Understanding Media Texts |
- explain how media texts, including complex and challenging texts, are created to suit particular purposes and audiences
- interpret media texts, including complex or challenging texts, identifying and explaining with increasing insight the overt and implied messages they convey
- evaluate how effectively information, ideas, themes, issues, and opinions are communicated in media texts, including complex and challenging texts, and decide whether the texts achieve their intended purpose
- explain, with increasing insight, why the same media text might prompt different responses from different audiences
- identify and analyse the perspectives and/or biases evident in texts, including complex and challenging texts, commenting with understanding and increasing insight on any questions they may raise about beliefs, values, identity, and power
- explain, with increasing understanding and insight, how production, marketing, financing, distribution, and legal/regulatory factors influence the media industry
| Lessons that meet the Grade 12 expectations Bias Crime in the News Political Cartoons Television Newscasts Sex in Advertising You Be the Editor How to Analyze the News Advertising Marketing Tactics
Talking Back Alternative Ads
Parody Ads Gender Roles in Advertising
The Price of Happiness: On Advertising, Image, and Self Esteem Gotta Have It! Designer & Brand Names Kellogg Special K Ads Advertising and Male Violence Sex in Advertising The Pornography Debate: Controversy in Advertising
Alcohol Don't Drink and Drive: Assessing the Effectiveness of Anti-Drinking Campaigns Internet Challenging Hate Free Speech vs the Internet The Privacy Dilemma Media Defining Pop Culture Individuality vs. Conformity Hype Political Cartoons Magazine Production Movies Violence on Film Movie Heroes and the Heroic Journey The Blockbuster Movie News is Not Just Black and White: The Front Page Bias in the News Fact Versus Opinion Violence on Film: The Ratings Game Television Broadcast Ratings Perceptions of Youth and Crime Privacy in the Information Age News Journalism How to Analyze the News Crime in the News You Be the Editor Bias The Front Page Bias in the News Fact Versus Opinion Music Popular Music and Music Videos The Function of Music Stereotyping Images of Learning: Secondary Perceptions of Youth and Crime Suffragettes and Iron Ladies Television Camera Shots Cinema Cops Crime Perceptions Quiz Broadcasting Codes Television Newscasts Violence on Television Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource) MyWorld: A digital literacy tutorial for secondary students |
Understanding Media Forms, Conventions, and Techniques |
- identify general and specific characteristics of a variety of media forms and demonstrate insight into the way they shape content and create meaning
- identify conventions and/or techniques used in a variety of media forms and demonstrate insight into the way they convey meaning and influence their audience
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Reading for Meaning |
Read and demonstrate an understanding of a variety of literary, graphic, and informational texts, using a range of strategies to construct meaning - read a variety of short, contemporary student- and teacher-selected texts from diverse cultures, identifying specific purposes for reading
- select and use the most appropriate reading comprehension strategies to understand texts, including increasingly complex or difficult texts
- identify the most important ideas and supporting details in texts, including increasingly complex or difficult texts
- make and explain inferences about texts, including increasingly complex or difficult texts, supporting their explanations with well-chosen stated and implied ideas from the texts
- extend understanding of texts, including increasingly complex or difficult texts, by making appropriate and increasingly rich connections between the ideas in them and personal knowledge, experience, and insights; other texts; and the world around them
- analyse the information, ideas, issues, and themes explored in texts and the ways in which various aspects of the texts contribute to their development
- evaluate the effectiveness of texts, including increasingly complex or difficult texts, stating their opinions clearly and using evidence from the text effectively to support their opinions
- identify and analyse the perspectives and/or biases evident in texts, including increasingly complex or difficult texts, commenting with growing understanding on any questions they may raise about beliefs, values, identity, and power
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Understanding Form and Style |
Recognize a variety of text forms, text features, and stylistic elements and demonstrate understanding of how they help communicate meaning - Identify a variety of characteristics of informational, literary, and graphic text forms and explain how they help communicate meaning
- Identify a variety of text features and explain how they help communicate meaning
- identify a variety of elements of style in texts, including increasingly complex or difficult texts, and explain how they help communicate meaning and enhance the effectiveness of the texts
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Creating Media Texts |
- describe the topic, purpose, and audience for media texts they plan to create
- select the media form best suited to the topic, purpose, and audience for a media text they plan to create, and explain why it is the appropriate choice
- identify a variety of conventions and/or techniques appropriate to a media form they plan to use, and explain why these will help communicate a specific aspect of their intended meaning effectively
- produce media texts, including complex texts, for a variety of purposes and audiences, using the most appropriate forms, conventions, and techniques
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Reflecting on Media Literacy Skills and Strategies |
- explain which of a variety of strategies they found most helpful in interpreting and creating media texts, then evaluate their strengths and weaknesses as media interpreters and producers to help identify the
steps they can take to improve their skills - explain how their skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing help them interpret and produce media texts
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