Listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to explore thoughts, ideas, feelings, and experiences
Discover and Explore
- discuss with peers preferences for texts and genres by particular writers, artists, storytellers, and filmmakers
Lessons
- Hate 2.0
- Hate or Debate?
- The Price of Happiness: On Advertising, Image, and Self Esteem
- The Function of Music
- You Be the Editor
- Who Knows? Your Privacy in the Information Age
- Viewing a Crime Drama
- Comparing Crime Dramas
- Crime in the News
- Images of Learning: Secondary
- Cop Shows
- Thinking Like a Tobacco Company: Grades 7-9
- Truth or Money
- Television Broadcast Ratings
- News Journalism Across the Media: Introduction
- Definitions and Comments about the News
- The Newspaper Front Page
- Radio News
- Scapegoating and Othering
- News Journalism Across the Media: Summative Activities
- The Girl in the Mirror
- 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 common literary, expository, and media text structures] and prominent organizational patterns [such as chronology, cause and effect, comparison and contrast, problem and solution] within texts to construct and confirm meaning and interpret texts
Respond to Texts
- experience texts from a variety of forms and genres [such as essays, broadcast advertisements, romantic literature] and cultural traditions; explain various interpretations of the same text
- examine how personal experiences, community traditions, and Canadian perspectives are presented in oral, literary, and media texts
- discuss how word choice and supporting details in oral, literary, and media texts [including drama and oral presentations] affect purpose and audience
Understand Forms and Techniques
- explain preferences for particular forms and genres of oral, literary and media texts
- examine the use of a variety of techniques [including establishing setting, characterization, and stereotyping] to portray gender, cultures, and socio-economic groups in oral, literary and media texts
- appreciate variations in language, accent, and dialect in Canadian communities and regions; recognize the derivation and use of words, phrases, and jargon
- examine creative uses of language in popular culture [including advertisements, magazines, and music]; recognize how figurative language and techniques create a dominant impression, mood, tone and style
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
- Popular Music and Music Videos
- Images of Learning: Secondary
- Cop Shows
- Comparing Crime Dramas
- Hate 2.0
- Hate or Debate?
- The Function of Music
- Alcohol Myths
- Gender Messages in Alcohol
- Advertising Alcohol on the Web
- Don’t Drink and Drive: Assessing the Effectiveness of Anti-Drinking Campaigns
- Tobacco Labels
- You Be the Editor
- Perceptions of Youth and Crime
- Kellogg Special K Ads
- Political Cartoons
- Scapegoating and Othering
- The Girl in the Mirror
- Thinking About Hate
Educational Game
Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource)
listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to manage ideas and information
Plan and Process
- develop focused questions to establish a purpose for reading, listening and viewing information sources
- prepare and use a plan to access, gather, and evaluate information and ideas from a variety of human, print, and electronic sources
Select and Process
- obtain information and varied perspectives when inquiring or researching using a range information sources [such as expository essays, radio and television transcripts, charts, tables, graphs, diagrams]
- evaluate information sources for possible bias using criteria designed for a particular inquiry or research plan
- expand and use a variety to skills [including visual and auditory] to access information and ideas from a variety of sources [including on-line catalogues, periodical indices, broadcast guides, film libraries, and electronic databases]
- identify a variety of factors [such as organizational patterns of text, page layouts, font styles, colour, voice-over, camera angle] that affect meaning; scan to locate specific information quickly; summarize, report, and record main ideas of extended oral, visual, and written text
Lessons
- Deconstructing Web Pages
- Hate 2.0
- ICYouSee: A Lesson in Critical Thinking
- The Privacy Dilemma
- Thinking About Hate
Student Handouts/Activities
Educational Game
Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource)
listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to enhance the clarity and artistry of communication
Generate and Focus
- Use a variety of techniques to generate and select ideas for oral, written, visual aids
- Adapt specific forms [such as book and film reviews, editorials, multimedia presentations, newscasts, letters, essays, poetry, myths, prose] to match content, audience, and purpose
- Identify and use a variety of organizational patterns [such as flashbacks, cause and effect, comparison and contrast, problem and solution] in own oral, written and visual texts; use effective transitions
Lessons
- Comparing Crime Dramas
- Cinema Cops
- Crime in the News
- Crime Perceptions Quiz
- Creating a Marketing Frenzy
- Create a Youth Consumer Magazine
- Deconstructing Web Pages
- Defining Pop Culture
- Hate 2.0
- ICYouSee: A Lesson in Critical Thinking
- Marketing to Teens: Marketing Tactics
- Marketing to Teens: Talking Back
- Marketing to Teens: Parody Ads
- Marketing to Teens: Gotta Have It! Designer & Brand Names
- Popular Music and Music Videos
- Radio News
- News Journalism Across the Media: Summative Activities
- Scripting a Crime Drama
- Selling Obesity
- Alcohol Myths
- Gender Messages in Alcohol
- Advertising Alcohol on the Web
- Don’t Drink and Drive: Assessing the Effectiveness of Anti-Drinking Campaigns
- Selling Tobacco
- The Broadcast Project
- The True Story
- Thinking About Hate
- Thinking Like a Citizen
- Tobacco Labels
- Video Production of a Newscast
- Video Games
- Viewing a Crime Drama
- Writing a Newspaper Article
- You Be the Editor
listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to celebrate and build community
Develop and Celebrate Community
- Explain ways in which oral, literary, and media texts reflect topics and themes in life
- Reflect on ways in which the choices and motives of individuals encountered in oral, literary, and media texts provide insight into those of self and others; discuss personal participation and responsibilities in a variety of communities
Teaching Units
- Exposing Gender Stereotypes
- Learning Gender Stereotypes
- The Impact of Gender Role Stereotypes
- Bias
- Bias in the News
- The Price of Happiness: On Advertising, Image, and Self Esteem
- Comparing Crime Dramas
- Cinema Cops
- Crime in the News
- Crime Perceptions Quiz
- Hate 2.0
- Hate or Debate?
- Kellogg Special K Ads
- Violence and Video Games
- Perceptions of Youth and Crime
- Images of Learning: Secondary
- Scapegoating and Othering
- Thinking About Hate