The Concept of Culture |
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Overall Expectations Cultural Dynamics: analyse how cultural identities are socially constructed, preserved, transmitted, and transformed; Specific Expectations Students will:
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Lessons that meet Grade 12 expectations Beyond Media Messages: Media Portrayal of Global Development Finding and Authenticating Online Information on Global Development Issues |
Cultural Expressions |
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Overall Expectations Cultural Expressions in Context: analyse specific cultural expressions and a range of factors that can affect them; Specific Expectations Students will:
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Lessons that meet Grade 12 expectations |
Critical Cultural Issues |
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Overall Expectations Power Relations: demonstrate an understanding of the dynamics of power relations within specific cultural groups and between minority and majority cultures; Policies and Issues: demonstrate an understanding of past and present policies and issues affecting cultural diversity in Canada, and compare approaches to such policy in Canada with those in other countries; Social Action and Personal Engagement: design, implement, and evaluate an initiative to address an issue related to cultural groups or promoting cultural diversity. Specific Expectations Students will:
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Lessons that meet Grade 12 expectations Beyond Media Messages: Media Portrayal of Global Development Finding and Authenticating Online Information on Global Development Issues |
Research and Inquiry Skills |
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Overall Expectations Exploring: explore topics related to world cultures and/or cultural groups, and formulate questions to guide their research 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. Specific Expectations Students will: explore a variety of topics related to explore a variety of topics related to equity and social justice 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) |