Citizenship 9

Engaged Citizenship

Overall Expectations:

Learners will construct a collaboratively-designed service learning project which addresses a need in the school or larger community.

Specific Expectations:

  • Evaluate the merit of a collaboratively-selected need ​(CZ/CT)
  • Plan a service learning project to achieve the goal ​(CZ/COM/CI/CT/TF)
  • Evaluate the development of citizenship skills in relation to the service learning project(CZ/COM/CT)

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Who Am I as a Citizen?

Overall Expectations:

Learners will evaluate evolving concepts and attributes of citizenship as members of different kinds of communities

Specific Expectations:

  • Compare rights and responsibilities as current and future citizens ​(CZ/CT)
  • Investigate how worldview impacts understanding of citizenship ​(CZ/CT)
  • Evaluate personal strengths and skills and how these contribute to communities ​(CZ/PCD)
  • Predict how a citizen’s role may change over time ​(CZ/PCD/CT)

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Digital Citizenship

Overall Expectations:

Learners will evaluate how perceptions of current issues are influenced by various media, and how this shapes actions, choices, and reactions.

Specific Expectations:

  • Evaluate how various groups are represented or omitted in media and the influence this has on people’s perspectives (CZ/COM/CT/TF)
  • Analyse how social and mass media impact the awareness of certain issues (CZ/COM/CT/TF)
  • Investigate how citizens’ and governments’ choices can be affected by different media (CZ/COM/CT/TF)

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Overall Expectations:

Learners will evaluate risks, rights, and responsibilities of digital citizens.

Specific Expectations:

  • Evaluate the opportunities and risks of being digitally engaged or connected (COM/PCD/CT/TF)
  • Investigate how a digital footprint influences others’ perceptions (CZ/PCD/TF)
  • Investigate the role of anonymity in both the production and consumption of media (COM/PCD/CT/TF)

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Governance

Overall Expectations:

Learners will evaluate strategies to meaningfully engage as citizens within a democratic process

Specific Expectations:

  • Evaluate ways to work within and outside of government structures to affect change(CZ/COM/PCD/CI/CT)
  • Investigate ways that citizens can advocate for change, awareness, or action(CZ/COM/PCD/CI/CT/TF)
  • Investigate the impact of resistance and protest as political and social actions (CZ/COM/CT)
  • Analyse how unequal access to democracy makes some groups’ voices more powerful than others (CZ/COM/CT)

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Global Citizenship

Overall Expectations:

Learners will evaluate the consequences of action and inaction as twenty-first century global citizens.

Specific Expectations:

  • Investigate a global issue from differing perspectives ​(CZ/COM/CT)
  • Evaluate the intended and unintended consequences of an action or inaction in regard to a global issue ​(CZ/COM/CT)

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