Outcome Chart - Atlantic Provinces - English Language Arts 9
Overall Expectations
- communicate information and ideas effectively and clearly, and to respond personally and critically select, read, and view with understanding a range of literature, information, media, and visual texts
- interpret, select, and combine information using a variety of strategies, resources, and technologies
- respond personally to a range of texts
- respond critically to a range of texts, applying their understanding of language, form, and genre
Specific Expectations
By the end of Grade 9, students will be expected to:
- respond critically to texts
- ask relevant questions calling for elaboration, clarification, or qualification, and respond thoughtfully to such questions
- independently access and select specific information to meet personal and learning needs
- analyse and assess responses to their writing and media productions
- ask relevant questions calling for elaboration, clarification, or qualification, and respond thoughtfully to such questions
- develop approaches and strategies to conduct their research
- integrate information from several sources to construct and communicate meaning
- use available electronic networks
- communicate using technology for a range of purposes with a variety of audiences
Lessons that meet Grade 9 expectations
- Beyond Media Messages: Media Portrayal of Global Development
- Bias and Crime in Media
- Celebrities and World Issues
- Deconstructing Web Pages
- Exposing Gender Stereotypes
- Finding and Authenticating Online Information on Global Development Issues
- Gender and Tobacco
- Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising
- Hate 2.0
- Hate or Debate
- I heard it ‘round the Internet: Sexual health education and authenticating online information
- Learning Gender Stereotypes
- Marketing to Teens: Alternate Ads
- Marketing to Teens: Gender Roles in Advertising
- Marketing to Teens: Gotta Have It! Designer & Brand Names
- Marketing to Teens: Marketing Tactics
- Marketing to Teens: Talking Back
- My Voice is Louder Than Hate: The Impact of Hate
- My Voice is Louder Than Hate: Pushing Back Against Hate
- Online Marketing to Kids: Protecting Your Privacy
- Online Marketing to Kids: Strategies and Techniques
- Scapegoating and Othering
- Selling Tobacco
- Sports Personalities in Magazine Advertising
- Taming the Wild Wiki
- The Price of Happiness
- The Girl in the Mirror
- The Impact of Gender Stereotypes
- Thinking about Hate
- Thinking Like a Tobacco Company
- Tobacco Labels
- Truth or Money
- Understanding Cyberbullying: Virtual vs. Physical Worlds
- Up, Up and Away? (TM)
- Video Games
- Video Production of a Newscast
- Watching the Elections
- Writing a Newspaper Article
Educational Games