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Unit 1 Objectives: Speaking Listening
 * 1) Recognize that talk is an important tool for communicating, thinking, and learning.
 * 2) Practise the behaviours of effective speakers
 * 3) Speak fluently and confidently in a variety of situations for a variety of purposes and audiences.
 * Speak to express understanding
 * Speak to share thoughts and opinions
 * Organize information, thoughts, and opinions in an appropriate format
 * Summarize main points and conclusions, Participate in small and large group discussions, observing the courtesies of group discussion, Speak to inform and persuade
 * 1) Recognize listening as an active, constructive process
 * 2) Practise the behaviours of effective listeners
 * 3) Listen effectively in a variety of situations for a variety of purposes.
 * Recognize listening as an active process that requires listeners to:
 * anticipate a message and set a purpose
 * attend
 * seek and check understanding by making connections, and making and confirming predictions and inferences
 * interpret and summarize
 * evaluate and analyze
 * Respond personally, critically, and creatively
 * Listen for personal pleasure and aesthetic satisfaction
 * Listen to understand and learn
 * Listen to analyze and evaluate

Writing
 * 1) Recognize writing as a constructive and recursive process
 * 2) Practise the behaviours of effective writers.
 * 3) Write fluently and confidently for a variety of purposes and audiences.
 * Recognize writing as a process of constructing meaning for self and others
 * Use the writing process
 * Use appropriate pre-writing and planning strategies
 * Develop ideas previously explored into draft form
 * Revise compositions
 * Share/present compositions
 * State a topic sentence clearly and limit the content to pertinent material
 * Develop ideas rather than just restating them
 * Use various methods of development and organization (e.g., chronological, spatial, and logical) appropriate to purpose
 * Demonstrate the ability to organize thought coherently using transition words
 * Compose suitable endings
 * Develop effective paragraphs in narrative, expository, descriptive, and persuasive prose
 * Write for a variety of purposes including to:
 * reflect, clarify, and explore ideas
 * express understanding
 * describe, narrate, inform, and persuade

Reading
 * 1) Recognize reading as an active, constructive process.
 * 2) Practise the behaviours of effective strategic readers.
 * 3) Read a variety of texts for a variety of purposes.
 * Recognize that reading is an active process which requires readers to:
 * make connections
 * find meaning
 * make and confirm predictions
 * make and confirm inferences
 * reflect and evaluate
 * Recognize common allusions and discuss their significance in context
 * Recognize common literary symbols
 * Recognize stylistic devices and techniques such as characterization, flashback, foreshadowing, simile, metaphor, hyperbole
 * Summarize information read
 * Relate literary experience to personal experience
 * Read a wide range of material for personal enjoyment and extension of experience
 * Explore human experience and values
 * Identify and assess ideas and values against ideas in text
 * Read to stimulate imagination