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Skills available for British Columbia grade 9 English language arts curriculum
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9.CC Curricular Competencies
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9.CC.1 Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing)
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9.CC.1.1 Access information and ideas for diverse purposes and from a variety of sources and evaluate their relevance, accuracy, and reliability
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9.CC.1.2 Apply appropriate strategies to comprehend written, oral, and visual texts, guide inquiry, and extend thinking
- Determine the main idea of a passage (9-A.1)
- Match the quotations with their themes (9-D.1)
- Analyze short stories: set 1 (9-D.2)
- Analyze short stories: set 2 (9-D.3)
- Analyze the development of informational passages: set 1 (9-E.1)
- Analyze the development of informational passages: set 2 (9-E.2)
- Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words (9-P.2)
- Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots (9-P.5)
- Use etymologies to determine the meanings of words (9-R.1)
- Use context as a clue to the meanings of foreign expressions (9-R.2)
- Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context (9-U.1)
- Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context (9-U.2)
- Use context to identify the meaning of a word (9-U.3)
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9.CC.1.3 Synthesize ideas from a variety of sources to build understanding
- Compare passages for subjective and objective tone (9-B.3)
- Compare passages for tone (9-B.4)
- Analyze short stories: set 1 (9-D.2)
- Analyze short stories: set 2 (9-D.3)
- Analyze the development of informational passages: set 1 (9-E.1)
- Analyze the development of informational passages: set 2 (9-E.2)
- Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 1 (9-E.5)
- Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 2 (9-E.6)
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9.CC.1.4 Recognize and appreciate how different features, forms, and genres of texts reflect different purposes, audiences, and messages
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9.CC.1.5 Think critically, creatively, and reflectively to explore ideas within, between, and beyond texts
- Which text is most formal? (9-B.1)
- Identify audience and purpose (9-B.2)
- Compare passages for subjective and objective tone (9-B.3)
- Compare passages for tone (9-B.4)
- Identify the narrative point of view (9-C.1)
- Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source (9-C.2)
- Recall the source of an allusion (9-C.3)
- Interpret figures of speech (9-C.4)
- Classify figures of speech: euphemism, hyperbole, oxymoron, paradox (9-C.5)
- Classify figures of speech: review (9-C.6)
- Match the quotations with their themes (9-D.1)
- Analyze short stories: set 1 (9-D.2)
- Analyze short stories: set 2 (9-D.3)
- Analyze the development of informational passages: set 1 (9-E.1)
- Analyze the development of informational passages: set 2 (9-E.2)
- Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 1 (9-E.5)
- Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 2 (9-E.6)
- Identify appeals to ethos, pathos and logos in advertisements (9-I.1)
- Use appeals to ethos, pathos and logos in persuasive writing (9-I.2)
- Use personification (9-J.1)
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9.CC.1.6 Recognize and identify the role of personal, social, and cultural contexts, values, and perspectives in texts
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9.CC.1.7 Recognize how language constructs personal, social, and cultural identity
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9.CC.1.8 Construct meaningful personal connections between self, text, and world
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9.CC.1.9 Respond to text in personal, creative, and critical ways
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9.CC.1.10 Explain how literary elements, techniques, and devices enhance and shape meaning
- Which text is most formal? (9-B.1)
- Identify audience and purpose (9-B.2)
- Compare passages for subjective and objective tone (9-B.3)
- Compare passages for tone (9-B.4)
- Identify the narrative point of view (9-C.1)
- Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source (9-C.2)
- Recall the source of an allusion (9-C.3)
- Interpret figures of speech (9-C.4)
- Classify figures of speech: euphemism, hyperbole, oxymoron, paradox (9-C.5)
- Classify figures of speech: review (9-C.6)
- Identify appeals to ethos, pathos and logos in advertisements (9-I.1)
- Use appeals to ethos, pathos and logos in persuasive writing (9-I.2)
- Use personification (9-J.1)
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9.CC.1.11 Recognize an increasing range of text structures and how they contribute to meaning
