English Language Arts, Secondary 4

Unit 1: Reading Process: Interpreting Texts

Reading Process: Interpreting Texts — the Québec secondary ELA strand, at Secondary Cycle Two, Year 2 (Sec 4) register.

• Use: Draws on needed background knowledge and experiences…
• Use: Produces a coherent first reading/initial response t…

• Use: Identifies characteristics of writer/producer and ho…

• Use: Selects a mode and genre that conveys own interpreta…

• Use: Analyzes how the text attempts to attract and hold t…

Unit 2: Production Process

Production Process — the Québec secondary ELA strand, at Secondary Cycle Two, Year 2 (Sec 4) register.

• Use: How the meaning/message is represented and communica…
• Use: Level of formality of the discourse (i.e. its regist…
• Use: Aspects of the writer’s/producer’s stance and how th…

• Use: Uses structures, features, codes and conventions of…
• Use: Uses knowledge about spoken and/or written and/or me…
• Use: Uses rhetorical strategies and different registers i…
• Use: Respects constraints of the media industry (e.g. len…

• Use: Effectiveness of technology used (e.g. rerecording n…
• Use: Use of stylistic conventions for specific effect (e.…

• Use: Continuity (e.g. ensures coherent visual style in a…

• Use: Selects the most effective way to present the text t…
• Use: Uses the appropriate codes and conventions to presen…
• Use: Manages resources in a presentation (e.g. checks tha…

• Use: Uses a metalanguage to explain production decisions…

Unit 3: Research Process

Research Process — the Québec secondary ELA strand, at Secondary Cycle Two, Year 2 (Sec 4) register.

• Use: Uses action research to effect social change
• Use: Selects a research protocol depending on purpose, co…
• Use: Develops a system to keep track of data/information…

• Use: Own data collection instruments (e.g. interviews, su…

Unit 4: Required Genres: Planning Texts

Required Genres: Planning Texts — the Québec secondary ELA strand, at Secondary Cycle Two, Year 2 (Sec 4) register.

• Use: Models of planning texts (i.e. outlines for research…

• Use: Conferences with peers and teacher (e.g. regarding a…

• Use: Action plans and proposals for projects (i.e. for ac…

• Use: Visual conventions to articulate the hierarchy and r…
• Use: Genre-specific conventions (e.g. quotations from the…

Unit 5: Required Genres: Narrative Texts

Required Genres: Narrative Texts — the Québec secondary ELA strand, at Secondary Cycle Two, Year 2 (Sec 4) register.

• Use: Archetypes (e.g. hero, maiden, arch nemesis)
• Use: Linear and nonlinear plotting (e.g. flashback, multi…
• Use: Features to structure the plot (e.g. series of drama…

• Use: Archetypal and contemporary themes (e.g. Faustian ba…

• Use: Connotation and denotation
• Use: Point of view (i.e. first person, second person, thi…
• Use: Tone and mood

• Use: Repetition and/or juxtaposition of symbols or motifs…

Unit 6: Required Genres: Explanatory Texts

Required Genres: Explanatory Texts — the Québec secondary ELA strand, at Secondary Cycle Two, Year 2 (Sec 4) register.

• Use: Multigenre conventions (e.g. emotional appeals (pers…
• Use: Multimodal conventions (e.g. use of resources such a…

Unit 7: Required Genres: Reports

Required Genres: Reports — the Québec secondary ELA strand, at Secondary Cycle Two, Year 2 (Sec 4) register.

• Use: Research reports on areas of student interest and ex…
• Use: Interviews (e.g. in print, on radio and/or televisio…
• Use: Interviews, including written and/or audio and/or vi…
• Use: Feature news stories on topics of local, national an…

• Use: Information selected and synthesized to reflect the…
• Use: Evidence to support details, ideas, concepts (e.g. v…
• Use: Conclusion(s) which highlight important facts or fin…

• Use: Structure that suits the subject of a feature story…
• Use: Features that give a sense of depth and context in a…
• Use: Respect for the production constraints that influenc…
• Use: Media conventions for specific effect (e.g. using ca…

• Use: Classification and compare/contrast
• Use: Features that elucidate/develop the content: paraphr…
• Use: Question and answer (Q & A) structure, including sho…

Unit 8: Exposition: Persuasive Texts

Exposition: Persuasive Texts — the Québec secondary ELA strand, at Secondary Cycle Two, Year 2 (Sec 4) register.

• Use: Texts dealing with personal and social concerns (i.e…
• Use: Reviews (i.e. book and film reviews)

• Use: Humour (e.g. bathos, double-entendre, pun, parody, s…
• Use: Figures of speech (e.g. metonymy, euphemism, oxymoro…
• Use: Figurative language (e.g. imagery, metaphor, simile,…

• Use: ‘luxury and style’, ‘doing good’; emotional appeals…
• Use: Media conventions such as camera language, layout, c…
• Use: Manipulation of familiar codes and conventions for s…
• Use: Introduction that includes: the title and name of pr…
• Use: Content which includes: background on author and con…
• Use: Organizational structure that supports the reviewer’…
• Use: Conclusion which contains a positive, negative or am…
• Use: Conventions to establish credibility (e.g. informal…

Unit 9: Exposition: Argumentative Texts

Exposition: Argumentative Texts — the Québec secondary ELA strand, at Secondary Cycle Two, Year 2 (Sec 4) register.

• Use: Debates, formal and informal

Unit 10: Conventions: Spoken Language

Conventions: Spoken Language — the Québec secondary ELA strand, at Secondary Cycle Two, Year 2 (Sec 4) register.

• Use: Adapts the rethorical aspects of nonverbal language…
• Use: Uses knowledge of affordances of spoken language to…

Unit 11: Conventions: Written Language

Conventions: Written Language — the Québec secondary ELA strand, at Secondary Cycle Two, Year 2 (Sec 4) register.

• Use: Uses active and passive voice to good effect (e.g. u…
• Use: Uses syntax to suit the genre (e.g. compound-complex…
• Use: Uses hyphens, dashes, parentheses, ellipses and brac…
• Use: Uses punctuation to suit the genre (e.g. parentheses…
• Use: Uses appropriate format to cite sources (e.g. Chicag…

• Use: Demonstrates an extensive, varied vocabulary (i.e. d…
• Use: Uses specific vocabulary and/or terminology and/or d…

Unit 12: Conventions: Media Language

Conventions: Media Language — the Québec secondary ELA strand, at Secondary Cycle Two, Year 2 (Sec 4) register.

• Use: Coverage of same action or event by different media…

• Use: Position an intended/target audience (e.g. prime-tim…

• Use: National Geographic in a documentary on whaling)

• Use: Situate viewer/listener in a context (e.g. canned la…
• Use: Add depth and/or dimension to a text (e.g. voiceover…

• Use: Establish continuity (e.g. repetitive use of the col…
• Use: Add depth and/or dimension to a text (e.g. camera sh…
• Use: Explains how symbols and signs connote more or less,…

• Use: Individuals, groups and cultures (e.g. gendered imag…