Prince Edward Island

4 Students will be expected to select, read, and view with understanding a range of literature, information, media, and visual texts.

• select texts to support their learning needs and range of special interests

• read widely and experience a variety of literary genres and modes from different provinces and countries, and world literature from different literary periods

• articulate their understanding of ways in which information texts are constructed for particular purposes

  • Which text is most formal? (12-B.1)
  • Identify audience and purpose (12-B.3)
  • Compare passages for tone (12-B.4)
  • Identify appeals to ethos, pathos and logos in advertisements (12-I.1)

• use the cueing systems and a variety of strategies to construct meaning in reading and viewing complex and sophisticated print and media texts

  • Compare passages for tone (12-B.4)
  • Identify the narrative point of view (12-C.1)
  • Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source (12-C.2)
  • Recall the source of an allusion (12-C.3)
  • Interpret the figure of speech (12-C.4)
  • Identify supporting evidence in a text (12-H.4)
  • Prefixes (12-M.1)
  • Suffixes (12-M.2)
  • Word pattern analogies (12-M.3)
  • Word pattern sentences (12-M.4)
  • Sort words by shared Greek or Latin roots (12-N.1)
  • Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words (12-N.2)
  • Use words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots (12-N.3)
  • Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots (12-N.4)
  • Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots (12-N.5)
  • Use etymologies to determine the meanings of words (12-P.1)
  • Use context as a clue to the meanings of foreign expressions (12-P.2)
  • Analogies (12-R.1)
  • Analogies: challenge (12-R.2)
  • Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context (12-S.1)
  • Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context (12-S.2)
  • Domain-specific vocabulary in context: science and technical subjects (12-S.4)

• articulate their own processes and strategies in exploring, interpreting, and reflecting on sophisticated texts and tasks

5 Students will be expected to interpret, select, and combine information, using a variety of strategies, resources, and technologies.

• access, select, and research, in systematic ways, specific information to meet personal and individual learning needs

  • use the electronic network and other sources of information, in ways characterized by complexity of purpose, procedure, or subject matter

  • evaluate their research processes

6 Students will be expected to respond personally to a range of texts.

• make informed personal responses to increasingly challenging print and media texts and reflect on their responses

  • make connections between their own values, beliefs, and cultures and those reflected in literary and media texts

  • analyse thematic connections among texts and articulate an understanding of the universality of many themes

  • demonstrate a willingness to explore diverse perspectives to develop or modify their points of view

• articulate and justify points of view about texts and text elements

  • interpret ambiguities in complex and sophisticated texts

7 Students will be expected to respond critically to a range of texts, applying their understanding of language, form, and genre.

• critically evaluate the information they access

  • Distinguish facts from opinions (12-H.1)
  • Identify supporting evidence in a text (12-H.4)
  • Identify appeals to ethos, pathos and logos in advertisements (12-I.1)

• show the relationships among language, topic, purpose, context, and audience

  • note the relationship of specific elements of a particular text to elements of other texts

    • Compare passages for tone (12-B.4)
    • Recall the source of an allusion (12-C.3)

  • describe, discuss, and evaluate the language, ideas, and other significant characteristics of a variety of texts and genres

    • Which text is most formal? (12-B.1)
    • Compare passages for tone (12-B.4)
    • Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source (12-C.2)
    • Recall the source of an allusion (12-C.3)
    • Interpret the figure of speech (12-C.4)
    • Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone (12-C.8)
    • Identify appeals to ethos, pathos and logos in advertisements (12-I.1)

• respond critically to complex and sophisticated texts

  • examine how texts work to reveal and produce ideologies, identities, and positions

    • Identify supporting evidence in a text (12-H.4)

  • examine how media texts construct notions of roles, behaviour, culture, and reality

  • examine how textual features help a reader and viewer to create meaning of the texts

    • Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone (12-C.8)