Outcome Chart - Northwest Territories - English Language Arts 7

Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to comprehend and respond personally and critically to oral, print, and other media texts, through a process

Overall Expectations

Prior Knowledge and Connections

Comprehension Strategies

Respond to Various Texts

Connect Self, Texts, and Culture

Forms and Genres

Specific Expectations

Select and use appropriate comprehension strategies to construct, revise and explain understanding of texts
*viewing process stages include: pre-viewing, viewing, responding, exploring, and applying

Use textual cues to construct and confirm meaning:

• music / sounds,
• volume,
• colour,
• movement,
• opening shots to videos,
• lighting (time, mood, feelings), and composition

Identify ideas, points of view, and bias in texts

Describe attributes of genres and/or forms

Describe how techniques and elements are used in texts

Lessons

Activity One: Looking Through the Lenses

Activity Two: Whose Lenses? How Mass Media Portray Global Development

Activity Three: Adjusting the Focus
Comic Book Characters

Cop Shows

Create a Youth Consumer Magazine

Creating a Marketing Frenzy
 
How to Analyze the News

Marketing to Teens: Marketing Tactics

News and Newspapers: Across the Curriculum

Selling Tobacco

The Broadcast Project

Television News

Thinking About Hate

Tobacco Labels

You Be the Editor 
 
You've Gotta Have a Gimmick

Educational Games

Jo Fool or Jo Cool

Passport to the Internet (Licensed resource)

Allies and Aliens

Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to plan and focus an inquiry or research and interpret and analyze information and ideas, through a process

Overall Expectations

Identify Sources of Information

Evaluate Sources

Specific Expectations

Identify relevant primary and secondary sources to answer inquiry or research questions

Use criteria to evaluate usefulness and reliability of sources

Lessons

Deconstructing Web Pages

Finding and Authenticating Online Information on Global Development Issues

I heard it 'round the Internet: Sexual health education and authenticating online information

ICYouSee: A Lesson in Critical Thinking

Scientific Detectives
 
Taming the Wild Wiki

Thinking About Hate

Educational Games

Jo Fool or Jo Cool

Passport to the Internet (Licensed resource)

Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to clarify and enhance oral, written, and visual forms of communication, through a process

Overall Expectations

Create Original Texts

Effective Presentation

Specific Expectations

Demonstrate understanding of elements of texts when creating oral, print, and other media texts

Present and/or publish texts (oral, print, and media)

Lessons

Create a Youth Consumer Magazine

Creating a Marketing Frenzy

Marketing to Teens: Marketing Tactics 
 
Marketing to Teens: Parody Ads

Video Production of a Newscast

Writing a Newspaper Article

Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to celebrate and build community within the home, school, workplace and wider society

Overall Expectations

Appreciate Diversity

Specific Expectations

Identify and describe barriers to the acceptance or honouring of diversity

Comic Book Characters

Exposing Gender Stereotypes 
 
Female Action Heroes

Gender Stereotypes and Body Image

Learning Gender Stereotypes
 
Marketing to Teens: Gender Roles in Advertising

Prejudice and Body Image
 
Stereotyping and Bias

The Girl in the Mirror  
 
The Impact of Gender Stereotypes

Thinking About Hate

Educational Games

Jo Fool or Jo Cool

Passport to the Internet (Licensed resource)

Allies and Aliens