Outcome Chart - Northwest Territories - English Language Arts 9

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

Create and/or adapt 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 within and across texts in grade nine, narrative textual cues include:

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

Compare and critique ideas, points of view, and bias, in and across texts

Evaluate the relationship between genres/forms and audience/purpose

Evaluate how techniques and elements are used in texts

Lessons

Bias in the News

Camera Shots

Fact Versus Opinion

Hate 2.0

Hate or Debate?

Marketing to Teens: Marketing Tactics

Scapegoating and Othering

Television News

Thinking About Hate

Viewing a Crime Drama

Watching the Elections

You Be the Editor

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

Develop and use criteria to evaluate usefulness, reliability of, and perspectives and biases within, sources

Lessons

Deconstructing Web Pages

Finding and Authenticating Online Information on Global Development Issues

Hate 2.0

Hate or Debate?

Hoax? Scholarly Research? Personal Opinion? You Decide!

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

ICYouSee: A Lesson in Critical Thinking

Taming the Wild Wiki

Thinking About Hate

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

Hate 2.0

Hate or Debate?

Marketing to Teens: Parody Ads

Scapegoating and Othering

Scripting a Crime Drama

Thinking About Hate

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 social issues related to diversity and recognize that some perspectives may be missing

Lessons

Bias in the News

Hate 2.0

Hate or Debate?

Perceptions of Youth and Crime

Scapegoating and Othering

The Front Page

Thinking About Hate