Curricular Competencies: 

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• Demonstrate awareness of how First Peoples languages and texts reflect their cultures, knowledge, histories, and worldviews 

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• Recognize and understand how different forms, formats, structures, and features  
  of texts reflect a variety of purposes, audiences, and messages 

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• Recognize and identify personal, social, and cultural contexts, values, and perspectives in texts, including gender, sexual orientation, and socio-economic factors 

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• Demonstrate understanding of how language constructs and reflects personal, social, and cultural identities 

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

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

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

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• Select and apply appropriate oral communication formats for intended purposes 

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• Experiment with genres, forms, or styles of texts 

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• Transform ideas and information to create original texts, using various genres,  
  forms, structures, and styles