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9.CC.1.12 Recognize and appreciate the role of story, narrative, and oral tradition in expressing First Peoples perspectives, values, beliefs, and points of view
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9.CC.1.13 Develop an awareness of the diversity within and across First Peoples societies represented in texts
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9.CC.1.14 Recognize the influence of place in First Peoples and other Canadian texts
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9.CC.2 Create and communicate (writing, speaking, representing)
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9.CC.2.1 Exchange ideas and viewpoints to build shared understanding and extend thinking
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9.CC.2.2 Use writing and design processes to plan, develop, and create engaging and meaningful literary and informational texts for a variety of purposes and audiences
- Order topics from broadest to narrowest (9-F.1)
- Organize information by main idea (9-F.2)
- Choose the topic sentence that best captures the main idea (9-G.1)
- Identify thesis statements (9-G.2)
- Distinguish facts from opinions (9-H.1)
- Identify stronger and weaker evidence to support a claim (9-H.2)
- Choose the best evidence to support a claim (9-H.3)
- Identify supporting evidence in a text (9-H.4)
- Evaluate counterclaims (9-H.5)
- Choose the analysis that logically connects the evidence to the claim (9-H.6)
- Transition logically between claims, evidence, analysis and counterclaims (9-H.7)
- Understand a Works Cited entry (MLA 8th–9th editions) (9-N.1)
- Recognize the parts of a Works Cited entry (MLA 8th edition) (9-N.2)
- Use in-text citations (MLA 8th–9th editions) (9-N.3)
- Identify plagiarism (9-N.4)
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9.CC.2.3 Assess and refine texts to improve their clarity, effectiveness, and impact according to purpose, audience, and message
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9.CC.2.4 Use an increasing repertoire of conventions of Canadian spelling, grammar, and punctuation
- Use dictionary entries (9-V.1)
- Use dictionary definitions (9-V.2)
- Use thesaurus entries (9-V.4)
- What does the punctuation suggest? (9-GG.1)
- Commas with nonrestrictive elements (9-GG.2)
- Commas with direct addresses, introductory words, interjections, interrupters and antithetical phrases (9-HH.1)
- Commas with compound and complex sentences (9-HH.2)
- Commas with coordinate adjectives (9-HH.3)
- Use semicolons and commas to separate clauses (9-II.1)
- Use semicolons, colons and commas with lists (9-II.2)
- Semicolons, colons and commas: review (9-II.3)
- Use dashes (9-JJ.1)
- Use hyphens in compound adjectives (9-JJ.2)
- Decide whether ellipses are used appropriately (9-JJ.3)
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9.CC.2.5 Use and experiment with oral storytelling processes
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9.CC.2.6 Select and use appropriate features, forms, and genres according to audience, purpose, and message
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9.CC.2.7 Transform ideas and information to create original texts
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9.CC.2.8 Express an opinion and support it with credible evidence
- Identify thesis statements (9-G.2)
- Distinguish facts from opinions (9-H.1)
- Identify stronger and weaker evidence to support a claim (9-H.2)
- Choose the best evidence to support a claim (9-H.3)
- Identify supporting evidence in a text (9-H.4)
- Evaluate counterclaims (9-H.5)
- Choose the analysis that logically connects the evidence to the claim (9-H.6)
- Transition logically between claims, evidence, analysis and counterclaims (9-H.7)
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9.C Content
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9.C.1 Story/text
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9.C.1.1 forms, functions, and genres of text
- Analyze short stories: set 1 (9-D.2)
- Analyze short stories: set 2 (9-D.3)
- Analyze the development of informational passages: set 1 (9-E.1)
- Analyze the development of informational passages: set 2 (9-E.2)
- Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 1 (9-E.5)
- Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 2 (9-E.6)
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9.C.1.2 text features
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9.C.1.3 literary elements
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9.C.1.4 literary devices
- Identify the narrative point of view (9-C.1)
- Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source (9-C.2)
- Recall the source of an allusion (9-C.3)
- Interpret figures of speech (9-C.4)
- Classify figures of speech: euphemism, hyperbole, oxymoron, paradox (9-C.5)
- Classify figures of speech: review (9-C.6)
- Identify appeals to ethos, pathos and logos in advertisements (9-I.1)
- Use appeals to ethos, pathos and logos in persuasive writing (9-I.2)
- Use personification (9-J.1)
