listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to explore thoughts, ideas, feelings, and experiences
Discover Possibilities
- generate and experiment with strategies that contribute to forming tentative understandings, interpretations and positions
Experiment with Language, Image and Structure
- experiment with language, image and structure to create different effects in particular situations and for particular purposes and audiences
Express Preferences, and Expand Interests
- reflect on personal text preferences, identity influences that have contributed to the formation of these preferences and selected strategies that may be used to expand interests in tests and text creators
- expand interests in a range of literary genres and in a variety of other text types and text creators
Lessons
- The Price of Happiness: On Advertising, Image, and Self Esteem
- Crime Perceptions Quiz
- Perceptions of Youth and Crime
- Marketing to Teens: Gotta Have It! Designer & Brand Names
- The Function of Music
- You Be the Editor
- The Privacy Dilemma
- Who Knows? Your Privacy in the Information Age
- How to Analyze the News
- Crime in the News
- Create a Youth Consumer Magazine
- Magazine Production
- Thinking Like a Tobacco Company: Grades 7-9
- Truth or Money
- Gender and Tobacco
- Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising
- Alcohol on the Web
- Don’t Drink and Drive: Assessing the Effectiveness of Anti-Drinking Campaigns
- News Journalism Across the Media: Introduction
- Definitions and Comments about the News
- The Newspaper Front Page
- Radio News
- News Journalism Across the Media: Summative Activities
- Suffragettes and Iron Ladies
Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource)
listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to comprehend literature and other texts in oral, print, visual and multimedia forms, and respond personally, critically, and creatively
Discern and Analyze Content
- identify a variety of different kinds of texts, audiences and purposes for creating texts
- use features found within a text as information to describe the communication situation within which the text was created
- describe the relationship between text and context
- identify the impact that personal context – experience prior knowledge has on constructing meaning from a text
Understand and Interpret Content
- describe the personality traits, motivations, attitudes, values and relationships of characters developed/persons presented in literature and other texts; and identify how the use of archetypes adds to an appreciation of text
- describe a text creator’s tone, and relate tone to purpose and audience
- describe visual elements and aural elements and describe their contributions to the meaning of texts
Use Reference Strategies and Reference Technologies
- use a variety of appropriate reference strategies and references technologies to aid understanding create and use own reference materials to aid understanding
Relate Form, Structure and Medium to Purpose, Audience and Content
- describe audience factors that may have influenced a text creator’s choice of form and medium
- identify and describe the characteristics of various common communications media
Lessons
These outcomes can be found in many lessons available from the Lesson Library, including:
- Gender and Tobacco
- Selling Tobacco
- Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising
- Alcohol on the Web
- Don’t Drink and Drive: Assessing the Effectiveness of Anti-Drinking Campaigns
- Marketing to Teens: Introduction
- Marketing to Teens: Marketing Tactics
- Marketing to Teens: Parody Ads
- Marketing to Teens: Alternate Ads
- Marketing to Teens: Gender Roles in Advertising
- Marketing to Teens: Gotta Have It! Designer & Brand Names
- Kellogg Special K Ads
- Hype!
- The Blockbuster Movie
- Movie Heroes and the Heroic Journey
- Advertising and Male Violence
- Magazine Production
- News Journalism Across the Media: Introduction
- Definitions and Comments about the News
- The Newspaper Front Page
- Radio News
- News Journalism Across the Media: Summative Activities
- Television Broadcast Ratings
- The Broadcast Project
- Scripting a Crime Drama
- Viewing a Crime Drama
- Comparing Crime Dramas
Relate Elements, Devices and Techniques to Created Effects
- describe aspects of a text that contribute to atmosphere, tone and voice
- recognize irony and satire in print and nonprint texts, and identify language used to create irony and satire
- describe the effects of musical devices, figures of speech and sensory details in print and nonprint texts
- recognize the use of motif and symbol in print and nonprint texts
- identify persuasive techniques used in a variety of print and nonprint texts
Lessons
- Camera Shots
- Marketing to Teens: Marketing Tactics
- Marketing to Teens: Parody Ads
- Kellogg Special K Ads
- Hype!
