Speaking and Listening
Students will be expected to interact with sensitivity and respect, considering the situation, audience, and purpose.
- demonstrate how spoken language influences and manipulates, and reveals ideas, values, and attitudes
- address the demands of a variety of speaking situations, making critical language choices, especially of tone and style
Lessons
- Challenging Hate Online
- Free Speech and the Internet
- Hype!
- Online Propaganda and the Proliferation of Hate
- Television Newscasts
- Video Production of a Newscast
Reading and Viewing
Students will be expected to respond personally to a range of texts.
- make informed personal responses to increasingly challenging print and media texts and reflect on their responses
- make connections between their own values, beliefs, and cultures and those reflected in literary and media texts
- analyse thematic connections among texts and articulate an understanding of the universality of many themes
- demonstrate a willingness to explore diverse perspectives to develop or modify their points of view
- articulate and justify points of view about texts and text elements
- interpret ambiguities in complex and sophisticated texts
Lessons
- Advertising and Male Violence
- Bias
- Camera Shots
- Challenging Hate Online
- Cinema Cops
- Comparing Crime Dramas
- Crime in the News
- Crime Perceptions Quiz
- Defining Pop Culture
- Free Speech and the Internet
- Hoax? Scholarly Research? Personal Opinion? You Decide!
- How to Analyze the News
- Hype!
- Images of Learning: Secondary
- Individuality vs. Conformity
- Kellogg Special K Ads
- Magazine Production
- 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
- Movie Heroes and the Heroic Journey
- Online Propaganda and the Proliferation of Hate
- The Front Page
- Bias in the News
- Fact Versus Opinion
- Perceptions of Youth and Crime
- Popular Music and Music Videos
- Political Cartoons
- The Price of Happiness: On Advertising, Image, and Self Esteem
- The Privacy Dilemma
- Scripting a Crime Drama
- Suffragettes and Iron Ladies
- Television Broadcast Ratings
- Television Newscasts
- The Blockbuster Movie
- The Function of Music
- The Pornography Debate: Controversy in Advertising
- Sex in Advertising
- Viewing a Crime Drama
- Violence on Film: The Ratings Game
- You Be the Editor
Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource)
Writing and Other Ways of Representing
Students will be expected to create texts collaboratively and independently, using a variety of forms for a range of audiences and purposes
- produce writing and other forms of representation characterized by increasing complexity of thought, structure, and conventions
- demonstrate an understanding of the ways in which the construction of texts can create, enhance, or control meaning
- make critical choices of form, style, and content to address increasingly complex demands of different purposes and audiences
- evaluate the responses of others to their writing and media production
Lessons
- Challenging Hate Online
- Create a Youth Consumer Magazine
- Free Speech and the Internet
- 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
- Online Propaganda and the Proliferation of Hate
- The Privacy Dilemma
- News Journalism Across the Media: Summative Activities
- Video Production of a Newscast