By the end of this course, students will:
Personal Knowledge
Generations of North American children have grown up watching “cowboys and Indians” films and TV shows and reading books such as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Little House on the Prairie. Popular films and novels reinforced the notion that Indigenous people existed only in the past—forever chasing buffalo or being chased by the cavalry. These images showed them as destined to remain on the margins of “real” society. Such impressions and childhood beliefs, set at an early age, are often the hardest to shake: as Anishinaabe writer Jesse Wente explains, “In the absence of appropriate representations of Indigenous Peoples in the media, misrepresentations become the accepted ‘truth.’”[1]
Using oral, written, visual, and digital texts, students are expected individually and collaboratively to be able to:
Outcome Chart - Nova Scotia - English / English/Communications 11
Using oral, written, visual, and digital texts, students are expected individually and collaboratively to be able to:
C1. Reading for meaning
E1. Understanding Media Texts: Purpose and Audience
E1. Understanding Media Texts: Critical Literacy
This outcome chart contains media education learning outcomes from the Ontario, Curriculum for English, Grade 11, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Ontario Introduction to Computer Programming 11 College ISC3C curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.
Goals, Growth, and Grit: Skills for Success 120 will provide students with skills in three main areas - positive and productive mindsets and behaviours, organizational patterns, as well as functional and critical literacy. Within the broad learning expectations of the course, specific success skills, strategies, and practices will be explored. Students will be supported to apply and transfer these skills, strategies, and practices to other courses and real-life situations. Students will learn how these support postgraduate pursuits
GLO 3.1: Demonstrate an understanding of broadcasting theory.
11A.3.1.3 Discuss the roles and responsibilities of each member of a multicamera production team, including the director, camera operator, switcher, audio operator, and video playback operator.