The following curricular outcomes will be demonstrated:

2.2 Respond to Texts: Experience various texts

• discuss how techniques, such as colour, shape, composition, suspense, foreshadowing and flashback, are used to communicate meaning and enhance effects in oral, print and other media texts

2.3 Understand Forms, Elements and Techniques

• discuss connections among plot and subplot, main and supporting characters, main idea and theme in a variety of oral, print and other media texts

• identify and explain how narrative hooks, foreshadowing, flashback, suspense and surprise endings contribute to the effectiveness of plot development

2.4 Create Original Text

• choose appropriate strategies for generating ideas and focusing topics for oral, print and other media texts

• use suspense, exaggeration, foreshadowing, dialogue and description to show rising action and develop conflict

• create oral, print and other media texts that are unified by point of view, carefully developed plot and endings consistent with previous events

3.3 Organize, Record and Evaluate

• make notes, using headings and subheadings or graphic organizers appropriate to a topic; reference sources

4. Enhance and Improve

• revise introductions, conclusions and the order of ideas and information to add coherence and clarify the meaning

• revise to eliminate unnecessary repetition of words and ideas

• use paragraphs, appropriately, to organize narrative and expository texts

• use periods and commas with quotation marks that indicate direct speech in own writing

• use commas to separate phrases and clauses in own writing