Module 1 Outcomes

Students will know…

  • Personal context impacts text meaning (2.1.1 d)
  • Textual elements and stylistic techniques contribute to the creation of atmosphere, tone and voice (2.2.2 b)
  • Text creators employ strategies to accomplish their purpose and engage their audience (4.1.1 b)
  • Oral, print, visual and multimedia text forms employ conventions specific to each genre (4.1.2 d)

Students will be able to…

  • Assess the potential understandings, interpretations and positions on ideas and issues communicated by literature and other texts by connecting own and others’ explorations, and by exploring additional aspects of these texts (1.1.1 b)
  • Compare own ideas, perspectives and interpretations with those of others, through a variety of means, to expand perceptions and understandings when exploring and responding to texts (1.2.1 b)
  • Use a variety of strategies to comprehend literature and other texts [for example, reading passages out loud, forming questions, making predictions, using context to determine the connotative meanings of words, using graphic organizers and making annotations], and develop strategies for close reading of literature in order to understand contextual elements [for example, understanding subtext] (2.1.2 a)
  • Describe how supporting ideas and supporting details strengthen a text’s controlling idea (2.1.2 b)
  • Describe the relationships among plot, setting, character, atmosphere and theme when studying a narrative (2.1.2 c)
  • Compare the personality traits, roles, relationships, motivations, attitudes, values and archetypal qualities, when appropriate, of characters developed/persons presented in literature and other texts (2.1.2 d)
  • Describe a text creator’s tone and register; and identify the moral and ethical stance communicated by a text (2.1.2 e)
  • Interpret figurative language, symbol and allusions; recognize imagery; and explain how imagery contributes to atmosphere, characterization and theme in a text (2.1.2 f)
  • Analyze and assess settings and plots in terms of created reality and plausibility [for example, determine the authenticity of the setting of a work of historical fiction] (2.3.2 c)
  • Analyze and assess character and characterization in terms of consistency of behaviour, motivation and plausibility, and in terms of contribution to theme [for example, determine the meanings suggested by a change in a character’s behaviour or values] (2.3.2 d)
  • Assess the significance of a text’s theme or controlling idea, and the adequacy, relevance and effectiveness of its supporting details, examples or illustrations, and content in general (2.3.2 f)