Outcome Chart - British Columbia - English Language Arts 8
Big Ideas
- Stories and other texts can be shared through pictures and words.
- Everyone has a unique story to share.
- Curiosity and wonder lead us to new discoveries about ourselves and the world around us.
- Through listening and speaking, we connect with others and share our world.
- Questioning what we hear, read, and view contributes to our ability to be educated and engaged citizens.
Overall Expectations: Comprehending and Connect (reading, listening, viewing)
- Using oral, written, visual, and digital texts, students are expected individually and collaboratively to be able to:
Specific Expectations:
- Access information and ideas for diverse purposes and from a variety of sources and evaluate their relevance, accuracy, and reliability
- Synthesize ideas from a variety of sources to build understanding
- Recognize and appreciate how different features, forms, and genres of texts reflect different purposes, audiences, and messages
- Think critically, creatively, and reflectively to explore ideas within, between, and beyond texts
- Recognize and identify the role of personal, social, and cultural contexts, values, and perspectives in texts
- Recognize how language constructs personal, social, and cultural identity
- Construct meaningful personal connections between self, text, and world
- Respond to text in personal, creative, and critical ways
- Recognize an increasing range of text structures and how they contribute to meaning
Specific Expectations: Create and Communicate (writing, speaking, presenting)
- Exchange ideas and viewpoints to build shared understanding and extend thinking
- Use writing and design processes to plan, develop, and create engaging and meaningful literary and informational texts for a variety of purposes and audiences
- Assess and refine texts to improve their clarity, effectiveness, and impact according to purpose, audience, and message
- Transform ideas and information to create original texts.
MediaSmarts Resources
- Bias and Crime in Media
- Break the Fake: Verifying Information Online
- Buy Nothing Day
- Police in the Media
- Cyberbullying and Civic Participation
- Cyberbullying and the Law
- Deconstructing Web Pages
- Editing Emotions
- Exposing Gender Stereotypes
- Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising
- I heard it 'round the Internet: Sexual health education and authenticating online information
- Images of Learning
- Impact! How to Make a Difference When You Witness Bullying Online
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising - Lesson 4: Interpreting Media Messages
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 1: Messages About Drinking
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 2: Young Drinkers
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 3: Understanding Brands
- Know the Deal: The Value of Privacy
- Marketing to Teens: Gender Roles in Advertising
- Marketing to Teens: Marketing Tactics
- Marketing to Teens: Talking Back
- Mirror Image
- Mixed Signals: Verifying Online Information
- Online Marketing to Kids: Protecting Your Privacy
- Online Marketing to Kids: Strategies and Techniques
- Put Your Best Face Forward
- Selling Tobacco
- Television Broadcast Ratings
- That's Not Cool
- The Girl in the Mirror
- The Hero Project: Authenticating Online Information
- The Impact of Gender Stereotypes
- The Price of Happiness
- Tobacco Labels
- Video Games
- Watching the Elections
- Winning the Cyber Security Game
- Writing a Newspaper Article