristics
• Assessing how texts manipulate and shape belief and power
• Making textual connections across a multi-genre study

• Identifying the full range of literary devices
• Inferring the author's purpose for a literary device
• Making judgments about the effectiveness of literary devices

• Identifying an author's portrayal of ideology
• Analysing ideology across texts
• Assessing the reliability of information

• Selecting a wide variety of sophisticated, reliable sources
• Balancing quantity with quality of resources
• Evaluating the research and inquiry process

Unit 3: Writing and Other Ways of Representing

Constructing a range of complex persuasive texts and a creative multi-genre collection, providing specific critical feedback using success criteria, and enhancing personal text based on independently sought and teacher feedback.

• Using the writing process to develop a text
• Selecting form, style, and content for audience and purpose
• Using literary and rhetorical devices to persuade
• Developing a creative multi-genre collection

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

• Understanding critical feedback as a powerful revision tool
• Independently seeking feedback from others
• Revising a text in response to feedback