Listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to explore thoughts, ideas, feelings, and experiences
Form Tentative Understandings, Interpretations and Positions
- draw from a repertoire of effective strategies to form tentative understandings, interpretations and positions
Experiment with Language, Image and Structure
- explain how experiments with language, image and structure improve personal craft and increase effectiveness as a text creator
Consider New Perspectives
- recognize and assess the strengths and limitations of various perspectives on a theme, issue or topic; and identify aspects for further consideration when exploring and responding to texts
- analyze and evaluate how various topics and themes, text forms, text types and text creators influence own and others’ understandings, attitudes and aspirations
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
- cultivate appreciation for a variety of genres, text creators and texts in translation from other countires
Lessons
- The Price of Happiness: On Advertising, Image, and Self Esteem
- Magazine Production
- 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
- The Broadcast Project
- Popular Music and Music Videos
- 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
- explain the text creator’s purpose, including implicit purpose when applicable, describe whether or not the purpose was achieved and assess the suitability of the text to the target audience
- describe how societal forces can influence the production of texts explain the relationships between text and context, in terms of how elements in an environment can affect the way in which text is created identify the impact that personal context – experience, prior knowledge – has on constructing meaning from a text
Understand and Interpret Content
- analyze the personality traits, roles, relationships, motivations, attitudes and values of characters developed/persons presented in literature and other texts; and explain how the use of archetypes can contribute to the development of other textual elements, such as theme
- assess the contributions that visual and aural elements make to the meaning of texts
Relate Form, Structure and Medium to Purpose, Audience and Content
- assess the potential influence of various audience factors on a text creator’s choice of form and medium
Lessons
These outcomes can be found in many lessons available from the Lesson Library, including:
- Selling Tobacco
- 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
- Violence on Television
- Broadcasting Codes
- Suffragettes and Iron Ladies
Relate Elements, Devices and Techniques to Created Effects
- assess the contributions of textual elements and stylistic techniques to the creation of atmosphere, tone and voice
- assess the use of musical devices, figures of speech and sensory details to create effects in a variety of print and nonprint texts
- explain the contribution of motif and symbol to controlling idea and theme
- assess the use of persuasive techniques and their effects on audience
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
- Sex in Advertising
- The Pornography Debate: Controversy in Advertising
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
- form positions on issues that arise from text study; and assess the ideas, information, arguments, emotions, experiences, values and beliefs expressed in works of literature and other texts in light of issues that are personally meaningful and culturally significant
- respond personally and critically to the 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
- Who Knows? Your Privacy in the Information Age
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
- analyze and assess images in print and nonprint texts in terms of created reality and appropriateness to purpose and audience
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
- appreciate the craft of the text creator and the shape and substance of literature and other texts
Lessons
- Selling Tobacco
- Perceptions of Youth and Crime
- Bias in the News
- Fact Versus Opinion
- How to Analyze the News
- Suffragettes and Iron Ladies
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
- develop and draw from a repertoire of effective strategies and technologies for gathering, generating and recording information
Evaluate Sources, and Assess Information
- reflect on and describe strategies for evaluating information sources and for detecting bias; select and monitor appropriate strategies; and modify selected strategies as needed to evaluate sources and detect bias
- assess information sources for credibility and for appropriateness to purpose, audience and presentation form
- assess the accuracy, completeness and currency of information selected from sources; and assess the relevance and appropriateness of the information to purpose
- identify and describe possible biases and vested interests of sources; and explain how underlying assumptions, biases, and positive or negative spin affect the credibility of sources
Lessons
Resources
Student Tutorial (Licensed Resources)
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
- analyze audience factors that affect text creation, and explain how consideration of audience factors has affected choices made while creating a text
Consider and Address Form, Structure and Medium
- select, or develop, a text form appropriate to the purpose for text creation and consistent with the content to be presented in the text
- use a variety of complex structures consistent with form, content and purpose when creating texts; and explain reasons for choices
- select an effective medium appropriate to content and context, and explain the interplay of medium, context and content
- understand the concept of convention; and apply it to oral, print, visual and multimedia text forms when appropriate
- depart from the conventions of oral, print, visual and multimedia texts, as appropriate to purpose, audience and situation and assess the impact on text creation
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
Use Production, Publication and Presentation Strategies and Technologies Consistent with Content
- meet production, publication and display requirements for print texts as appropriate to purpose, audience, and situation
- adapt presentation strategies to suit changes in 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; used in literature and other texts to convey respectful and considerate, or disrespectful and inconsiderate, perspectives and attitudes
- analyze and describe positive or negative portrayals of characters in literature and persons in life, and be sensitive to the feelings of others
- analyze behavioural expectations of a communication situation, explain how verbal and nonverbal communication 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
- explain how selected works of literature and other print and nonprint texts convey, shape and, at times, challenge individual and group values and behaviours
- explain how a text creator’s underlying assumptions influence his or her ideas, opinions and selection of supporting details
Lessons
- The Citizen Reporter
- Sex in Advertising - Lesson
- The Pornography Debate: Controversy in Advertising
- Broadcasting Codes
- Violence on Television
- Bias
- Bias in the News
- The Price of Happiness: On Advertising, Image, and Self Esteem
- Crime Perceptions Quiz
- Perceptions of Youth and Crime
- Advertising and Male Violence
- Images of Learning: Secondary
- Suffragettes and Iron Ladies