Exploring Canadian Identity
Overall Expectations
9.1.1 investigate how artistic and literary expression reflects the following aspects of Canadian identity: landscape, climate, history, people-citizenship, and related challenges and opportunities
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Lessons
- Celebrities and World Issues
- Diversity and Media Ownership
- Hate or Debate
- Miscast and Seldom Seen
- The Girl in the Mirror
- Watching the Elections
- Who’s Telling My Story?
Decades of Change
Overall Expectations
9.3.7 Analyze how globalization has affected Canada and Canadians since 1980
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Lessons
- Beyond Media Messages: Media Portrayal of Global Development
- Celebrities and World Issues
- Diversity and Media Ownership
- Online Marketing to Kids: Protecting Your Privacy
- What Students Need to Know about Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy
- Who Knows? Your Privacy in the Information Age
- Who’s Telling My Story?
Citizenship
Overall Expectations
9.4.1 take age-appropriate actions that demonstrate the rights and responsibilities of citizenship (local, national and global)
Specific Expectations
- examine the concept of citizenship
- define rights and responsibilities
- examine the criteria for becoming a Canadian citizen
- examine the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights
- demonstrate an understanding of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
- develop a definition of responsible citizenship
- plan and carry out age-appropriate actions that demonstrate responsible citizenship
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Lessons
- Challenging Hate Online
- Cyberbullying and the Law
- Free Speech and the Internet
- Hate 2.0
- Miscast and Seldom Seen
- Online Propaganda and the Proliferation of Hate
- Promoting Ethical Behaviour Online: Our Values and Ethics
- Promoting Ethical Behaviour Online: Our Values and Ethics
- Shaking the Movers: Youth Rights and Media
- Television Broadcast Ratings
- The Girl in the Mirror
- Thinking Like a Tobacco Company
- Tobacco Labels
- Truth or Money
- Watching the Elections
Educational Game
Overall Expectations
9.4.2 demonstrate an understanding of how citizenship has evolved over time
Specific Expectations
- examine factors in ancient, medieval and early modern times that influenced our modern democratic concept of citizenship
- describe how the history of Canada has shaped our concept of citizenship
- examine the role and responsibility of the citizen in supporting the rule of law
- identify current global events and the impact they may have on views of citizenship
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