Level: Grades 7 to 12
Lesson Length: This lesson takes place over two weeks, with roughly three hours class time mandatory and an additional two to six hours for the optional media production activity.
Subject Area: Digital Health, internet & mobile, media production
Lesson Link:
Cross-curricular Competencies
- To use information
- To solve problems
- To exercise critical judgement
- To use creativity
- To adopt effective work methods
- To use information and communication technologies (ICT)
- To construct his/her identity
- To cooperate with others
- To communicate appropriately
Broad Areas of Learning
This lesson satisfies the following Competencies from the Quebec Education Program:
English Language Arts
Produces texts for personal and social purposes
Extends repertoire of resources for producing texts
- Immerses self in texts to learn how they are constructed
- Investigates the codes and conventions of various genres
- Creates criteria for what makes text(s) effective
- Examines the affordances of different modes and genres to make production decisions
- Uses models of different texts to apply chosen features in own work
- Applies codes and conventions of written and media language
- Compares own style in relation to other writers/producers
- Develops standards for using language responsibly to represent people, events and ideas
Constructs a relationship between writer/producer, text and context
- Understands that all texts are constructed in specific contexts for specific audiences and purposes
- Researches as a writer/producer to become more informed, to create authentic contexts and to characterize an audience
- Assumes various roles in own productions
- Analyzes the elements of the context and shapes the text accordingly
- Examines the differences between producing texts for public and private spaces.
Adapts a process to produce texts in specific contexts
- Participates both individually and collaboratively in different recursive phases of the production process
- Confers regularly with peers and teacher throughout the production process
- Uses feedback strategies to improve own productions and support peers
- Reflects on own development as a writer/producer over time
- Monitors own learning
- Cultivates a variety of media and writerly practices
- Explores a variety of avenues for wider publication
Physical Education and Health
Adopts a healthy, active lifestyle
Develops a plan designed to maintain or change some personal lifestyle habits
- Using appropriate tools, prepares a summary of observable facts about own lifestyle habits
- Chooses two lifestyle habits to maintain or change, if appropriate
- Begins a process
- Identifies own tastes and aptitudes
- Plans a strategy with two realistic objectives and anticipates the consequences
- Uses a variety of resources