1. How can an author use fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and drama to provide an understanding of self, traditions, and social values?

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ELA A90 Social Identity
Term Marks Reading assignments Writing
assignments Listening and Speaking
assignments Viewing and Representing
assignments Language Cues and Conventions
Quizzes Exams Homework completion
participation Final Mark Reading
assignments Writing assignments Listening
and Speaking assignments Viewing and
Representing assignments Language Cues and
Conventions Quizzes Exams Homework
completion participation Final exam/project
developing an understanding of self, traditions,
social, and Catholic values through the study of
a variety of texts using essential language cues
and conventions while reading, writing,
listening, speaking, viewing, and representing.
1. How can an author use fiction, non-fiction,
poetry, and drama to provide an understanding of
self, traditions, and social values? 2. How can
an understanding of past cultures and present day
beliefs be derived from the study of narratives,
myths, folklore, and legends? 3. How can
literature increase an individuals understanding
of rights, responsibilities, and freedoms and
influence social values? 4. How can an
understanding of Catholic and First Nations
beliefs develop a better social identity? 5. How
can an understanding of ones own personal and
philosophical, and spiritual identity be fostered
by studying literature? 6. How do the elements
of a novel, a short story, and / or a drama
combine to enhance the readers experience? 7.
How can poetry convey meaningful messages that
can affect an individuals thoughts and alter
social view? 8. How can writing effectively
describe, narrate, explain and inform, and
persuade? 9. How is an effective paragraph
written for a particular purpose? 10. How are
language cues and conventions (pragmatic,
syntactic, semantic, graphophonic, and textual)
applied in everyday writing?
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ELA A90 - Social Identity

• Communicate your thoughts
• and ideas
• Accept thoughts and ideas
• of others
• - Participate fully
• Remember, understand, apply,
• analyze, evaluate, create

• Individual adaptations
• - content
• - process
• product
• - learning environment
• - assessment

Course Organizer Reading Strategies
Comprehend Unit Organizer Writing
Strategies Respond Graphic Organizers
Speaking Strategies
Compose Individual Work Listening
Strategies Create Group Work
Viewing Strategies
Assess Portfolios Representing
Strategies Reflect Journals
Fiction Reading
Narrate Pragmatic Self
concept Non-fiction Writing
Describe Textual
Relationships Poetry Speaking
Persuade Syntactic
Imagination Drama Listening
Expose Semantic
Communication Inquiry Viewing
Inform Graphophonic
Technology Representing

Environment
Language Cues and Conventions
Research Skills
All That I Am The Search for Self
Conflicts, Issues, Choices Doing the Right
Thing
Oral Presentation
Paragraphs
Creative Writing
Elements of Literature
Personal and Philosophical
Social, Cultural, and Historical
Indigenous and Norse Narratives
Imaginative and Literary