Author: MediaSmarts
Level: Secondary Cycle Two
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Lesson Link: Violence on Television
Description: This lesson will introduce students to the organizations of the Canadian broadcasting industry, and to the codes, guidelines and issues relating to violence in television and radio programming.
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This lesson satisfies the following English Language Arts Competencies from the Quebec Education Program:
COMPETENCY 2 Reads and listens to written, spoken and media texts
Constructing a Reading of a Text
- Focuses on the relationship between self as reader and the text to construct an interpretive reading
- Activates relevant prior personal knowledge and experience to make sense of a text which is frequently expressed in text-to-self connections, text-to-world connections, text-to-text connections
- Asks questions of self, writers(s) and text(s) as s/he reads to clarify and focus reading
- Determines the most important ideas/messages/themes in a text
- Retells or synthesizes what s/he has read, e.g. attends to the most important information and the quality of the synthesis itself to better understand the text
COMPETENCY 3 Produces texts for personal and social purposes
Researching as a Writer/Producer
- Develops topics that are personally and socially relevant:
- looks at multiple perspectives on the topic, e.g. pros and cons of an argument, how different people perceive the issue
- broadens and/or narrows the scope of the topic
Public and Private Space
Examines the difference between producing texts for private and public audiences:
- questions issues of ownership, intellectual property, creative freedom, boundaries of genres
Production Process
Media Practices
- Examines issues of media ownership and control
Planning and Drafting
- Brainstorms ideas, clarifies and extends thinking by talking with peers and teacher