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There have been changes to the English Language Arts curriculum.

Students must two 2-credit courses in English 10 and two more in English 11.  Then students must complete either English 12 or English First Peoples 12.  

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Curricular Competencies: These are fairly similar throughout the grades, but more sophisticated in higher grades.  Since the focus of the course is the skills students are to develop from the curricular competencies, these are the place for teachers to focus their planning.  For examples, these are the curricular competencies/learning standards for English 10 (Composition):

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Using oral, written, visual, and digital texts, students are expected individually and collaboratively to be able to:

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Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing)

• Read for enjoyment and to achieve personal goals

• Recognize and appreciate the role of story, narrative, and oral tradition in expressing First

• Peoples perspectives, values, beliefs, and points of view

• Recognize the diversity within and across First Peoples societies represented in texts

• Recognize the influence of place in First Peoples and Canadian texts

• Access information for diverse purposes and from a variety of sources and evaluate its relevance, accuracy, and reliability

• Apply appropriate strategies in a variety of contexts to comprehend written, oral, visual, and multimodal texts; guide inquiry; and extend thinking

• Synthesize ideas from a variety of texts/sources

• Recognize and appreciate how various forms, structures, and features of texts reflect a variety of purposes, audiences, and messages

• Think critically, creatively, and reflectively to explore ideas within, between, and beyond texts

• Recognize and identify the role of personal, social, and cultural contexts, values, and perspectives in texts

• Recognize how language constructs personal, social, and cultural identity

• Construct meaningful personal connections between self, text, and world.

• Respond to text in personal, creative, and critical ways

• Evaluate how literary elements, techniques, and devices enhance and shape meaning and impact

• Recognize an increasing range of text structures and how they contribute to meaning

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Create and communicate (writing, speaking, representing)

• Respectfully exchange ideas and viewpoints from diverse perspectives to build shared understanding and extend thinking

• Demonstrate speaking and listening skills in a variety of formal and informal contexts for a range of purposes

• Use writing and design processes to plan, develop, and create engaging and meaningful literary, imaginative, and informational texts for a variety of purposes and audiences

• Express and support an opinion with credible evidence

• Reflect on, assess, and refine texts to improve their clarity, effectiveness, and impact according to purpose, audience, and message

• Use the conventions of Canadian spelling, grammar, and punctuation proficiently and as appropriate to the context

• Use acknowledgements and citations to recognize intellectual property rights

• Transform ideas and information to create original texts, using new or unfamiliar genres,forms, structures, and styles

• Use the writer’s craft and demonstrate skills characteristic of writers