What do Halloween costumes say?
This activity, adaptable across grades, is designed to help students look critically at the Halloween costumes marketed to them.
Outcome Chart – Ontario – Expressions of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Cultures Grade 9
C: Foundations
Overall Expectations:
C2. Themes and Influences
C3. Conventions and Responsible Practices
New Brunswick - English Language Arts Foundational 11
Strand: Interactions
Big Idea: Expression
Skill Descriptor:
Construct and communicate an awareness of self, others, and the world.
Achievement Indicators:
Take ideas, knowledges, and ways of being into account when advocating for, explaining, or presenting perspectives
Present with intention, using content, language, and delivery to convey meaning
Outcome Chart - British Columbia - English Language Arts - New Media 11
Big Ideas:
- People understand text differently depending on their worldviews and perspectives.
- Texts are socially, culturally, geographically, and historically constructed.
- Digital citizenship requires both knowledge of digital technology and awareness of its impact on individuals and society.
Overall Expectations: Comprehend and Connect (reading, listening, viewing)
Political Studies 12
Curricular Competencies
Students are expected to be able to do the following:
The Good Things About Television
Television is an inescapable part of modern culture. We depend on TV for entertainment, news, education, culture, weather, sports—and even music, since the advent of music videos.
Outcome Chart - Manitoba - Cinema as a Witness to Modern History Social Studies 12
Outcome Chart - Manitoba - Cinema as a Witness to Modern History Social Studies 12
Saskatchewan - Arts Education 30
K-12 Creative/Productive (CP) Goal: Students will inquire, create and communicate through dance, drama, music and visual art.
CP30.1 Investigate creative processes for producing arts expressions.
Indicators
a. Investigate inspiration and departure points for own artistic work.
b. Engage in creative processes to develop artistic projects individually or collaboratively (e.g., choreographic process, visual art-making process, music composition process, dramatic/theatrical process).
General Sociology 20
Culture
culture
cultural values, norms and sanctions
deviations from cultural norms
culture and personality
Outcome Chart - Nova Scotia - English Language Arts Grade 2
Overall Expectations: Listening and Speaking
- Learners will interact using effective oral language skills considering audience, purpose, and situation.
Specific Expectations:
- express and explain opinions, and respond to questions of others
- sustain focused one-to-one conversations and actively contribute to small- and large-group interaction