English Language Arts, Secondary 5

Unit 1: Reading Process: Interpreting Texts

Reading Process: Interpreting Texts — the Québec secondary ELA strand, at Secondary Cycle Two, Year 3 (Sec 5) register.

• Use: Known characteristics of a closed narrative text (e.…
• Use: Known characteristics of an open narrative text (e.g…

• Use: Connects significant facts/information in relation t…
• Use: Analyzes implications and/or impact and/or influence…
• Use: Identifies dominant discourses and how they shape th…

• Use: Establishes interrelationships between the structure…

• Use: Compares/contrasts own ideas, values and beliefs wit…
• Use: Analyzes how readers are positioned or situated by t…

Unit 2: Production Process

Production Process — the Québec secondary ELA strand, at Secondary Cycle Two, Year 3 (Sec 5) register.

• Use: Distant but known audience, conceptually appropriate…

• Use: Distance between self as writer/producer, topic, pur…

• Use: Looks into issues of ownership, property and privacy…

• Use: Transforms the information from one mode or medium t…

Unit 3: Research Process

Research Process — the Québec secondary ELA strand, at Secondary Cycle Two, Year 3 (Sec 5) register.

• Use: Uses ethnography to study a social world relevant to…

• Use: Adopts a stance that promotes the smooth development…

Unit 4: Required Genres: Narrative Texts

Required Genres: Narrative Texts — the Québec secondary ELA strand, at Secondary Cycle Two, Year 3 (Sec 5) register.

• Use: Written for adults and reflecting the variety of tex…

• Use: (Reading only) Structural irony (i.e. a double meani…

• Use: Recurring motifs, concepts, and other patterns

• Use: Irony (e.g. situational, dramatic)
• Use: Satire
• Use: Conventions of specific literary genres (e.g. use of…
• Use: Conventions of specific text types (e.g. use of gutt…
• Use: Multigenre conventions (e.g. journal entries in a no…
• Use: (Reading only) Multimodal conventions (e.g. use of t…

Unit 5: Required Genres: Reports

Required Genres: Reports — the Québec secondary ELA strand, at Secondary Cycle Two, Year 3 (Sec 5) register.

• Use: Multigenre conventions (e.g. use of case studies in…
• Use: Multimodal conventions (e.g. video clips or still im…

• Use: Conventions that establish authority and expertise (…
• Use: Rhetorical strategies to construct a relationship wi…

Unit 6: Exposition: Persuasive Texts

Exposition: Persuasive Texts — the Québec secondary ELA strand, at Secondary Cycle Two, Year 3 (Sec 5) register.

• Use: Speeches (e.g. pitch an ad campaign, book talk)
• Use: Essays dealing with personal and social concerns (e.…

• Use: Persuasive language such as connotation, loaded word…
• Use: Respect for production constraints that influence th…
• Use: Rhetorical strategies such as anticipating and addre…
• Use: Multigenre conventions (e.g. use of melodrama in a s…
• Use: Multimodal conventions (e.g. sound of grasshoppers t…

• Use: Transformation of ideas/concept from one mode/medium…
• Use: Thesis/controlling idea (i.e. thesis statement)
• Use: Introduction with an engaging lead and an elaboratio…
• Use: Evidence organized as points in a logical sequence (…
• Use: Use of a variety of strategies to prove/illustrate p…
• Use: Conclusion which convinces reader either to behave (…

Unit 7: Exposition: Argumentative Texts

Exposition: Argumentative Texts — the Québec secondary ELA strand, at Secondary Cycle Two, Year 3 (Sec 5) register.

• Use: Texts dealing with personal and social concerns, suc…
• Use: Essays dealing with issues/topics arising from liter…
• Use: Texts dealing with personal and social concerns (e.g…
• Use: Essays dealing with issues arising from literature (…

• Use: Rhetorical strategies to engage and convince reader…
• Use: Conventions to establish credibility and authority s…
• Use: Conventions which establish relationships between id…
• Use: Multigenre conventions (e.g. use of personal narrati…
• Use: Multimodal conventions (e.g. video clips of recent n…
• Use: Use of a procedure such as Parliamentary procedure
• Use: Basic structure: opening statement of the issue and…
• Use: Rhetorical strategies to address and/or distract opp…
• Use: Spoken conventions such as intonation patterns, paus…
• Use: Introduction which includes a lead, an elaboration o…
• Use: Evidence organized as points in a logical sequence (…
• Use: Conventions to establish a sense of unity and cohere…
• Use: Conclusion which wraps up the argument by: generaliz…
• Use: Proper citation(s) of reference material (e.g. ellip…
• Use: Focus on current issues and events in the news
• Use: Introduction which situates issue within a local and…
• Use: Stance/role of editor is consistent with the ideolog…
• Use: Respect for production constraints that influence th…

Unit 8: Conventions: Media Language

Conventions: Media Language — the Québec secondary ELA strand, at Secondary Cycle Two, Year 3 (Sec 5) register.

• Use: Establish relevance (i.e. image/word/sound coexist a…

• Use: Values, beliefs, ideologies (e.g. a close-up of a sl…