Prince Edward Island - English Language Arts 8
Reading and Viewing
GCO 4: Select, read, and view with understanding, a range of literature, information, media, and visual texts.
SCO 4: Respond literally, inferentially, and critically to the purpose, structure and characteristics of text, demonstrating increasing knowledge of genre and form (narrative, expository, persuasive, poetry/lyrics, and visual/multimedia).
MediaSmarts Resources
- Avatars and Body Image
- Bias and Crime in Media
- Break the Fake: Verifying Information Online
- Comic Book Characters
- Deconstructing Web Pages
- Do Sharks Love Ice Cream?
- Editing Emotions
- Exposing Gender Stereotypes
- Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising
- Gender Stereotypes and Body Image
- Hate 2.0
- Hate or Debate
- I heard it 'round the Internet: Sexual health education and authenticating online information
- Images of Learning
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 3: Understanding Brands
- Kids, Alcohol and Advertising 4: Interpreting Media Messages
- Looking at Advertising: Brands and Mascots
- Looks Good Enough to Eat
- Marketing to Teens: Alternate Ads
- Marketing to Teens: Gender Roles in Advertising
- Marketing to Teens: Gender Roles in Advertising
- Marketing to Teens: Marketing Tactics
- Marketing to Teens: Talking Back
- Media Kids
- Media literacy key concepts Lesson 3: Audiences negotiate meaning
- Mixed Signals: Verifying Online Information
- Online Marketing to Kids: Strategies and Techniques
- Packaging Tricks - Lesson
- Perceptions of Youth and Crime
- Police in Media
- Prejudice and Body Image
- Put Your Best Face Forward
- Scapegoating and Othering
- Stereotyping and Genre
- Taming the Wild Wiki
- Thinking about Hate
- Tobacco Labels
- Video Game Verbs
- Video Games
- Watching the Elections
GCO 6: Respond personally to a range of texts
SCO 6: Evaluate how identity is portrayed in a variety of texts.
MediaSmarts Resources
- Exposing Gender Stereotypes
- Gender and Tobacco
- Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising
- Gender Stereotypes and Body Image
- Learning Gender Stereotypes
- Marketing to Teens: Gender Roles in Advertising
- Media Stereotypes
- Police in Media
- Scapegoating and Othering
- The Girl in the Mirror
- The Impact of Gender Stereotypes
- Villains, Heroes and Heroines
GCO 7: Respond critically to a range of texts, applying their understanding of language, form, and genre.
SCO 7: Support points of view using credible, properly cited information from research.
MediaSmarts Resources
- Deconstructing Web Pages
- Do Sharks Love Ice Cream?
- I heard it 'round the Internet: Sexual health education and authenticating online information
- Mixed Signals: Verifying Online Information
- Perceptions of Youth and Crime
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 written and visual/multimedia texts, demonstrating increasing knowledge of genre and form (narrative fiction, narrative non-fiction, expository, persuasive, poetry/lyrics, and research).