Overall Expectations
Students will:
- communicate information and ideas effectively and clearly, and to respond personally and critically
- interact with sensitivity and respect, considering the situation, audience, and purpose
- select, read, and view with understanding a range of literature, information, media, and visual texts
- interpret, select, and combine information using a variety of strategies, resources, and technologies
- respond personally to a range of texts
- respond critically to a range of texts, applying their understanding of language, form, and genre
Specific Expectations
Students will:
- critically evaluate information, assessing the suitability, reliability, and credibility of language, form, genre, and source
- understand and appreciate the expectations of research ethics
- investigate reasons for their responses to texts as individuals and as members of a socio-cultural group
- evaluate the political, social, cultural, and emotional connotations embedded in language
- communicate insight into and empathy for the diversity of the human experience
- effectively defend an interpretation of a text or issue
Lessons that meet Grade 12 expectations
- Advertising and Male Violence
- Beyond Media Messages: Media Portrayal of Global Development
- Bias
- Bias and Crime in Media
- Bias in News Sources
- Broadcasting Codes
- Celebrities and World Issues
- Challenging Hate Online
- Cinema Cops
- Crime in the News
- Cyberbullying and the Law
- CyberSense and Nonsense: The Second Adventure of the Three CyberPigs
- Diversity and Media Ownership
- Fact Versus Opinion
- Finding and Authenticating Online Information on Global Development Issues
- First Person
- Forensic Science Crime Dramas
- Free Speech and the Internet
- Hoax? Scholarly Research? Personal Opinion? You Decide!
- How to Analyze the News
- Images of Learning
- Magazine Production
- Making Media for Democratic Citizenship
- Marketing to Teens: Talking Back
- Miscast and Seldom Seen
- Movie Heroes and the Heroic Journey
- Online Propaganda and the Proliferation of Hate
- Perceptions of Youth and Crime
- Reporter For a Day
- Sex in Advertising
- Suffragettes and Iron Ladies
- The Blockbuster Movie
- The Citizen Reporter
- The Front Page
- The Pornography Debate: Controversy in Advertising
- The Privacy Dilemma: Lesson Plan for Senior Classrooms
- Violence on Film: The Ratings Game
- Violence on Television
- Watching the Elections
- What’s in a Word?
- Who’s Telling My Story?
- Writing a Newspaper Article
- You’ve Gotta Have a Gimmick
Student Tutorials (Licensed Resource)