Prince Edward Island - English Language Arts 521A/B (Grade 11)
Reading and Viewing
GCO 4: Select, read, and view with understanding, a range of literature, information, media, and visual texts.
SCO 4: critically analyse the purpose, structure, and characteristics of a variety of texts (fiction, non-fiction, drama, poetry/lyrics, and visual/multimedia)
MediaSmarts Resources
- #ForYou: The Algorithm Game
- Advertising and Male Violence
- Authentication Beyond the Classroom
- Beyond Media Messages: Media Portrayal of Global Development
- Bias and Crime in Media
- Bias in News Sources
- Body Positive Ads
- Break the Fake: Hoax? Scholarly Research? Personal Opinion? You Decide!
- Camera Shots
- Challenging Hate Online
- Consensus or Conspiracy?
- Crime in the News
- Deconstructing Web Pages
- Digital Skills for Democracy: Assessing online information to make civic choices
- Diversity and Media Ownership
- First Person
- Gambling in the Media
- Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising
- Hate 2.0
- Hate or Debate
- Images of Learning
- Marketing to Teens: Alternate Ads
- Marketing to Teens: Gender Roles in Advertising
- Marketing to Teens: Gotta Have It! Designer & Brand Names
- Marketing to Teens: Marketing Tactics
- Miscast and Seldom Seen
- My Voice is Louder Than Hate: Pushing Back Against Hate
- My Voice is Louder Than Hate: The Impact of Hate
- Online Propaganda and the Proliferation of Hate
- Perceptions of Youth and Crime
- Political Images: Memes and Cartoons
- Popular Music and Music Videos
- Relationships and Sexuality in the Media
- Remixing Media
- Screen Stigma: Looking at Mental Illness in Popular Media
- Screen Stigma: Looking at Mental Illness in the News
- Sex in Advertising
- Suffragettes and Iron Ladies
- The Citizen Reporter
- The Front Page
- The Pornography Debate
- The Price of Happiness
- Thinking about Hate
- Transgender Representation in TV and Movies
- Watching the Elections
- Who's Telling My Story?
GCO 6: Respond personally to a range of texts
SCO 6: Evaluate how gender and socioeconomic status are portrayed in a variety of texts
MediaSmarts Resources
- Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising
- Marketing to Teens: Gender Roles in Advertising
- Sex in Advertising
- Suffragettes and Iron Ladies
- Transgender Representation in TV and Movies
GCO 7: Respond critically to a range of texts, applying their understanding of language, form, and genre.
SCO 7: Integrate properly cited information from a variety of increasingly sophisticated and reliable sources
MediaSmarts Resources
- Authentication Beyond the Classroom
- Break the Fake: Hoax? Scholarly Research? Personal Opinion? You Decide!
- Consensus or Conspiracy?
- Deconstructing Web Pages
- Finding and Authenticating Online Information on Global Development Issues
- Reality Check: Authentication and Citizenship
- Reality Check: News You Can Use
Writing and Other Ways of Representing
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.
SCO 8: Construct a range of increasingly complex texts for a variety of audiences and purposes (expressive, expository, expository research, visual/multimedia, and creative multi-genre collection)
MediaSmarts Resources
- Bias in News Sources
- Camera Shots
- Consensus or Conspiracy?
- First Person
- Gambling in the Media
- Images of Learning
- Making Media for Democratic Citizenship
- Marketing to Teens: Gender Roles in Advertising
- My Voice is Louder Than Hate: Pushing Back Against Hate
- My Voice is Louder Than Hate: The Impact of Hate
- Reality Check: Authentication 101
- Relationships and Sexuality in the Media
- Remixing Media
- Suffragettes and Iron Ladies
- The Citizen Reporter
- The Front Page
- The Pornography Debate
- The Price of Happiness
- Transgender Representation in TV and Movies
- Watching the Elections
- Who's Telling My Story?