Outcome Chart – British Columbia – French Immersion Language Arts (FILA) 12 – Media and Digital Communication

Big Ideas

  • The life experience, culture, and current context of the audience influence the interpretation of a text.
  • The media plays a key role in social, civic, and cultural life, influencing the principles and values of a society.
  • Digital citizenship implies recognizing the impact that new media have on ourselves, others, and the world.

Curricular Competencies

Explore and Reflect

  • Interpret a text to identify implicit and explicit messages
  • Compare their personal values and points of view with those expressed in a text in order to call into question their own opinions
  • Examine a problem statement in order to understand the issues at hand
  • Identify the type and intention of a text
  • Evaluate the relevance, accuracy, and reliability of texts in order to take a position or reach a decision
  • Apply appropriate strategies in a variety of contexts in order to understand a text
  • Analyze and put into practice the principles of digital citizenship

Create and Communicate

  • Synthesize ideas and information obtained from a text
  • Support their messages using techniques from diverse sources
  • Select writing processes and design methods to plan, develop, and create interactions and texts for a variety of purposes and audiences

Content

Students are expected to be able to know and understand the following in various contexts:

  • Communication strategies:
    • Citation techniques
  • Literary elements:
    • Multimedia
  • Text organization:
    • Forms and structure of a news article
    • Structure of a blog
    • Structure of texts
  • Language elements
    • Digital language
  • Editing strategies
  • Elements to enrich a text
    • Clarity

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