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Overall Expectations
Students will extend their abilities to view, listen to, read, comprehend, and respond to a range of contemporary and traditional grade-level texts from First Nations, Métis, and other cultures in a variety of forms (oral, print, and other texts) for a variety of purposes including for learning, interest, and enjoyment.
Specific Expectations
- View, listen to, read, comprehend, and respond to a variety of texts that address identity (e.g., The Search for Self), social responsibility (e.g., Our Shared Narratives), and efficacy (e.g., Doing the Right Thing).
- Identify and investigate how different cultures and socio-economic groups are portrayed in oral, print, visual, and multimedia texts.
- Show understanding that the creator’s, presenter’s, author’s experience, background, and culture influence the treatment of theme. Analyze a text, showing how it reflects the heritage, traditions, attitudes, privileges, and beliefs of the presenter/author.
- Question and reflect on personal responses and interpretations.
- Determine creator’s, speaker’s, writers’ purpose, attitude, and perspective.
- Recognize persuasive techniques and credibility in visual, oral, written, and multimedia texts.
- Differentiate between fact/opinion and bias and propaganda in texts.
- View and demonstrate comprehension and evaluation of visual and multimedia texts including illustrations, maps, charts, graphs, pamphlets, photography, art works, video clips, and dramatizations to glean ideas suitable for identified audience and purpose.
- View and demonstrate comprehension of visual and multimedia texts to synthesize and summarize ideas from multiple visual and multimedia sources.
- Use visual and multimedia texts as sources of information as well as entertainment.
- Recognize that images, symbols, and other effects play a role in shaping understanding and interpretation of visual and multimedia texts.
- Evaluate common techniques used in visual and multimedia texts. Recognize the elements and principles of design in any visual or multimedia (including digital) text.
- Analyze and evaluate what is viewed (including elements, techniques, and overall effect), and identify how the text was constructed, shaped, and produced.
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Lessons
Bias
Bias in the News
Cinema Cops
Comparing Crime Dramas
Crime Perceptions Quiz
Deconstructing Web Pages
Defining Pop Culture
Fact Versus Opinion
Finding and Authenticating Online Information on Global Development Issues
Hate 2.0
Hate or Debate
How to Analyze the News
ICYou See: A Lesson in Critical Thinking
Kellogg Special K Ads
Violence and Video Games
Marketing to Teens: Introduction
Marketing to Teens: Marketing Tactics
Marketing to Teens: Talking Back
Marketing to Teens: Parody Ads
Marketing to Teens: Gender Roles in Advertising
Marketing to Teens: Gotta Have It! Designer & Brand Names
News and Newspapers: Across the Curriculum
News Journalism: Lesson One
News Journalism: Lesson Two
News Journalism: Lesson Three
Perceptions of Youth and Crime
Scapegoating and Othering
The Front Page
Thinking About Hate
TV Dads: Immature and Irresponsible?
Violence on Film: The Ratings Game
Watching the Elections
Educational Game
Click if You Agree
Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource)
Passport to the Internet
MyWorld: A digital literacy tutorial for secondary students
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Overall Expectations
Students will extend their abilities to speak, write, and use other forms of representation to explore and present thoughts, feelings, and experiences in a variety of forms for a variety of purposes and audiences.
Specific Expectations
- Create and present a variety of visual and multimedia presentations to best represent message for an intended audience and purpose.
- Create and present a variety of visual and multimedia presentations including addressing various audiences for one proposal.
- Create multimedia presentations to communicate information
- Using resources such as overhead projectors, computers, recorders, and other presentation software.
- Experiment with the use of technology in communicating for a range of purposes with a variety of audiences.
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Lessons
Camera Shots
Create a Youth Consumer Magazine
Hate 2.0
Marketing to Teens: Parody Ads
Scripting a Crime Drama
Video Production of a Newscast
Writing a Newspaper Article
You Be the Editor
Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource)
MyWorld: A digital literacy tutorial for secondary students
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