The 62 competencies set for Grade 10 English, and every one has lessons behind it.
Literary Values, Themes, and Motifs
3 competencies
Analyze literary texts as expressions of individual or communal values within structural context.
Analyze the maxims, universal truths, and philosophies presented in the literary text as a means of valuing other people and their various circumstances in life.
Analyze patterns and motifs.
Character and Conflict
6 competencies
Analyze character vs. character.
Analyze character vs. society.
Analyze character vs. nature/environment.
Analyze character vs. self.
Analyze character.
Analyze characterization.
Plot, Point of View, and Narrative Unity
3 competencies
Analyze plot: in medias res.
Analyze point of view and narrative techniques.
Analyze organic unity.
Drama and Performance Elements
1 competency
Analyze spectacle, dialogue, and music.
Literary Style and Poetic Language
5 competencies
Analyze style.
Analyze rhyme and meter.
Analyze figures of speech and sound devices.
Analyze diction.
Analyze tone and mood.
Literary Context and Meaning
7 competencies
Analyze sign and referent.
Analyze binary opposition.
Analyze linguistic context: speaker/narrator and place; speaker/narrator and situation; co-text; collocation.
Analyze psychological context.
Analyze biographical context.
Analyze historical context.
Analyze sociocultural context.
Creative Literary Writing
4 competencies
Identify one’s meaning and purpose in selecting the type of literary text for composition.
Publish an original literary text that reflects culture: short film.
Compose literary texts using appropriate structure.
Revise literary texts for coherence and cohesion.
Informational Text Structure and Language
2 competencies
Examine text structures for clarity of meaning and purpose: documentaries and vlogs.
Examine linguistic features as tools to achieve organizational efficiency in informational texts: diction and style, transition devices, sentence structure and function.
Visual and Nonlinear Informational Texts
2 competencies
Examine how visual elements are used as tools to achieve the intended meaning of informational texts: vectors and viewpoint, technical editing, animations.
Analyze how non-linear texts represent and/or summarize the contents of informational texts: photographs, cartoons/sketches.
Information, Evidence, and Synthesis
4 competencies
Extract significant information.
Analyze textual evidence to support an argument/general statement: quoting, paraphrasing, summarizing.
Synthesize significant information.
Organize significant information using various technique.
Credibility, Issues, and Journalistic Judgment
4 competencies
Analyze the real-world issues/occurrences presented in informational texts.
Determine the veracity of the information presented: credibility of the author, accuracy of information, relevance, timeliness, objectivity, coverage.
Assess the quality of journalistic articles based on standard development principles: simplicity and brevity, precision, objectivity and factuality, fairness and balance, ethics.
Draw inferences and conclusions to formulate sound judgment: author’s purpose and meaning; target audience.
Informational Writing and Multimodal Publishing
8 competencies
Identify the text type appropriate for one’s topic, purpose, and target audience.
Determine one’s thesis as the central idea of the paper.
Compose the informational text based on the chosen text type.
Apply multimodal elements appropriate to the chosen text delivery/ies.
Revise the text for coherence.
Revise the text for cohesion: diction, syntax, and style.
Edit the text for textual consistency.
Publish a multimodal informational text for one’s purpose and target audience: documentaries and vlogs.
Formal Correspondence and Application Letters
9 competencies
Analyze distinguishing features of informal and formal correspondences to infer sender’s meaning and purpose across modalities: letter of application.
Analyze milieus influencing the structure and rhetoric of informal and formal correspondences across modalities: parts and formats, organizational patterns, politeness strategies.
Examine the sender’s voice for clarity of purpose and meaning.
Examine how ethics is established in transmitting informal and formal correspondences across modalities.
Identify one’s purpose and meaning in writing letters.
Compose a letter of application.
Revise for coherence and cohesion.
Edit for consistency of diction, style, tone and register, point of view, and grammar.
Send correspondences to communicate with and respond to senders within the bounds of ethics.
Research Reports and Academic Evidence
4 competencies
Examine text structures for clarity of meaning and purpose: academic texts, research report.
Analyze the use of discipline-specific words, voice, technical terms in research, and conceptual, operational, and expanded definition of words.
Analyze supporting evidence to validate assertions and counterclaims: factual knowledge, statistical inferences, informed opinion, personal testimony.
Publish a multimodal informational text for one’s purpose and target audience: research report.
