Outcome Chart - British Columbia - English Language Arts 7
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
- Understand how literary elements, techniques, and devices enhance and shape meaning
- 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
- Buy Nothing Day
- Police in the Media
- Cyberbullying and the Law
- Editing Emotions
- Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising
- Gender Stereotypes and Body Image - Lesson
- Images of Learning
- Impact! How to Make a Difference When You Witness Bullying Online
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 1: Messages About Drinking
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 2: Young Drinkers
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 3: Understanding Brands
- Media Kids
- Mirror Image
- Mixed Signals: Verifying Online Information
- Online Marketing to Kids: Protecting Your Privacy
- Prejudice and Body Image
- PushBack: Engaging in Online Activism
- Selling Tobacco
- Stereotyping and Bias
- Television Broadcast Ratings
- The Anatomy of Cool
- The Girl in the Mirror
- Understanding Cyberbullying : Virtual vs. Physical Worlds
- Video Games
- Violence in Sports
- Writing a Newspaper Article