Outcome Chart - Alberta - English Language Arts Grade 8
Listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to explore thoughts, ideas, feelings, and experiences
Discover and Explore
- review, reread and reflect on oral, print and other media texts to explore, confirm or revise understanding
- discuss and respond to ways that forms of oral, print and other media texts enhance or constrain the development and communication of ideas, information and experiences
- pursue personal interest in specific genres by particular writers, artists, storytellers and filmmakers
Lessons
- Comic Book Characters
- Cop Shows
- Freedom to Smoke
- Images of Learning: Elementary
- Media Minute Lesson 3: Audiences negotiate meaning
- Media Minute Lesson 4: Media have commercial implications
- Media Minute Lesson 5: Media have social and political implications
- Put Your Best Face Forward
- Selling Obesity
- Selling Tobacco
- The Price of Happiness: On Advertising, Image, and Self Esteem
- Thinking Like a Tobacco Company: Grades 7-9
- Understanding Cyberbullying: Virtual vs. Physical Worlds
- Video Games
- Violence and Video Games
Student Tutorials
Listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to manage ideas and information
Select and Focus
- develop and use criteria for evaluating the usefulness, currency and reliability of information for a particular research project
Lessons
- Deconstructing Web Pages
- Media Minute Lesson 3: Audiences negotiate meaning
- Media Minute Lesson 4: Media have commercial implications
- Media Minute Lesson 5: Media have social and political implications
Backgrounders
Educational Game
Student Tutorials
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
- Bias in the News
- Media Minute Lesson 4: Media have commercial implications
- Media Minute Lesson 5: Media have social and political implications
- Put Your Best Face Forward
- The Girl in the Mirror
- The Price of Happiness: On Advertising, Image, and Self Esteem
Student Tutorials