Outcome Chart - British Columbia - English Language Arts 8

Reading and Viewing

Purposes (Reading and Viewing)

• view, both collaboratively and independently, to comprehend a variety of visual texts, such as
  • broadcast media
  • web sites
  • graphic novels
  • film and video
  • photographs
  • art
• visual components of print media

Lessons

The Broadcast Project

Celebrities and World Issues

How to Analyze the News

Writing a Newspaper Article

Sports Personalities in Magazine Advertising

Popular Music and Music Videos

Viewing a Crime Drama

Video Games

Images of Learning: Elementary

Cop Shows

Selling Tobacco

Female Action Heroes

TV Dads: Immature and Irresponsible?

True Story

Freedom to Smoke

The Price of Happiness: On Advertising, Image, and Self Esteem

ICYouSee: T is for Thinking

Marketing to Teens: Parody Ads

Marketing to Teens: Alternate Ads

The Girl in the Mirror

Backgrounders

Evaluating Internet Research Sources

Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource)

Passport to the Internet: Student tutorial for Internet literacy (Grades 4-8)

MyWorld: A digital literacy tutorial for secondary students

 Strategies (Reading and Viewing)

• during reading and viewing, select and use a range of strategies to construct, monitor, and confirm meaning, including
  • predicting, questioning, visualizing, and making connections
  • making inferences and drawing conclusions
  • differentiating main ideas and supporting details
  • summarizing
  • using text features
  • determining the meaning of unknown words and phrases
  • self-monitoring and self-correcting

• after reading and viewing, select and use a range of strategies to extend and confirm meaning, including
  • responding to text
  • asking questions
  • reviewing text and purpose for reading
  • making inferences and drawing conclusions
  • summarizing, synthesizing, and applying ideas

Beyond Media Messages: Media Portrayal of Global Development

Bias

Bias in the News

Celebrities and World Issues

Finding and Authenticating Online Information on Global Development Issues

Allies and Aliens: Interactive Module on Online Hate

Marketing to Teens: Gender Roles in Advertising

Marketing to Teens: Gotta Have It! Designer & Brand Names   

Marketing to Teens: Marketing Tactics

Selling Obesity

Television Broadcast Ratings

Sports Personalities in Magazine Advertising

Thinking Like a Tobacco Company: Grades 7–9

True Story

Gender and Tobacco

Violence and Video Games

Cop Shows

Do You Believe This Camel?

Gender and Tobacco

Scientific Detectives

Selling Tobacco

The Target is You!: Alcohol advertising quiz

Kids, Alcohol and Advertising: Messages About Drinking

Kids, Alcohol and Advertising: Young Drinkers

Kids, Alcohol and Advertising: Understanding Brands

Kids, Alcohol and Advertising:  Interpreting Media Messages

Who’s On First: Alcohol Advertising and Sports

Alcohol Myths

Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising

Alcohol on the Web

Don't Drink and Drive: Assessing the Effectiveness of Anti-Drinking Campaigns

Thinking About Hate

Female Action Heroes

Perceptions of Youth and Crime

Educational Games

Allies and Aliens

Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource)

Passport to the Internet: Student tutorial for Internet literacy (Grades 4-8)

MyWorld: A digital literacy tutorial for secondary students  

Thinking (Reading and Viewing)

• interpret and analyse ideas and information from texts, by
  • making and supporting judgments
  • examining and comparing ideas and elements within and among texts
  • identifying points of view
  • identifying bias and contradictions

Alcohol Advertising Quiz - Introduction

Alcohol Myths

Beyond Media Messages: Media Portrayal of Global Development

Celebrities and World Issues

Creating a Marketing Frenzy

Finding and Authenticating Online Information on Global Development Issues

Freedom to Smoke

Gender and Tobacco
Image Gap

Mirror Image

Thinking Like a Citizen

News Journalism: Lesson One

The Broadcast Project

Perceptions of Youth and Crime

The Anatomy of Cool

The Girl in the Mirror

What Students Need to Know about Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy
CyberSense and Nonsense Introduction

Violence and Video Games

Taking Charge of TV Violence

Video Games

Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource)

Passport to the Internet: Student tutorial for Internet literacy (Grades 4-8)

MyWorld: A digital literacy tutorial for secondary students

Features (Reading and Viewing)

• recognize and explain how structures and features of text shape readers’ and viewers’ construction of meaning, including
  • form and genre
  • functions of text
  • literary elements
  • literary devices
  • use of language
  • non-fiction elements
  • visual/artistic devices

Lessons

Beyond Media Messages: Media Portrayal of Global Development

Celebrities and World Issues

Do You Believe This Camel?

Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising

Kids, Alcohol and Advertising - Lesson 2: Young Drinkers

Kids, Alcohol and Advertising - Lesson 3: Understanding Brands

Kids, Alcohol and Advertising - Lesson 4: Interpreting Media Messages

Looks Good Enough to Eat  

Scientific Detectives

Selling Tobacco

Sports Personalities in Magazine Advertising

The True Story

Thinking Like a Tobacco Company: Grades 7-9

Tobacco Labels

TV Dads: Immature and Irresponsible?

Elections and the Media

How to Analyze the News

News Journalism: Lesson Three

Summative Activities : Lesson Five

News Journalism: Lesson Two

Taking Charge of TV Violence

Video Games

Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource)

Passport to the Internet: Student tutorial for Internet literacy (Grades 4-8)

MyWorld: A digital literacy tutorial for secondary students

Writing and Representing

Strategies (Writing and Representing)

• select and use a range of strategies to generate, develop, and organize ideas for writing and representing, including

  • making connections

  • setting a purpose and considering audience

  • gathering and summarizing ideas from personal interest, knowledge, and inquiry

  • analysing writing samples or models

  • setting class-generated criteria

• create thoughtful representations that communicate ideas and information to
  • explore and respond
  • record and describe
  • explain and persuade
  • engage

Lessons

Create a Youth Consumer Magazine

Celebrities and World Issues

ICYouSee: T is for Thinking

Finding and Authenticating Online Information on Global Development Issues

Deconstructing Web Pages

Video Production of a Newscast

Writing a Newspaper Article

The Broadcast Project

Privacy and Internet Life

News Journalism Across the Media:

Introduction

Definitions and Comments about the News

The Newspaper Front Page

Radio News

Backgrounders

Evaluating Internet Research Sources

Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource)

Passport to the Internet: Student tutorial for Internet literacy (Grades 4-8)