Outcome Chart - Alberta - English Language Arts 9
Listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to explore thoughts, ideas, feelings, and experiences
Discover and Explore
- talk with others and experience a variety of oral, print and other media texts to explore, develop and justify own opinions and points of view
- explore and explain how interactions with others and with oral, print and other media texts affect personal understandings
- extend understanding by taking different points of view when rereading and reflecting on oral, print and other media texts
- explain preferences for texts and genres by particular writers, artists, storytellers and filmmakers
Clarify and Extend
- integrate own perspectives and interpretations with new understandings developed through discussing and through experiencing a variety of oral, print and other media texts
Lessons
- Alcohol on the Web
- Cop Shows
- Crime in the News
- Don’t Drink and Drive: Assessing the Effectiveness of Anti-Drinking Campaigns
- Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising
- Images of Learning: Secondary
- Marketing to Teens: Gotta Have It! Designer & Brand Names
- My Voice is Louder Than Hate: The Impact of Hate
- My Voice is Louder Than Hate: Pushing Back Against Hate
- News Journalism Across the Media: Introduction
- Television Broadcast Ratings
- The Girl in the Mirror
- The Price of Happiness: On Advertising, Image, and Self Esteem
- The Privacy Dilemma
- Thinking Like a Tobacco Company: Grades 7-9
- Truth or Money
Listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to comprehend and respond personally and critically to oral, print, and other media texts
Use Strategies and Cues
- discuss how interpretations of the same text might vary, according to the prior knowledge and experience of various readers
Respond to Texts
- experience oral, print and other media texts from a variety of cultural traditions and genres
- identify and discuss how timeless themes are developed in a variety of oral, print and other media texts
- consider historical context when developing own points of view or interpretations of oral, print and other media texts
- compare and contrast own life situation with themes of oral, print and other media texts
- express the themes of oral, print or other media texts in different forms or genres
- analyze how the choices and motives of characters portrayed in oral, print and other media texts provide insight into those of self and others
- identify and discuss theme and point of view in oral print and other media texts
- discuss and explain various interpretations of the same oral, print or other media text
- discuss how techniques, such as irony, symbolism, perspective and proportion communicate meaning and enhance effect in oral, print and other media texts
- identify features that define particular oral, print and other media texts; discuss differences in style and their effects on content and audience impression
Understand Forms and Techniques
- explain the relationship between purposes and characteristics of various forms and genres of oral, print and other media texts
- evaluate the effectiveness of different types of media texts for presenting ideas and information
- summarize the content of media texts, and suggest alternative treatments
- analyze creative uses of language and visuals in popular culture, such as advertisements, electronic magazines and the Internet; recognize how imagery and figurative language, such as metaphor, create a dominant impression, mood and tone
Create Original Text
- generalize from own experience to create oral, print and other media texts on a theme
Lessons
- Cop Shows
- Images of Learning: Secondary
- My Voice is Louder Than Hate: The Impact of Hate
- My Voice is Louder Than Hate: Pushing Back Against Hate
- Popular Music and Music Videos
- The Girl in the Mirror
Educational Game
Listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to manage ideas and information
Select and Focus
- evaluate sources for currency, reliability and possible bias of information for a particular research project
Lessons
Backgrounders
Educational Game
Listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to respect, support and collaborate with others
Respect Others and Strengthen Community
- compare own with others’ understanding of people, cultural traditions and values portrayed in oral, print and other media texts
- clarify and broaden perspectives and opinions, by examining the ideas of others
- compare ways in which oral, print and other media texts reflect specific elements of cultures or periods in history
Lessons