Speaking and Listening
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: generate a defence while engaging in formal conversation
SCO 3: critically evaluate their own and others’ oral text
MediaSmarts Resources
- Dealing with Digital Stress
- Diversity and Media Ownership
- Exposing Gender Stereotypes
- First, Do No Harm: Being an Active Witness to Cyberbullying
- Free Speech and the Internet
- Gambling in the Media
- Kellogg Special K Ads
- Online Gambling and Youth
- Privacy in the Information Age
- The Impact of Gender Stereotypes
- Unpacking Privilege
- Who’s Telling My Story?
Reading and Viewing
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 wide variety of complex texts (fiction, non-fiction, drama, poetry/lyrics, visual/ multimedia, and multi -genre study)
SCO 5: evaluate the effectiveness of literary devices within literature, media, and various forms of representing
SCO 6: evaluate how ideologies are portrayed in a variety of texts
SCO 7: integrate properly cited information from a wide variety of sophisticated and reliable sources
MediaSmarts Resources
- Alcohol on the Web
- Authentication Beyond the Classroom
- Beyond Media Messages: Media Portrayal of Global Development
- Bias and Crime in Media
- Bias in News Sources
- Celebrities and World Issues
- Crime in the News
- Deconstructing Web Pages
- Don’t Drink and Drive: Assessing the Effectiveness of Anti-Drinking Campaigns
- Exposing Gender Stereotypes
- Gender and Tobacco
- Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising
- Hate 2.0
- Hate or Debate
- Hoax? Scholarly Research? Personal Opinion? You Decide!
- I heard it ‘round the Internet: Sexual health education and authenticating online information
- Kellogg Special K Ads
- Learning Gender Stereotypes
- Marketing to Teens: Alternate Ads
- Marketing to Teens: Gotta Have It! Designer & Brand Names
- Miscast and Seldom Seen
- Online Propaganda and the Proliferation of Hate
- Perceptions of Youth and Crime
- Political Cartoons
- Relationships and Sexuality in the Media
- Remixing Media
- Scapegoating and Othering
- Selling Obesity
- Selling Tobacco
- Sex in Advertising
- Sports Personalities in Magazine Advertising
- Taming the Wild Wiki
- The Front Page
- The Impact of Gender Stereotypes
- Thinking about Hate
- Thinking Like a Tobacco Company
- Transgender Representation in TV and Movies
- Video Games
- Watching the Elections
- Who’s Telling My Story?
Writing and Other Ways of Representing
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 complex texts for a variety of audiences and purposes (expressive, persuasive, persuasive research, visual/ multimedia, and creative multi -genre collection)
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
- Alcohol Myths
- Alcohol on the Web
- Bias and Crime in Media
- Bias in News Sources
- Buy Nothing Day
- Celebrities and World Issues
- Challenging Hate Online
- Cyberbullying and Civic Participation
- Dealing with Digital Stress
- Digital Outreach for Civic Engagement
- Digital Storytelling for Civic Engagement
- Don’t Drink and Drive: Assessing the Effectiveness of Anti-Drinking Campaigns
- First Person
- First, Do No Harm: Being an Active Witness to Cyberbullying
- Images of Learning
- Making Media for Democratic Citizenship
- Marketing to Teens: Gender Roles in Advertising
- Marketing to Teens: Marketing Tactics
- Marketing to Teens: Talking Back
- Miscast and Seldom Seen
- Online Relationships: Respect and Consent
- Perceptions of Youth and Crime
- Privacy and Internet Life: Lesson Plan for Intermediate Classrooms
- Put Your Best Face Forward
- Relationships and Sexuality in the Media
- Remixing Media
- Secure Comics
- Selling Obesity
- Selling Tobacco
- Shaking the Movers: Youth Rights and Media
- Suffragettes and Iron Ladies
- Taming the Wild Wiki
- Television Broadcast Ratings
- That’s Not Cool
- The Blockbuster Movie
- The Citizen Reporter
- The Girl in the Mirror
- The Pornography Debate: Controversy in Advertising
- The Price of Happiness
- The Privacy Dilemma: Lesson Plan for Senior Classrooms
- Thinking Like a Tobacco Company
- Understanding Cyberbullying : Virtual vs. Physical Worlds
- Video Games
- Watching the Elections
- Who’s Telling My Story?
- Your Online Resume