Comprehend and Respond (CR)
Overall Expectations
Students will extend their abilities to view, listen to, read, comprehend, and respond to a variety of contemporary and traditional grade-appropriate texts in a variety of forms (oral, print, and other media) from First Nations, Métis, and other cultures for a variety of purposes including for learning, interest, and enjoyment.
Specific Expectations
CR 20.1 View, listen to, read, comprehend, and respond to a variety of grade-appropriate First Nations, Métis, Saskatchewan, Canadian, and international texts that address:
- identity (e.g., Relationships with Family and Others);
- social responsibility (e.g., Evolving Roles and Responsibilities); and
- social action (agency)(e.g., The Past and the Present).
MediaSmarts Resources
Lessons
- Advertising and Male Violence
- Beyond Media Messages: Media Portrayal of Global Development
- Bias
- Bias and Crime in Media
- Bias in News Sources
- Celebrities and World Issues
- Challenging Hate Online
- Cinema Cops
- Crime in the News
- Diversity and Media Ownership
- Don’t Drink and Drive: Assessing the Effectiveness of Anti-Drinking Campaigns
- Finding and Authenticating Online Information on Global Development Issues
- First Person
- Forensic Science Crime Dramas
- Free Speech and the Internet
- Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising
- Hate 2.0
- Hate or Debate
- How to Analyze the News
- Marketing to Teens: Talking Back
- Online Propaganda and the Proliferation of Hate
- Perceptions of Youth and Crime
- Political Cartoons
- Scapegoating and Othering
- Shaking the Movers: Youth Rights and Media
- Suffragettes and Iron Ladies
- The Citizen Reporter
- The Front Page
- Thinking about Hate
- Viewing a Crime Drama
- Watching the Elections
- Who’s Telling My Story?
- You Be the Editor
Interactive Resources
CR 20.2 View, comprehend, and develop coherent and plausible interpretations of informational and literary First Nations, Métis, Saskatchewan, Canadian, and international texts (including multimedia advertising) that use specialized visual features including illustrations, photographs, art works, maps, charts, graphs.
MediaSmarts Resources
Lessons
- Alcohol on the Web
- Camera Shots
- Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising
- Marketing to Teens: Alternate Ads
- Marketing to Teens: Gotta Have It! Designer & Brand Names
- Online Propaganda and the Proliferation of Hate
- Political Cartoons
- Selling Obesity
- Selling Tobacco
- Watching the Elections
Interactive Resources
Compose and Create (CC)
Overall Expectations
Students will extend their abilities to speak, write, and use other forms of representation to explore and present thoughts, feelings, and experiences in a variety of forms for a variety of purposes and audiences.
Specific Expectations
CC 20.1 Create a range of visual, multimedia, oral, and written texts to explore:
- identity (e.g., Relationships with Family and Others);
- social responsibility (e.g., Evolving Roles and Responsibilities); and
- social action (agency)(e.g., The Past and the Present).
MediaSmarts Resources
Lessons
- Bias and Crime in Media
- Don’t Drink and Drive: Assessing the Effectiveness of Anti-Drinking Campaigns
- First Person
- Images of Learning
- Marketing to Teens: Marketing Tactics
- News Journalism Across the Media: Summative Activities
- The Privacy Dilemma: Lesson Plan for Senior Classrooms
- Watching the Elections
CC 20.3 Speak to present ideas and information appropriately in informal (including discussions and collaborative work) and formal (including an interview, a dramatic reading, and introducing and thanking a speaker) situations.
MediaSmarts Resources
Lessons
- Diversity and Media Ownership
- Free Speech and the Internet
- Gambling in the Media
- Individuality vs. Conformity
- Kellogg Special K Ads
- News Journalism: Definitions and Comments about the News
- Who’s Telling My Story?
CC 20.4 Create a variety of written informational (including an essay of explanation of a process, an application letter and résumé, and an argumentative or a persuasive essay) and literary (including a reflective or personal essay and an analysis of a literary text) communications.
MediaSmarts Resources
Lessons
- Beyond Media Messages: Media Portrayal of Global Development
- Bias
- Bias in News Sources
- Buy Nothing Day
- Cinema Cops
- Comparing Crime Dramas
- Crime in the News
- Crime Perceptions Quiz
- Fact Versus Opinion
- Forensic Science Crime Dramas
- Images of Learning
- Kellogg Special K Ads
- Marketing to Teens: Alternate Ads
- Marketing to Teens: Gotta Have It! Designer & Brand Names
- Marketing to Teens: Talking Back
- Miscast and Seldom Seen
- News Journalism Across the Media: Summative Activities
- Perceptions of Youth and Crime
- Popular Music and Music Videos
- Selling Tobacco
- Shaking the Movers: Youth Rights and Media
- Suffragettes and Iron Ladies
- Television Broadcast Ratings
- Television News
- The Citizen Reporter
- The Front Page
- Viewing a Crime Drama
- Violence on Film: The Ratings Game
- Who Knows? Your Privacy in the Information Age
- Who’s Telling My Story?
- You Be the Editor