English Language Arts, Secondary 3

Unit 1: Reading Process: Interpreting Texts

Reading Process: Interpreting Texts — the Québec secondary ELA strand, at Secondary Cycle Two, Year 1 (Sec 3) register.

• Use: Extends/supports/scaffolds first reading/initial res…
• Use: Keeps track of changes in own first reading/initial…

• Notice (guided intro): new Reading Process: Interpreting Texts material

• Use: Draws inferences about the view of the world present…
• Use: Draws generalizations and conclusions based on evide…
• Use: Locates evidence in the text of how the writer/produ…

• Use: Interrelates aspects of his/her reading profile, the…
• Use: Determines own working hypothesis, theory, controlli…
• Use: Organizes elements of own interpretation in order to…

• Use: Compares/contrasts with other texts that treat the s…
• Use: Analyzes dominant features of the text, such as its…
• Use: Explains how real and imaginary are represented by t…
• Use: Explains how fact and opinion are represented by the…

• Use: Draws coherent conclusions by making inferences and…

Unit 2: Production Process

Production Process — the Québec secondary ELA strand, at Secondary Cycle Two, Year 1 (Sec 3) register.

• Use: See also the Required Genres section of this documen…
• Use: Purpose and context in which the text was produced t…
• Use: How characteristics of the intended/target audience…

• Use: Familiar audience (e.g. provides additional details…
• Notice (guided intro): new Production Process material

• Use: Personal experience(s) and knowledge
• Use: Uses appropriate organizational devices in light of…
• Use: Researches to locate material, resources and/or expe…

• Use: Precision in the use of details and/or information
• Use: Coherence in light of the production context, purpos…
• Use: Accuracy in the use of structure, features, codes an…

• Use: Clarity regarding the layout and presentation of the…

• Use: Uses teacher- peer- and self-evaluation as a resourc…

Unit 3: Research Process

Research Process — the Québec secondary ELA strand, at Secondary Cycle Two, Year 1 (Sec 3) register.

• Use: Uses problem solving to interpret data and informati…
• Use: Narrows topic/subject in order to focus research (e.…
• Notice (guided intro): new Research Process material

• Use: Primary sources (e.g. artefacts, interviews, autobio…
• Use: Secondary sources (e.g. reference texts, newspaper a…

• Use: Categorizes data/information (e.g. collates results…
• Use: Makes generalizations (e.g. determines statistical s…

Unit 4: Required Genres: Planning Texts

Required Genres: Planning Texts — the Québec secondary ELA strand, at Secondary Cycle Two, Year 1 (Sec 3) register.

• Use: Outlines and storyboards (i.e. for research, written…

• Use: List of actions to undertake or of ideas to discuss/…
• Use: Organization, categorization, collation and sequenci…
• Use: Conventions associated with thinking something throu…

Unit 5: Required Genres: Reflective Texts

Required Genres: Reflective Texts — the Québec secondary ELA strand, at Secondary Cycle Two, Year 1 (Sec 3) register.

• Use: Texts reflecting on values, experiences, ideas, opin…

• Use: Written self-evaluations and reflections, including…
• Use: Texts reflecting on values, experiences, ideas, opin…

• Use: Focus on ideas/experiences/qualities that are select…
• Use: Organizational structure to prioritize, sequence and…
• Use: Evidence from own experience including personal, glo…
• Use: Conclusion which shares a realization, resolution or…
• Use: Rhetorical strategies to build rapport, create a sen…
• Use: Tone and register to suit the genre and engage the i…
• Use: Genre-specific conventions (e.g. use of anecdotes, f…
• Use: Multigenre conventions (e.g. poems in a journal; rec…
• Use: Multimodal conventions (e.g. tentative language, ges…

Unit 6: Required Genres: Narrative Texts

Required Genres: Narrative Texts — the Québec secondary ELA strand, at Secondary Cycle Two, Year 1 (Sec 3) register.

