Foundations |
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Overall Expectations The Social Construction of Identity: demonstrate an understanding of how identity is socially constructed and internalized, and of the impact of social norms and stereotypes; Power Relations: demonstrate an understanding of the dynamics of power relations in various social contexts; Social Awareness and Individual Action: demonstrate an understanding of the impact individual action can have on equity, social justice, and environmental issues, and of how the media can create awareness of these issues. Specific Expectations Students will:
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Lessons that meet Grade 11 expectations Beyond Media Messages: Media Portrayal of Global Development Making Media for Democratic Citizenship Marketing to Teens: Gender Roles in Advertising Online Propaganda and the Proliferation of Hate Perceptions of Youth and Crime Student Tutorials (Licensed Resource) |
Equity, Social Justice and Change |
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Overall Expectations Ethnocultural Diversity in Canada: describe challenges faced by various racial, cultural, and national communities in Canada and the contributions these communities have made to this country; Equity and Social Justice in Canada: demonstrate an understanding of a range of historical and contemporary Canadian equity and social justice issues; Social Activism: demonstrate an understanding of how social activism can be used to support equity and social justice objectives. Specific Expectations Students will:
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Lessons that meet Grade 11 expectations Beyond Media Messages: Media Portrayal of Global Development Online Propaganda and the Proliferation of Hate Student Tutorials (Licensed Resource) |
Promoting Equity and Social Justice |
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Overall Expectations Respecting Diversity: demonstrate an understanding of how to interact successfully in settings characterized by diversity, including school, workplace, and community settings, and ways to promote respect for diversity in these settings; Human Rights, Equity, and Antidiscrimination: demonstrate an understanding of their rights and responsibilities relating to equity and human rights, and of how to appropriately address situations involving discrimination, harassment, and the denial of rights; Social Action and Personal Engagement: design, implement, and evaluate an initiative to address an equity or social justice issue. Specific Expectations Students will:
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Lessons that meet Grade 11 expectations Beyond Media Messages: Media Portrayal of Global Development |
Research and Inquiry Skills |
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Overall Expectations Investigating: create research plans, and locate and select information relevant to their chosen topics, using appropriate social science research and inquiry methods Processing Information: assess, record, analyse, and synthesize information gathered through research and inquiry Communicating and Reflecting: communicate the results of their research and inquiry clearly and effectively, and reflect on and evaluate their research, inquiry, and communication skills. explore a variety of topics related to identify key concepts (e.g., through discussion, brainstorming, use of visual organizers) related to their selected topics formulate effective questions to guide their research and inquiry create appropriate research plans to investigate their selected topics (e.g., outline purpose and method; identify sources of information), ensuring that their plans follow guidelines for ethical research locate and select information relevant to their investigations from a variety of primary sources based on preliminary research, for each investigation formulate a hypothesis, thesis statement, or research question, and use it to focus their research assess various aspects of information gathered from primary and secondary sources (e.g., accuracy, relevance, reliability, inherent values and bias, voice) analyse and interpret research information synthesize findings and formulate conclusions demonstrate academic honesty by documenting the sources of all information generated through research demonstrate an understanding of the general research process by reflecting on and evaluating their own research, inquiry, and communication skills |
Lessons that meet Secondary expectations Finding and Authenticating Online Information on Global Development Issues I heard it ‘round the Internet: Sexual health education and authenticating online information Online Propaganda and the Proliferation of Hate Perceptions of Youth and Crime What Students Need to Know about Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Student Tutorials (Licensed Resource) |