Module 1

• The exploration of text and story deepens our understanding of diverse, complex ideas about identity, others, and the world.

• Texts are socially, culturally, geographically, and historically constructed.

• Language shapes ideas and influences others.

Module 2 & Inquiry Project

• The exploration of text and story deepens our understanding of diverse, complex ideas about identity, others, and the world.

• People understand text differently depending on their world views and perspectives.

• Texts are socially, culturally, geographically, and historically constructed.

• Language shapes ideas and influences others.

• Digital Citizens have rights and responsibilities in an increasingly globalized society.

Module 1

students will read, listen and view to:

• Explore diversity among First Peoples cultures, as represented in new media and other texts

• Apply appropriate strategies to comprehend written, oral, visual, and multimodal texts

• Recognize and appreciate how different forms, formats, structures, and features of texts enhance and shape meaning and impact

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

• Explore how language constructs personal and social identities

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

• Identify bias, contradictions, and distortions

students will write, speak, and represent to:

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

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

• Assess and refine texts to improve clarity and impact

• Use the writing and design process to plan, develop, and create engaging and meaningful texts for a variety of purposes and audiences

• Use digital media to collaborate and communicate both within the classroom and beyond its walls

• Express and support an opinion with evidence

• Use acknowledgements and citations to recognize intellectual property rights

• Transform ideas and information to create original texts

Module 2 & Inquiry Project

students will read, listen and view to:

• Recognize the complexities of digital citizenship

• Access information for diverse purposes and from a variety of sources to inform writing

• Apply appropriate strategies to comprehend written, oral, visual, and multimodal texts.

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

• Explore how language constructs personal and social identities

• Identify bias, contradictions, and distortions.

students will write, speak, and represent to:

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

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

• Assess and refine texts to improve clarity and impact

• Use the writing and design process to plan, develop, and create engaging and meaningful texts for a variety of purposes and audiences

• Use digital media to collaborate and communicate both within the classroom and beyond its walls

• Express and support an opinion with evidence

• Use acknowledgements and citations to recognize intellectual property rights

• Transform ideas and information to create original texts