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9.C.1.5 elements of visual/graphic texts
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9.C.2 Strategies and processes
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9.C.2.1 reading strategies
- Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words (9-P.2)
- Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots (9-P.5)
- Use etymologies to determine the meanings of words (9-R.1)
- Use context as a clue to the meanings of foreign expressions (9-R.2)
- Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context (9-U.1)
- Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context (9-U.2)
- Use context to identify the meaning of a word (9-U.3)
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9.C.2.2 oral language strategies
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9.C.2.3 metacognitive strategies
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9.C.2.4 writing processes
- Determine the main idea of a passage (9-A.1)
- Order topics from broadest to narrowest (9-F.1)
- Organize information by main idea (9-F.2)
- Choose the topic sentence that best captures the main idea (9-G.1)
- Identify thesis statements (9-G.2)
- Distinguish facts from opinions (9-H.1)
- Identify stronger and weaker evidence to support a claim (9-H.2)
- Choose the best evidence to support a claim (9-H.3)
- Identify supporting evidence in a text (9-H.4)
- Evaluate counterclaims (9-H.5)
- Choose the analysis that logically connects the evidence to the claim (9-H.6)
- Transition logically between claims, evidence, analysis and counterclaims (9-H.7)
- Remove redundant words or phrases (9-K.5)
- Identify and correct errors with frequently confused words (9-M.2)
- Identify and correct errors with frequently confused pronouns and contractions (9-M.3)
- Correct errors with commonly misspelled words (9-M.4)
- Suggest appropriate revisions (9-M.7)
- Understand a Works Cited entry (MLA 8th–9th editions) (9-N.1)
- Recognize the parts of a Works Cited entry (MLA 8th edition) (9-N.2)
- Use in-text citations (MLA 8th–9th editions) (9-N.3)
- Identify plagiarism (9-N.4)
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9.C.3 Language features, structures, and conventions
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9.C.3.1 features of oral language
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9.C.3.2 multi-paragraphing
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9.C.3.3 language change
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9.C.3.4 elements of style
- Which text is most formal? (9-B.1)
- Compare passages for subjective and objective tone (9-B.3)
- Compare passages for tone (9-B.4)
- Identify the narrative point of view (9-C.1)
- Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source (9-C.2)
- Recall the source of an allusion (9-C.3)
- Interpret figures of speech (9-C.4)
- Classify figures of speech: euphemism, hyperbole, oxymoron, paradox (9-C.5)
- Classify figures of speech: review (9-C.6)
- Identify appeals to ethos, pathos and logos in advertisements (9-I.1)
- Use appeals to ethos, pathos and logos in persuasive writing (9-I.2)
- Use personification (9-J.1)
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9.C.3.5 usage
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9.C.3.6 syntax and sentence fluency
- Transitions with conjunctive adverbs (9-K.1)
- Avoid double, illogical and unclear comparisons (9-K.2)
- Identify sentences with parallel structure (9-K.3)
- Use parallel structure (9-K.4)
- Identify sentence fragments (9-W.2)
- Identify run-on sentences (9-W.3)
- Choose punctuation to avoid fragments and run-ons (9-W.4)
- Is it a phrase or a clause? (9-X.1)
- Identify dependent and independent clauses (9-X.4)
- Is the sentence simple, compound, complex or compound-complex? (9-X.5)
- Combine sentences using relative clauses (9-X.6)
- Use the correct pair of correlative conjunctions (9-EE.1)
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9.C.3.7 conventions
- Use dictionary entries (9-V.1)
- Use dictionary definitions (9-V.2)
- Use thesaurus entries (9-V.4)
- What does the punctuation suggest? (9-GG.1)
- Commas with nonrestrictive elements (9-GG.2)
- Commas with direct addresses, introductory words, interjections, interrupters and antithetical phrases (9-HH.1)
- Commas with compound and complex sentences (9-HH.2)
- Commas with coordinate adjectives (9-HH.3)
- Use semicolons and commas to separate clauses (9-II.1)
- Use semicolons, colons and commas with lists (9-II.2)
- Semicolons, colons and commas: review (9-II.3)
- Use dashes (9-JJ.1)
- Use hyphens in compound adjectives (9-JJ.2)
- Decide whether ellipses are used appropriately (9-JJ.3)
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9.C.3.8 presentation techniques
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9.C.3.9 rhetorical devices
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9.C.3.10 connotation and denotation
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