Overall Expectations
- Students will be expected to communicate information and ideas effectively and clearly, and to respond personally and critically
- Students will be expected to select, read and view with understanding a range of literature, information, media and visual arts
- Students will be expected to interpret, select and combine information using a variety of strategies, resources and technologies.
- Students will be expected to respond critically to a range of texts, applying their understanding of language, form and genre
- Students will be expected to create texts collaboratively and independently, using a variety of forms for a range of audiences
Specific Expectations
Students will be expected to:
- Listen and respond critically to information and ideas
- Use knowledge of texts to determine meaning:
- identify genre
- identify features of different genres
- tell how different features contribute to constructing meaning
- Read, with understanding, a variety of texts:
- media texts and advertising aimed at teens
- Carry out research projects with guidance:
- use at least 2 sources for research
- locate relevant information
- Recognize that texts are constructed for a particular purpose:
- identify author’s purpose
- identify audience
- Recognize that texts are constructed from a particular perspective:
- identify author’s message(s)
- identify bias, stereotypes, portrayals of people, cultures, etc.
- Work collaboratively to create a text, considering form, audience and purpose:
- multimedia product, poster or display
- short drama (skit)
- informational report and presentation/display
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Lessons that meet 1205 expectations
Advertising and Male Violence
Alcohol Myths
Alcohol on the Web
Bias
Bias and Crime in Media
Bias in News Sources
Challenging Hate Online
Cinema Cops
Comparing Crime Dramas
Deconstructing Web Pages
Diversity and Media Ownership
Don’t Drink and Drive: Assessing the Effectiveness of Anti-Drinking Campaigns
Exposing Gender Stereotypes
Finding and Authenticating Online Information on Global Development Issues
Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising
Hoax? Scholarly Research? Personal Opinion? You Decide!
Hype!
ICYouSee: A Lesson in Critical Thinking
I heard it ‘round the Internet: Sexual health education and authenticating online information
Images of Learning
Learning Gender Stereotypes
Magazine Production
Making Media for Democratic Citizenship
Marketing to Teens: Alternate Ads
Marketing to Teens: Gender Roles in Advertising
Marketing to Teens: Gotta Have It! Designer & Brand Names
Marketing to Teens: Marketing Tactics
Marketing to Teens: Talking Back
Miscast and Seldom Seen
Online Marketing to Kids: Protecting Your Privacy
Online Marketing to Kids: Strategies and Techniques
Perceptions of Youth and Crime
Scripting a Crime Drama
Selling Obesity
Selling Tobacco
Sex in Advertising
Sports Personalities in Magazine Advertising
Suffragettes and Iron Ladies
Taming the Wild Wiki
The Front Page
The Girl in the Mirror
The Impact of Gender Stereotypes
Thinking Like a Citizen
Thinking Like a Tobacco Company
Tobacco Labels
Truth or Money
Video Production of a Newscast
Viewing a Crime Drama
Watching the Elections
Who’s Telling My Story?
Writing a Newspaper Article
Educational Game
Click if You Agree
Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource)
MyWorld
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