Film and Photography Basics

• Composition 10: 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; 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; Respectfully exchange ideas and viewpoints from diverse perspectives to build shared understanding and extend thinking; Express and support an opinion with evidence; Use the conventions of Canadian spelling, grammar, and punctuation proficiently and as appropriate to the context. • New Media 10: 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; 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; Respectfully exchange ideas and viewpoints from diverse perspectives to build shared understanding and extend thinking; Express and support an opinion with evidence; Use the conventions of Canadian spelling, grammar, and punctuation proficiently and as appropriate to the context. • Composition 11: Apply appropriate strategies in a variety of contexts to comprehend written, oral, visual, and multimodal texts, to guide inquiry, and to extend thinking; Recognize and understand 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; Respectfully exchange ideas and viewpoints from diverse perspectives to build shared understandings and extend thinking; Express and support an opinion with evidence; Use the conventions of Canadian spelling, grammar, and punctuation proficiently and as appropriate to the context; Transform ideas and information to create original texts, using various genres, forms, structures, and styles; Experiment with genres, forms, or styles of creative and communicative texts. • New Media 11: Apply appropriate strategies in a variety of contexts to comprehend written, oral, visual, and multimodal texts, to guide inquiry and to extend thinking; Recognize and appreciate how various forms, formats, 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; Evaluate how literary elements and new media techniques and devices reflect different purposes and audiences; Respectfully exchange ideas and viewpoints from diverse perspectives to build shared understandings and extend thinking; Express and support an opinion with evidence; Use the conventions of Canadian spelling, grammar, and punctuation proficiently and as appropriate to the context; Transform ideas and information to create original texts, using various genres, forms, structures, and styles. • Composition 12: Select and apply appropriate strategies in a variety of contexts to comprehend written, oral, visual, and multimodal texts, to guide inquiry, and to transform thinking; Understand and appreciate how different forms, formats, structures, and features of texts reflect a variety of purposes, audiences, and messages; Evaluate how literary elements, techniques, and devices enhance and shape meaning and impact; Respectfully exchange ideas and viewpoints from diverse perspectives to build shared understanding and transform thinking; Express and support an opinion with evidence to achieve purpose; Use the conventions of Canadian spelling, grammar, and punctuation proficiently and as appropriate to the context; Transform ideas and information to create original texts, using various genres, forms, structures, and styles. • English Studies 12: Select and apply appropriate strategies in a variety of contexts to comprehend written, oral, visual, and multimodal texts, to guide inquiry, and to extend thinking; Understand and appreciate how different forms, formats, structures, and features of texts reflect a variety of purposes, audiences, and messages; Evaluate how literary elements, techniques, and devices enhance and shape meaning and impact; Respectfully exchange ideas and viewpoints from diverse perspectives to build shared understanding and extend thinking; Express and support an opinion with evidence; Use the conventions of Canadian spelling, grammar, and punctuation proficiently and as appropriate to the context; Transform ideas and information to create original texts, using various genres, forms, structures, and styles. • New Media 12: Select and apply appropriate strategies in a variety of contexts to comprehend written, oral, visual, and multimodal texts, to guide inquiry, and to transform thinking; Recognize and understand how different forms, formats, structures, and features of texts reflect a variety of purposes, audiences, and messages; Evaluate how literary elements as well as specific new media techniques and devices enhance and shape meaning and impact; Respectfully exchange ideas and viewpoints from diverse perspectives to build shared understanding and transform thinking; Express and support an opinion with evidence to achieve purpose; Use the conventions of Canadian spelling, grammar, and punctuation proficiently and as appropriate to the context; Transform ideas and information to create original texts, using various genres, forms, structures, and styles.

• English Language Arts 10-1: Generate and experiment with strategies that contribute to forming tentative understandings, interpretations and positions; Experiment with language, image and structure; Identify own ideas, perspectives and interpretations and evaluate them for depth of explanation, evidence or support; and consider the ideas, perspectives and interpretations of others to broaden own understandings when exploring and responding to texts; Recognize the use of elements of effective oral, visual and multimedia presentations and describe their effects; Take ownership of text creation, by selecting or crafting a topic, concept or idea that is personally meaningful and engaging; Analyze and describe language and images used in literature and other texts to convey respectful and considerate, or disrespectful and inconsiderate, perspectives and attitudes. • English Language Arts 20-1: Generate and experiment with strategies that contribute to forming tentative understandings, interpretations and positions; Experiment with language, image and structure; Analyze and assess images in print and nonprint texts in terms of created reality and appropriateness to purpose and audience; Describe the effectiveness of various texts, including media texts, for presenting feelings, ideas and information, and for evoking response; Select a text form appropriate to the purpose for text creation and consistent with the content to be presented in the text; Take ownership of text creation, by selecting or crafting a topic, concept or idea that is personally meaningful and engaging; Use language and image to honour own and others' accomplishments. • English Language Arts 30-1: Form tentative understandings, interpretations and positions draw from a repertoire of effective strategies to form tentative understandings, interpretations and positions; Understand the concept of convention; and apply it to oral, print, visual and multimedia text forms when appropriate; Analyze and assess images in print and nonprint texts in terms of created reality and appropriateness to purpose and audience; Select a text form appropriate to the purpose for text creation and consistent with the content to be presented in the text; Take ownership of text creation, by selecting or crafting a topic, concept or idea that is personally meaningful and engaging; Use language and image to honour own and others' accomplishments.