Sample Units
English Language Arts B10 Sample Unit:
Equality--Pain and Pride
Unit Objectives
Planning and resource selection are determined by the foundational and learning objectives for English language arts. After the teacher has selected two units for study, the specific learning objectives designated for B10 are divided between the two units. It is understood that the learning objectives not addressed in this sample unit would be addressed in the second unit chosen by the teacher.
Throughout this unit, the following symbols are used to refer to the Common Essential Learnings (C.E.L.s):
COM
CCT
IL
PSVS
TL
NUM |
Communication
Critical and Creative Thinking
Independent Learning
Personal and Social Values and Skills
Technological Literacy
Numeracy |
Many of the objectives for English language arts also develop knowledge, skills and processes related to the C.E.L.s of Communication, Critical and Creative Thinking, and Independent Learning. Where appropriate, objectives related to the C.E.L.s are explicitly stated in the sample unit to provide direction for teachers. Emphasis on particular C.E.L.s does not preclude the development of other Common Essential Learnings.
The Common Essential Learnings and several objectives addressed in this unit will require emphasis in both units of the English Language Arts B10 course. For example, the writing process and the behaviours of good speakers, listeners, and readers must receive attention, development, and extension in both units.
The following objectives were selected for this sample unit. Foundational objectives are identified by the symbol FO.
Oracy
Speaking
Students will:
- recognize that talk is an important tool for communicating, thinking, and learning (FO)
- practise the behaviours of effective speakers (FO)
- organize information, thoughts, and opinions in an appropriate format
- speak to clarify and extend thinking
- speak to share thoughts and opinions
- speak to express understanding
- participate in small and large group discussions, observing the courtesies of group discussion
- summarize main points and conclusions
- express own response to a story, poem, play, event, or experience
- prepare a dramatic reading.
Listening
Students will:
- recognize listening as an active constructive, process (FO)
- anticipate a message and set a purpose
- attend
- seek and check understanding by making connections, and making and confirming predictions, and inferences
- interpret and summarize
- evaluate and analyze
- practise the behaviours of effective listeners (FO)
- follow oral directions
- summarize and make notes from a presentation
- distinguish between fact and opinion
- analyze the overall effectiveness of group discussions
- practise the behaviours of effective viewers
Literacy
Writing
Students will:
- practise the behaviours of effective writers (FO)
- use the writing process
- write for a variety of purposes
- reflect, clarify, and explore ideas
- express understanding
- describe, narrate, inform, and persuade
- develop effective paragraphs
- state a topic sentence clearly and limit the content to pertinent material
- develop ideas rather than just restating them
- use various methods of development and organization appropriate to purpose
- compose suitable endings
- organize ideas in multi-paragraph compositions
- analyze and evaluate their own and others' writing for ideas, organization, sentence clarity, word choice, and mechanics
- write a paraphrase and summary of a speech heard or a passage read
- write a convincing argument in support of a clearly defined position
- write business letters in language appropriate for purpose and audience
- write a film review.
Reading
Students will:
- recognize that reading is an active, constructive process (FO)
- make connections
- find meaning
- make and confirm predictions
- make and confirm inferences
- reflect and evaluate
- distinguish the characteristic differences among prose (fiction and nonfiction), poetry, and plays
- relate literary experience to personal experience
- read a variety of texts for a variety of purposes (FO)
- identify and assess ideas and values against ideas in text
- assess an author's ideas and techniques
- summarize information read
- differentiate fact from opinion
- recognize stereotyping
- recognize propaganda techniques.