Speaking and Listening |
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Overall Expectations GCO 1: Speak and listen to explore, extend, clarify, and reflect on their thoughts, ideas, feelings, and experiences. GCO 2: Communicate information and ideas effectively and clearly, and to respond personally and critically. GCO 3: Interact with sensitivity and respect, considering the situation, audience, and purpose. Specific Expectations SCO 1: justify understanding of an idea, issue, or text through effective communication SCO 2: produce an oral presentation advocating for an idea or cause SCO 3: construct an expository oral text that explains an idea or process |
MediaSmarts Resources First, Do No Harm: Being an Active Witness to Cyberbullying |
Reading and Viewing |
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Overall Expectations GCO 4: Select, read, and view with understanding a range of literature, information, media, and visual texts. GCO 5: Interpret, select, and combine information using a variety of strategies, resources, and technologies. GCO 6: Respond personally to a range of texts. GCO 7: Respond critically to a range of texts, applying their understanding of language, form, and genre. Specific Expectations SCO 4: evaluate purpose, structure, and characteristics of a variety of texts (fiction, non-fiction, drama, poetry/lyrics, and visual/multi media) SCO 5: examine the impact of literary devices in literature, media, and various forms of representing (imagery, simile, metaphor, alliteration, personification, flashback, and foreshadowing) SCO 6: evaluate how identity and culture are portrayed in a variety of texts SCO 7: integrate properly cited information from a variety of reliable sources |
MediaSmarts Resources Authentication Beyond the Classroom Beyond Media Messages: Media Portrayal of Global Development Don’t Drink and Drive: Assessing the Effectiveness of Anti-Drinking Campaigns Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising Hoax? Scholarly Research? Personal Opinion? You Decide! I heard it ‘round the Internet: Sexual health education and authenticating online information ICYouSee: A Lesson in Critical Thinking Marketing to Teens: Alternate Ads Marketing to Teens: Gotta Have It! Designer & Brand Names News Journalism Across the Media: Summative Activities Online Propaganda and the Proliferation of Hate Perceptions of Youth and Crime Relationships and Sexuality in the Media Sports Personalities in Magazine Advertising The Impact of Gender Stereotypes Thinking Like a Tobacco Company |
Writing and Other Ways of Representing |
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Overall Expectations GCO 8: Use writing and other ways of representing to explore, clarify, and reflect on their thoughts, feelings, experiences, and learning; and to use their imagination. GCO 9: Create texts collaboratively and independently, using a variety of forms for a range of audiences and purpose. GCO 10: Use a range of strategies to develop effective writing and other ways of representing, and to enhance their clarity, precision, and effectiveness. Specific Expectations SCO 8: construct a range of texts for a variety of audiences and purposes (narrative, expository, persuasive, poetry/lyrics, visual/multimedia, and research) SCO 9: provide specific critical feedback on self, peer, and/or modelled text using success criteria SCO 10: enhance personal text based on self, peer, and/or teacher critical feedback |
MediaSmarts Resources Cyberbullying and Civic Participation Digital Outreach for Civic Engagement Digital Storytelling for Civic Engagement Don’t Drink and Drive: Assessing the Effectiveness of Anti-Drinking Campaigns First, Do No Harm: Being an Active Witness to Cyberbullying Making Media for Democratic Citizenship Marketing to Teens: Gender Roles in Advertising Marketing to Teens: Marketing Tactics Marketing to Teens: Talking Back Movie Heroes and the Heroic Journey News Journalism Across the Media: Summative Activities Online Relationships: Respect and Consent Perceptions of Youth and Crime Privacy and Internet Life: Lesson Plan for Intermediate Classrooms Relationships and Sexuality in the Media Shaking the Movers: Youth Rights and Media The Privacy Dilemma: Lesson Plan for Senior Classrooms Thinking Like a Tobacco Company Understanding Cyberbullying : Virtual vs. Physical Worlds |
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