Specific Expectations Purposes Read and view, both collaboratively and independently, a wide variety of authentic First Peoples texts, including texts from - local communities
- other parts of North America and the world
View, both collaboratively and independently, to comprehend a variety of visual texts representing local and other BC First Peoples cultures, such as - film and video
- photographs
- paintings, carvings, totems, petroglyphs, pictographs
- textiles, regalia, masks
- dance, drama
- graphic novels and illustrated literature
- broadcast media
- web sites
- student-generated material
Strategies During reading and viewing, select, adapt, and apply a range of strategies to construct, monitor, and confirm meaning, including - comparing and refining predictions, questions, and images
- making connections to First Peoples worldviews
- making inferences and drawing conclusions
- reading the text aloud or listening to it read aloud
- summarizing and paraphrasing
- using text features
- determining the meaning of unknown words and phrases
- clarifying meaning
After reading and viewing, select, adapt, and apply a range of strategies to extend and confirm meaning and to consider author’s craft, including - reflecting on predictions, questions, images, and connections made during reading
- making connections to self, to identity, to other texts, and to place
- reviewing text and purpose for reading
- making inferences and drawing conclusions
- summarizing, synthesizing, and applying ideas
- identifying stylistic techniques
Thinking Explain and support personal responses to texts, by - making comparisons to other ideas and concepts
- relating reactions and emotions to understanding of the text
- explaining opinions using reasons and evidence
- suggesting contextual influences
Interpret, analyse, and evaluate ideas and information from texts, by - making and supporting reasoned judgments
- comparing ideas and elements among texts
- identifying and describing diverse voices
- describing bias, contradictions, and non-represented perspectives
- identifying the importance and impact of historical and social contexts
Synthesize and extend thinking about texts, by - making connections to First Peoples principles of learning
- personalizing ideas, information, and understandings
- explaining relationships among ideas, information, and understandings
- applying new ideas, information, and understandings
- contextualizing ideas, information, and understandings
- transforming existing ideas and understandings
Use metacognitive strategies to reflect on and assess their reading and viewing, by - making connections between their exploration of personal identity and texts studied
- referring to criteria
- setting goals for improvement
- creating a plan for achieving goals
- evaluating progress and setting new goals
| Lessons Beyond Media Messages: Media Portrayal of Global Development Bias Bias in the News Deconstructing Web Pages Finding and Authenticating Online Information on Global Development Issues Hoax? Scholarly Research? Personal Opinion? You Decide! How to Analyze the News I heard it 'round the Internet: Sexual health education and authenticating online information ICYouSee: A Lesson in Critical Thinking Perceptions of Youth and Crime Taming the Wild Wiki |
Specific Expectations Purposes Write purposeful informational texts that express ideas, information, and understandings to - explore and respond
- record and describe
- analyse and explain
- speculate and consider
- argue and persuade
- engage
Create thoughtful representations, individually and collaboratively, that communicate ideas, information, and understandings to - reflect, explore, and respond
- record and describe
- explain and persuade
- make connections
- engage
Thinking Write and represent to explain and support personal responses to texts, by - making comparisons to other ideas and concepts
- relating reactions and emotions to understanding of the text
- developing opinions using reasons and evidence
- suggesting contextual influences
Write and represent to interpret, analyse, and evaluate ideas and information from texts, by - making and supporting reasoned judgments
- describing and comparing perspectives
- describing bias, contradictions, and non-represented perspectives
- identifying the importance and impact of historical and social contexts
Write and represent to synthesize and extend thinking, by - personalizing ideas, information, and understandings
- explaining relationships among ideas, information, and understandings
- applying new ideas, information, and understandings
- contextualizing ideas, information, and understandings
- transforming existing ideas and understandings
Use metacognitive strategies to reflect on and assess their writing and representing, by - making connections to First Peoples principles of learning
- relating their work to criteria set by self or others
- setting goals for improvement
- creating a plan for achieving goals
- evaluating progress and setting new goals
| Lessons Buy Nothing Day Celebrities and World Issues Crime in the News Free Speech and the Internet Individuality vs. Conformity Violence and Video Games News Journalism: Lesson One Selling Obesity Selling Tobacco Shaking the Movers: Youth Rights and Media Taming the Wild Wiki Television News : Lesson Four The Privacy Dilemma Violence on Film: The Ratings Game |
