Listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to explore thoughts, ideas, feelings, and experiences
Discover and Explore
- Explore a variety of texts and genres by particular writers, artists, storytellers, and filmmakers outside areas of personal preferences
Clarify and Extend
- Ask discriminating questions and experiment to interpret, evaluate, and reflect on ideas and information; construct hypotheses to explain ambiguities observable in the world
Lessons
- Challenging Hate Online
- The Price of Happiness: On Advertising, Image, and Self Esteem
- Crime Perceptions Quiz
- Free Speech and the Internet
- Hate 2.0
- Hate or Debate?
- Perceptions of Youth and Crime
- Marketing to Teens: Gotta Have It! Designer & Brand Names
- The Function of Music
- You Be the Editor
- Who Knows? Your Privacy in the Information Age
- Crime in the News
- Create a Youth Consumer Magazine
- Magazine Production
- Thinking Like a Tobacco Company: Grades 7-9
- Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising
- Alcohol on the Web
- Don’t Drink and Drive: Assessing the Effectiveness of Anti-Drinking Campaigns
- Truth or Money
- Gender and Tobacco
- 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
- Online Propaganda and the Proliferation of Hate
- Scapegoating and Othering
- Suffragettes and Iron Ladies
- Thinking About Hate
Listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to comprehend and respond personally and critically to oral, print, and other media texts
Use Strategies and Cues
- Use textual cues [such as the structures of prose, poetry, plays, and media texts…], prominent organizational patterns [such as logic, comparison and contrast, problem and solution…] within texts, and stylistic techniques [such as flashbacks, foreshadowing…] to confirm meaning and interpret texts
Respond to Texts
- Experience texts from a variety of genres [such as documentaries, human interest stories, forums, musicals, science fiction…] and cultural traditions; revise interpretations following discussion and review
- Compare the portrayals of people, events, and perspectives of Canadian and international writers, artists, storytellers, and filmmakers
- Examine how word choice in oral, literary, and media texts alters and enhances mood or meaning and affects audience
Understand Forms and Techniques
- Describe various genres of oral, literary, and media texts and identify their strengths and limitations
- Describe how plot, character, and setting contribute to an overall theme, and recognize the effectiveness of oral, verbal, and visual techniques
- Analyse ways in which creative uses of language influence thought, emotion, and meaning; identify how symbols are used to represent abstract ideas
Create Original Text [such as video scripts, debates, editorials, audio tapes with voice and music, speeches, readers’ theatre, formal essays, letters, advertisements…] to
- communicate and demonstrate understanding of forms and meanings
Lessons
- 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
- Hate 2.0
- Hate or Debate?
- Hoax? Scholarly Research? Personal Opinion? You Decide!
- Hype!
- Images of Learning: Secondary
- Individuality vs. Conformity
- Kellogg Special K Ads
- 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
- The Front Page
- Bias in the News
- Fact Versus Opinion
- 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
- Online Propaganda and the Proliferation of Hate
- 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
- Scapegoating and Othering
- Scripting a Crime Drama
- Suffragettes and Iron Ladies
- Television Broadcast Ratings
- The Function of Music
- Thinking About Hate
Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource)
Listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to manage ideas and information
Select and Process
- Identify a range of diverse and specialized information sources [such as magazines, documentaries, hobby or sports materials, multimedia resources?] to satisfy inquiry or research needs
- Evaluate the reliability and credibility of a variety of information sources and perspectives for a particular inquiry or research plan
- Identify and analyze a variety of factors [such as distinctions between fact, emotion, and opinion; distinctions between content and its presentation - colour, angle, movement, framing, and sequencing; the speaker?s or author?s purpose and intention?] that affect meaning; use effective listening, reading and viewing techniques
Lessons
- Challenging Hate Online
- Deconstructing Web Pages
- ICYouSee: A Lesson in Critical Thinking
- Hate 2.0
- Hoax? Scholarly Research? Personal Opinion? You Decide!
- Selling Tobacco
- Perceptions of Youth and Crime
- Bias in the News
- Fact Versus Opinion
- Alcohol on the Web
- Don’t Drink and Drive: Assessing the Effectiveness of Anti-Drinking Campaigns
- The Privacy Dilemma
- Thinking About Hate
Tip Sheet
Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource)
Listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to enhance the clarity and artistry of communication
Generate and Focus
- Experiment with more than one organizational structure for a chosen form of own oral, written, and visual texts
Lessons
- Challenging Hate Online
- Create a Youth Consumer Magazine
- Free Speech and the Internet
- Hate 2.0
- Magazine Production
- Scripting a Crime Drama
- Television Broadcast Ratings
- Images of Learning: Secondary
- Marketing to Teens: Marketing Tactics
- Marketing to Teens: Talking Back
- Marketing to Teens: Parody Ads
- Marketing to Teens: Gotta Have It! Designer & Brand Names
- Online Propaganda and the Proliferation of Hate
- Popular Music and Music Videos
- Radio News
- News Journalism Across the Media: Summative Activities
- Thinking About Hate
- Video Production of a Newscast
Listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to celebrate and build community
Develop and Celebrate Community
- Recognize and act upon the importance of respecting evidence, truth, and the views of others when discussing, describing, or recording experiences
- Recognize and discuss ways in which oral, literary, and media texts reflect cultural and attitudinal influences
- Analyze the role of language and oral, literary, and media texts in revealing and explaining the human condition
Lessons
- Bias
- Bias in the News
- Challenging Hate Online
- Free Speech and the Internet
- The Price of Happiness: On Advertising, Image, and Self Esteem
- Crime Perceptions Quiz
- Hate 2.0
- Hate or Debate?
- Online Propaganda and the Proliferation of Hate
- Perceptions of Youth and Crime
- Exposing Gender Stereotypes
- Learning Gender Stereotypes
- The Impact of Gender Role Stereotypes
- Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising
- Violence and Video Games
- Video Games
- Advertising and Male Violence
- Scapegoating and Othering
- Thinking About Hate