- Political Cartoons
- The Function of Music
- Popular Music and Music Videos
- Movie Heroes and the Heroic Journey
- Advertising and Male Violence
- Selling Tobacco
- Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising
- Alcohol on the Web
- Don’t Drink and Drive: Assessing the Effectiveness of Anti-Drinking Campaigns
Connect Self, Text, Culture and Milieu
- identify and consider personal moral and ethical perspectives, as well as cultural perspectives, when studying literature and other texts; and reflect on and monitor how perspectives change as a result of interpretation and discussion
- respond personally and analytically to ideas developed in works of literature and other texts; and analyse the ways in which ideas are reflected in personal and cultural opinions, values, beliefs, and perspectives
- identify and examine ways in which cultural and societal influences are reflected in a variety of Canadian and international texts
Lessons
- The Price of Happiness: On Advertising, Image, and Self Esteem
- Perceptions of Youth and Crime
- The Privacy Dilemma
- What Students Need to Know about Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy
- Exposing Gender Stereotypes
- Learning Gender Stereotypes
- The Impact of Gender Role Stereotypes
Evaluate the Verisimilitude, Appropriateness and Significance of Print and Nonprint Texts
- identify criteria to evaluate the effectiveness of texts, monitor the effectiveness of the criteria, and modify the criteria as needed
- describe images in print and nonprint texts in terms of created reality and appropriateness to purpose
- assess the significance of a text’s theme or controlling idea, and the adequacy, relevance and effectiveness of its supporting details, examples of illustrations and content in general
Appreciate the Effectiveness and Artistry of Print and Nonprint Texts
- use terminology appropriate to the forms studied for discussing and appreciating the effectiveness and artistry of a variety of text forms
- describe the effectiveness of various texts, including media texts, for presenting feelings, ideas and information, and for evoking response
Lessons
- Selling Tobacco
- Perceptions of Youth and Crime
- Bias in the News
- Fact Versus Opinion
- How to Analyze the News
- Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising
- Alcohol on the Web
- Don’t Drink and Drive: Assessing the Effectiveness of Anti-Drinking Campaigns
Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource)
listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to manage ideas and information
Plan Inquiry or Research, and Identify Information Needs and Sources
- identify and select potential strategies and technologies for gathering, generating and recording information
Evaluate Sources, and Assess Information
- reflect on and describe strategies to evaluate information sources and for detecting bias and for quality; and monitor and modify selected strategies as needed to evaluate sources and detect bias
- assess information sources for appropriateness to purpose, audience and presentation form
- assess the accuracy, completeness, currency and relevance of information selected from sources; and assess the appropriateness of the information to purpose
- identify and describe possible biases of sources
Lessons
- Deconstructing Web Pages
- ICYouSee: A Lesson in Critical Thinking
- Thinking About Hate
- Hoax? Scholarly Research? Personal Opinion? You Decide!
Resources
Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource)
listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to create oral, print, visual and multimedia texts, and enhance clarity and artistry of communication
Assess Text Creation Context
- reflect on the purposes for text creation and on own motives for selecting strategies to engage an audience; and consider potential consequences of choices regarding text creation
- describe and address audience factors that affect text creation
Consider and Address Form, Structure and Medium
- select a text form appropriate to the purpose for text creation and consistent with the content to be presented in the text
- identify and use structures consistent with form, content and purpose when creating texts
- explore the interplay among medium, content and context
- understand the concept of convention; and apply it to oral, print, visual and multimedia text forms when appropriate
Develop Content
- take ownership of text creation, by selecting or crafting a topic, concept or idea that is personally meaningful and engaging
- recognize and assess personal variables and contextual variables that influence the selection of a topic, concept or idea; and address these variables to increase the likelihood of successful text creation
- establish a focus for text creation, and communicate scope by framing an effective controlling idea or describing a strong unifying effect
- develop content appropriate to audience and situation
- develop content appropriate to purpose
Use Production, Publication and Presentation Strategies and Technologies Consistent with Content
- meet particular production, publication and display requirements for print texts
- develop presentation materials; and select strategies and technologies appropriate to purpose, audience and situation
Lessons
- Create a Youth Consumer Magazine
- Magazine Production
- Scripting a Crime Drama
- Television Broadcast Ratings
- Images of Learning: Secondary
- Marketing to Teens: Introduction
- Marketing to Teens: Marketing Tactics
- Marketing to Teens: Talking Back
- Marketing to Teens: Parody Ads
- Marketing to Teens: Alternate Ads
- Marketing to Teens: Gender Roles in Advertising
- Marketing to Teens: Gotta Have It! Designer & Brand Names
- News Journalism Across the Media: Summative Activities
- Video Production of a Newscast
listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to respect, support and collaborate with others
Use Language and Image to Show Respect and Consideration
- analyze and describe language and image that is used in texts to convey respectful and considerate, or disrespectful and inconsiderate, perspectives and attitudes
- analyze and describe stereotyping that contributes to positive or negative portrayals of characters in literature and persons in life, and be sensitive to the feelings of others
- analyze and describe verbal and nonverbal communication that contributes to the inclusion or exclusion of individuals involved in a communication situation, and use verbal and nonverbal communication that is inclusive of other individuals
Appreciate Diversity of Expression, Opinion and Perspective
- describe the ways in which selected works of literature and other print and nonprint texts influence individual and group values and behaviours
- identify the underlying assumptions reflected in the ideas and opinions presented in a text
Lessons
- Bias
- Bias in the News
- The Price of Happiness: On Advertising, Image, and Self Esteem
- Crime Perceptions Quiz
- Perceptions of Youth and Crime
- Exposing Gender Stereotypes
- Learning Gender Stereotypes
- The Impact of Gender Role Stereotypes
- Violence and Video Games
- Video Games
- Advertising and Male Violence
- Suffragettes and Iron Ladies