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Quebec Competencies Chart - Violence on Television

Author: MediaSmarts
Level: Secondary Cycle Two
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Lesson Link: Violence on Television

Description: This lesson will introduce students to the organizations of the Canadian broadcasting industry, and to the codes, guidelines and issues relating to violence in television and radio programming.

Cross-curricular Competencies

Broad Areas of Learning

  • To use information
  • To solve problems
  • To exercise critical judgment
  • To adopt effective work methods
  • To work with others
  • To communicate appropriately
  • Media Literacy

This lesson satisfies the following English Language Arts Competencies from the Quebec Education Program:

COMPETENCY 2 Reads and listens to written, spoken and media texts

Constructing a Reading of a Text

  • Focuses on the relationship between self as reader and the text to construct an interpretive reading
  • Activates relevant prior personal knowledge and experience to make sense of a text which is frequently expressed in text-to-self connections, text-to-world connections, text-to-text connections
  • Asks questions of self, writers(s) and text(s) as s/he reads to clarify and focus reading
  • Determines the most important ideas/messages/themes in a text
  • Retells or synthesizes what s/he has read, e.g. attends to the most important information and the quality of the synthesis itself to better understand the text

COMPETENCY 3 Produces texts for personal and social purposes

Researching as a Writer/Producer

  • Develops topics that are personally and socially relevant:
    • looks at multiple perspectives on the topic, e.g. pros and cons of an argument, how different people perceive the issue
    • broadens and/or narrows the scope of the topic

Public and Private Space

Examines the difference between producing texts for private and public audiences:

  • questions issues of ownership, intellectual property, creative freedom, boundaries of genres

Production Process

Media Practices

  • Examines issues of media ownership and control

Planning and Drafting

  • Brainstorms ideas, clarifies and extends thinking by talking with peers and teacher

 

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