My Voice is Louder Than Hate: Pushing Back Against Hate

Level: Grades 9 to 10

About the Author: Matthew Johnson, Director of Education, MediaSmarts

Duration: 1 to 1 ½ hours

This lesson is part of the My Voice is Louder Than Hate program. This program was possible with financial contributions from Public Safety Canada’s Community Resilience Fund.

Outcome Chart - Nova Scotia - English Language Arts Grade 1

Overall Expectations: Listening and Speaking

• Learners will interact using effective oral language skills considering audience, purpose, and situation.

Specific Expectations:

• express opinions and give simple explanations
• begin to talk in focused one-to-one conversations and contribute to small- and large-group interactions
• demonstrate a growing awareness of respectful and non-hurtful vocabulary choices

Outcome Chart - Alberta - English Language Arts 7

This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Alberta, Grade 7 English Language Arts curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

Learning Gender Stereotypes

This is the second of three lessons that address gender stereotypes. The objective of these lessons is to encourage students to develop their own critical intelligence with regard to culturally inherited stereotypes, and to the images presented in the media - film and television, rock music, newspapers and magazines.The lesson begins with a review of stereotypes that are associated with men and women and their possible sources - including the role of the media. Students deconstruct a series of advertisements based on gender representation and answer questions about gender stereotyping about articles they have read.

New Media 12

Curriculum Competencies

Using oral, written, visual, and digital texts, students are expected individually and collaboratively to be able to:

Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing)

Keeping up with kids in a wireless world

By Samantha McAleese, research associate at MediaSmarts and
David Fowler, vice-president, marketing and communications at CIRA.

Outcome Chart - Manitoba - Social Studies 7

This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Manitoba, Grade 7 Social Studies curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

Outcome Chart - Manitoba - Social Studies 8

This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Manitoba, Grade 8 Social Studies curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.

Who's Telling My Story?

In this lesson students learn about the history of blackface and other examples of majority-group actors playing minority-group characters such as White actors playing Asian and Aboriginal characters and non-disabled actors playing disabled characters.

Outcome Chart - Newfoundland and Labrador - Health Education Grade 7

This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Newfoundland and Labrador Grade 7 Health Education with links to supporting resources on the MediaSmarts site.