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What? Deciphering Shakespeare’s Language

An education program presented by the Greater Victoria Shakespeare Festival
November 2018

CONNECTIONS TO THE BC EDUCATION CURRICULUM

Core Competencies:
• Communication
• Thinking
• Personal & social

Big Ideas:
• Developing our understanding of how language works allows us to use it
purposefully. (ELA 7)
• Exploring stories and other texts helps us understand ourselves and make
connections to others and to the world. (ELA 7)
• Language and story can be a source of creativity and joy. (ELA 7, 8, 9)
• Texts are socially, culturally, geographically, and historically constructed.
(ELA 8, 9, 10)
• The exploration of text and story deepens our understanding of diverse,
complex ideas about identity, others, and the world. (ELA 10)
• Language shapes ideas and influences others. (ELA 10)
• Questioning what we hear, read, and view contributes to our ability to be
educated and engaged citizens. (ELA 8, 9, 10)
• ELA 11 & 12: Enhance their development of the English Language Arts
curricular competencies, both expressive and receptive

Curricular Competencies:

English Language Arts 7, 8, 9
• Access information and ideas for diverse purposes and from a variety of
sources and evaluate their relevance, accuracy, and reliability
• Apply appropriate strategies to comprehend written, oral, and visual texts,
guide inquiry, and extend thinking
• Synthesize ideas from a variety of sources to build understanding
• Recognize and appreciate how different features, forms, and genres of texts
reflect different purposes, audiences, and messages
• Think critically, creatively, and reflectively to explore ideas within, between,
and beyond texts
• Exchange ideas and viewpoints to build shared understanding and extend
thinking

 GVSF education program 2018

Literary Studies 10
• Access information for diverse purposes and from a variety of sources to
inform writing
• Explore the relevance, accuracy, and reliability of 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
• Respectfully exchange ideas and viewpoints from diverse perspectives to
build shared understanding and extend thinking
• Respond to text in personal, creative, and critical ways
• Demonstrate speaking and listening skills in a variety of formal and informal
contexts for a range of purposes

Literary Studies 11
• Increase their literacy skills through close reading of appropriately
challenging texts
• enhance their development of the English Language Arts curricular
competencies, both expressive and receptive
• expand their development as educated global citizens
• develop balance and broaden their understanding of themselves and the
world
• further develop higher-level thinking and learning skills
• Content:
o canonical literature by era (Renaissance)
o genre-specific studies (drama)
o world literature
o specific author studies

English Studies 12
• refine their ability to communicate effectively in a variety of contexts and to
achieve their personal and career goals
• think critically and creatively about the uses of language
• explore texts from a variety of sources, in multiple modes, and that reflect
diverse worldviews
• deepen their understanding of themselves and others in a changing world
• gain insight into the diverse factors that shape identity
• expand their understanding of what it means to be educated Canadian and
global citizens