my educational journey

Big Ideas and Content

Big ideas (Language Arts):

• Language and stories can be a source of creativity and joy.
• Stories help us learn about ourselves, our families, and our communities.
• Readers use strategies to make sense of what they read, hear, and view.
• Everyone can be a reader and a writer.

Language Arts Content – Students are expected to:

• know the structure and elements of a story
• learn and practice their understanding of literary devices and elements
• understand the features of oral language

Big ideas (Social Studies):

• Explain why people’s beliefs, values, worldviews, experiences, and roles give them different perspectives on people, places, issues, and events
• Make value judgments about events, decisions, and actions, and suggest lessons that can be learned

Social Studies Content – Students are expected to know:

• aspects of life shared by and common to peoples and cultures
• cultural characteristics and ways of life of local First Peoples and global indigenous peoples
• oral history, traditional stories, and artifacts as evidence about past First Peoples cultures

Core Competencies

Students should be able to:
Comprehend and connect

• Engage actively as listeners, viewers, and readers, as appropriate, to develop understanding of self, identity, and community
• Recognize the importance of story in personal, family, and community identity
• Show awareness of how story in First Peoples’ cultures connects people to family and community
• Exchange ideas and perspectives to build shared understanding

Create and communicate

• Create stories and other age-appropriate texts to deepen awareness of self, family, and community
• Plan and create a variety of communication forms for different purposes and audiences