Outcome Chart - Atlantic Provinces - English Language Arts 8
Speaking and Listening
Overall Expectations
Students will be expected to interact with sensitivity and respect, considering the situation, audience, and purpose.
Specific Expectations
- Recognize that values and attitudes such as bias, beliefs, and prejudice can be reflected in spoken language
- Examine how spoken language can be used to influence and manipulate
MediaSmarts Resources
Lessons
- Exposing Gender Stereotypes
- Freedom to Smoke
- Gender and Tobacco
- Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising
- Images of Learning: Elementary
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising: Interpreting Media Messages
- Learning Gender Stereotypes
- Marketing to Teens: Introduction
- Marketing to Teens: Marketing Tactics
- Media Minute Lesson 3: Audiences negotiate meaning
- Media Minute Lesson 4: Media have commercial implications
- Media Minute Lesson 5: Media have social and political implications
- Perceptions of Youth and Crime
- Selling Tobacco
- Sports Personalities in Magazine Advertising
- The Impact of Gender Role Stereotypes
- The Price of Happiness: On Advertising, Image, and Self Esteem
- Thinking About Hate
- Tobacco Labels
- Video Games
- Violence in Sports
- Who’s On First: Alcohol Advertising and Sports
Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource)
Reading and Viewing
Overall Expectations
Students will be expected to interpret, select, and combine information using a variety of strategies, resources, and technologies.
Specific Expectations
- Evaluate the reliability of information from various sources
- Compare information from a variety of sources
- Use effective research approaches and strategies
MediaSmarts Resources
- Deconstructing Web Pages
- Hate or Debate?
- Hate 2.0
- I heard it ‘round the Internet: Sexual health education and authenticating online information
- Scientific Detectives
- Taming the Wild Wiki
- Thinking about Hate
- What Students Need to Know about Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy
Educational Game
Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource)
Overall Expectations
Students will be expected to respond critically to a range of texts, applying their understanding of language, form and genre.
Specific Expectations
- Recognize that texts can be biased
- Demonstrate an awareness that values and personal experiences influence understanding of and critical responses to texts
- Describe the portrayal of culture and reality in texts
MediaSmarts Resources
- Beyond Media Messages: Media Portrayal of Global Development
- Bias and Crime in Media
- Celebrities and World Issues
- Gender and Tobacco
- Hate 2.0
- Hate or Debate?
- Image Gap
- Images of Learning
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 1: Messages About Drinking
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 2: Young Drinkers
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 4: Interpreting Media Messages
- Learning Gender Stereotypes
- Media Minute Lesson 3: Audiences negotiate meaning
- Media Minute Lesson 4: Media have commercial implications
- Media Minute Lesson 5: Media have social and political implications
- Perceptions of Youth and Crime
- Promoting Ethical Behaviour Online: Our Values and Ethics
- Put Your Best Face Forward
- Scapegoating and Othering
- The Girl in the Mirror
- The Impact of Gender Stereotypes
- Thinking about Hate
- Truth or Money
- TV Dads: Immature and Irresponsible?
- That’s Not Cool
Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource)
Writing and Representing
Overall Expectations
Students will be expected to use a range of strategies to develop effective writing and representing and to enhance their clarity, precision, and effectiveness.
Specific Expectations
- Choose the writing and representing strategies that help create a variety of texts
- Use various technologies in communicating for a range of purposes with a variety of audiences
MediaSmarts Resources
- Bias and Crime in Media
- Buy Nothing Day
- Cop Shows
- Cyberbullying and Civic Participation
- Cyberbullying and the Law
- Hate or Debate?
- Images of Learning
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 3: Understanding Brands
- Marketing to Teens: Marketing Tactics
- Marketing to Teens: Talking Back
- Online Marketing to Kids: Protecting Your Privacy
- Perceptions of Youth and Crime
- Promoting Ethical Behaviour Online: Our Values and Ethics
- Put Your Best Face Forward
- Selling Tobacco
- Taming the Wild Wiki
- That’s Not Cool
- Television Broadcast Ratings
- The Girl in the Mirror
- The Price of Happiness
- Understanding Cyberbullying : Virtual vs. Physical Worlds
- Watching the Elections
- Who’s on First? Alcohol Advertising and Sports
- Writing a Newspaper Article
- Video Games
- Violence and Video Games
Student Tutorials (Licensed Resource)