Unit 2, Section 1 - Introduction

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This unit is organized into two sections:

• Section 1:  Short Story Analysis
• Section 2:  Novel Study

In this section, you will develop  the following skills:

• Self-Reflection —Examine your previous work in the course to determine your strengths and weaknesses and then plan for ways to apply what you have discovered to future work.
  
  
• Reading Literacy—Study a written text and examine what key ideas the text creator is communicating and the tools being used to communicate those key ideas.
  
  
• Evaluating Context —Learn how factors in someone’s environment can affect the way a text is created and how factors in someone’s environment help us understand a person’s words and actions.
  
  
• Writing Literacy—Apply the writing skills you practised in Unit 1, and learn additional strategies such as

• how to incorporate evidence into your writing
• how to make your writing flow (sentence fluency)
• how to write effectively about the literature you are reading

• Diploma Exam Preparation—Learn how to succeed on the Literary Exploration section of your provincial diploma exam.

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