Students who work with Poetry In Voice/Les voix de la poésie’s materials can meet many of the requirements for English 9-12.
BC Curriculum
English Language Arts Grades 9-12
Connections to Overall Expectations
Oral Language (Speaking and Listening)
Purposes
- interact and collaborate in pairs and groups
- express ideas and information in a variety of ways
- listen to comprehend, interpret, and evaluate ideas and information from a variety of texts
Strategies
- select, adapt and apply a range of strategies to interact and collaborate with others in pairs and groups
- select, adapt, and apply a range of strategies to prepare oral communications
- select and use a range of strategies to express ideas and information in oral communications
- use listening strategies to understand, recall, and analyse a variety of texts
Thinking
- speak and listen to make personal responses to texts
- speak and listen to interpret, analyse, and evaluate ideas and information from texts
- speak and listen to synthesize and extend thinking
- use metacognitive strategies to reflect on and assess their speaking and listening
Features
- recognize and apply the structures of oral language to convey and derive meaning
Reading and Viewing
Purposes
- read, both collaboratively and independently, to comprehend a variety of literary texts
- view, both collaboratively and independently, to comprehend a variety of visual texts
Strategies
- before reading and viewing, select, adapt, and apply a range of strategies to anticipate content and construct meaning
- during reading and viewing, select and use a variety of strategies to construct, moniitor, and confirm meaning
Thinking
- explain and support personal responses to texts
- synthesize and extend thinking about texts
- use metacognitive strategies to reflect on and assess their reading and viewing
Features
- write meaningful personal texts
- write purposeful information texts that express ideas and information
Writing and Representing
Purposes
- create thoughtful representations that communicate ideas and information
- Write meaningful personal texts that elaborate on ideas and information
- Create thoughtful representations that communicate ideas and information
Thinking
- write and represent to explain and support personal responses to texts
- write and represent to synthesize and extend thinking
- use metacognitive strategies to reflect on and assess their writing and representing