Outcome Chart - British Columbia - English Language Arts 9

This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the British Columbia, Grade 9 English Language Arts curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

It is expected that students will:

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
  • student-generated material

                                 

 

 

 

 

 

Lessons

Celebrities and World Issues

Deconstructing Web Pages

ICYouSee: T is for Thinking

News Journalism Across the Media: Introduction

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

The Privacy Dilemma

Who Knows? Your Privacy in the Information Age

How to Analyze the News

Viewing a Crime Drama

Images of Learning: Secondary

Cop Shows

Female Action Heroes

Thinking Like a Tobacco Company: Grades 7–9

Truth or Money

Alcohol Myths

Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising

Television Broadcast Ratings

The Girl in the Mirror

Backgrounders

Evaluating Internet Research Sources

Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource)

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

 

 

 

Lessons

Beyond Media Messages: Media Portrayal of Global Development

Celebrities and World Issues

Finding and Authenticating Online Information on Global Development Issues

Bias

Bias in the News

Perceptions of Youth and Crime

Images of Learning: Secondary

Tobacco Advertising in Canada

Alcohol Myths

Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising

Alcohol on the Web

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

Crime Perceptions Quiz

Marketing to Teens: Gender Roles in Advertising

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

Marketing to Teens: Marketing Tactics

Marketing to Teens: Parody Ads

Selling Obesity

Violence and Video Games

Thinking Like a Tobacco Company: Grades 7–9

Learning Gender Stereotypes

True Story

Popular Music and Music Videos

Gender and Tobacco

Selling Tobacco

Hoax? Scholarly Research? Personal Opinion? You Decide!

The Privacy Dilemma

Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource)

MyWorld: A digital literacy tutorial for secondary students

Thinking (Reading and Viewing)

Interpret, analyse, and evaluate ideas and information from texts, by

  • making and supporting judgments
  • examining and comparing ideas and elements within and among texts
  • beginning to identify diverse voices
  • identifying bias, contradictions, and non-represented perspective

 

 

 

 

Lessons

Beyond Media Messages: Media Portrayal of Global Development

Celebrities and World Issues

Finding and Authenticating Online Information on Global Development Issues

Bias

Bias in the News

Perceptions of Youth and Crime

Images of Learning: Secondary

Tobacco Advertising in Canada

Alcohol Myths

Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising

Alcohol on the Web

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

Crime Perceptions Quiz

Marketing to Teens: Gender Roles in Advertising

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

Marketing to Teens: Marketing Tactics

Marketing to Teens: Parody Ads

Selling Obesity

Violence and Video Games

Thinking Like a Tobacco Company: Grades 7–9

Learning Gender Stereotypes

True Story

Popular Music and Music Videos

Gender and Tobacco

Selling Tobacco

Hoax? Scholarly Research? Personal Opinion? You Decide!

The Girl in the Mirror

Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource)

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

Finding and Authenticating Online Information on Global Development Issues

Bias

Bias in the News

Perceptions of Youth and Crime

Images of Learning: Secondary

Tobacco Advertising in Canada

Alcohol Myths

Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising

Alcohol on the Web

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

Crime Perceptions Quiz

Marketing to Teens: Gender Roles in Advertising

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

Marketing to Teens: Marketing Tactics

Marketing to Teens: Parody Ads

Selling Obesity

Violence and Video Games

Thinking Like a Tobacco Company: Grades 7–9

Learning Gender Stereotypes

True Story

Popular Music and Music Videos

Gender and Tobacco

Selling Tobacco

Hoax? Scholarly Research? Personal Opinion? You Decide!

Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource)

MyWorld: A digital literacy tutorial for secondary students

  Writing and Representing

Strategies (Writing and Representing)

Write effective imaginative texts to explore ideas and information to

  • make connections and develop insights
  • explore literary forms and techniques
  • experiment with language and style
  • engage and entertain

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

Finding and Authenticating Online Information on Global Development Issues

Deconstructing Web Pages

ICYouSee: T is for Thinking                  

Create a Youth Consumer Magazine

Video Production of a Newscast

Writing a Newspaper Article

The Broadcast Project

Camera Shots

News Journalism Across the Media:

Introduction

Definitions and Comments about the News

The Newspaper Front Page

Radio News

Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource)

MyWorld: A digital literacy tutorial for secondary students

 

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