• Use: Popular mass-produced texts such as magazines, graph…

• Use: Spoken performances (e.g. poetry reading, spoken wor…
• Notice (guided intro): new Required Genres: Narrative Texts material

• Use: Narratives in poetic form (e.g. lyric poetry, free v…

• Use: Major and minor characters (e.g. protagonist, antago…
• Use: Stock and/or flat characters (i.e. characters with o…
• Use: Conflict and resolution of conflict (i.e. central pr…
• Use: Features that move the story forward (i.e. incidents…

• Use: Overt or implied theme(s)

• Use: Character development (e.g. dialogue, dialect, patho…
• Use: Figurative language: metaphor, simile, imagery, pers…
• Use: Aesthetic qualities of language (e.g. alliteration,…

Unit 7: Required Genres: Explanatory Texts

Required Genres: Explanatory Texts — the Québec secondary ELA strand, at Secondary Cycle Two, Year 1 (Sec 3) register.

• Use: Explanations of a process (e.g. teaching something t…

• Use: Visuals to focus reader’s attention on what is most…
• Use: Rhetorical strategies to engage the intended/target…
• Notice (guided intro): new Required Genres: Explanatory Texts material

Unit 8: Required Genres: Reports

Required Genres: Reports — the Québec secondary ELA strand, at Secondary Cycle Two, Year 1 (Sec 3) register.

• Notice (guided intro): new Required Genres: Reports material
• Use: on areas of student interest and/or expertise on top…

• Use: Information organized and sequenced using a structur…
• Use: Layout which visually cues the reader (e.g. subheadi…

• Use: Visual conventions to convey information, meaning(s)…

Unit 9: Exposition: Persuasive Texts

Exposition: Persuasive Texts — the Québec secondary ELA strand, at Secondary Cycle Two, Year 1 (Sec 3) register.

• Use: Advertisements, including public service announcemen…
• Use: Reviews (e.g. of books, television programs, films,…
• Use: Advertisements, including public service announcemen…
• Notice (guided intro): new Exposition: Persuasive Texts material

Unit 10: Exposition: Argumentative Texts

Exposition: Argumentative Texts — the Québec secondary ELA strand, at Secondary Cycle Two, Year 1 (Sec 3) register.

• Notice (guided intro): new Exposition: Argumentative Texts material

Unit 11: Conventions: Spoken Language

Conventions: Spoken Language — the Québec secondary ELA strand, at Secondary Cycle Two, Year 1 (Sec 3) register.

• Use: Adapts the rhetorical aspects of spoken language to…
• Use: Uses the aesthetic qualities of spoken language to g…
• Notice (guided intro): new Conventions: Spoken Language material

Unit 12: Conventions: Written Language

Conventions: Written Language — the Québec secondary ELA strand, at Secondary Cycle Two, Year 1 (Sec 3) register.

• Use: Uses a variety of sentence structures (simple, compo…
• Use: Demonstrates consistent variation in sentence beginn…
• Use: Respects subject/verb agreement, including verb tens…
• Use: Uses colons and semicolons correctly
• Use: Uses relevant/required print cues (e.g. underlining…
• Notice (guided intro): new Conventions: Written Language material

• Use: Uses a metalanguage to discuss own texts, own progre…

Unit 13: Conventions: Media Language

Conventions: Media Language — the Québec secondary ELA strand, at Secondary Cycle Two, Year 1 (Sec 3) register.

• Use: Depiction of products in advertising (e.g. magazine,…
• Use: Adaptation of a genre in different media (e.g. a nov…
• Use: Coverage of same action or event by a single medium…

• Notice (guided intro): new Conventions: Media Language material

• Use: Create a sense of tone, mood, emotion, pacing (e.g.…

• Use: Capture and maintain a viewer’s attention (e.g. came…
• Use: Create atmosphere (e.g. dark lighting)
• Use: Move action forward (e.g. camera movement and transi…

• Use: Bias or stereotyping
• Use: Promotion of a product, idea or action
• Use: Inferences (e.g. a surge of music to underscore the…