Outcome Chart - Yukon - English Language Arts 9
Big Ideas
- Stories and other texts can be shared through pictures and words.
- Everyone has a unique story to share.
- Curiosity and wonder lead us to new discoveries about ourselves and the world around us.
- Through listening and speaking, we connect with others and share our world.
- Questioning what we hear, read, and view contributes to our ability to be educated and engaged citizens.
Overall Expectations: Comprehending and Connect (reading, listening, viewing)
- Using oral, written, visual, and digital texts, students are expected individually and collaboratively to be able to:
Specific Expectations:
- Access information and ideas for diverse purposes and from a variety of sources and evaluate their relevance, accuracy, and reliability
- Synthesize ideas from a variety of sources to build understanding
- Recognize and appreciate how different features, forms, and genres of texts reflect different purposes, audiences, and messages
- Think critically, creatively, and reflectively to explore ideas within, between, and beyond texts
- Recognize and identify the role of personal, social, and cultural contexts, values, and perspectives in texts
- Recognize how language constructs personal, social, and cultural identity
- Construct meaningful personal connections between self, text, and world
- Respond to text in personal, creative, and critical ways
- Recognize an increasing range of text structures and how they contribute to meaning
Specific Expectations: Create and Communicate (writing, speaking, presenting)
- Create and communicate (writing, speaking, representing)
- Exchange ideas and viewpoints to build shared understanding and extend thinking
- Use writing and design processes to plan, develop, and create engaging and meaningful literary and informational texts for a variety of purposes and audiences
- Assess and refine texts to improve their clarity, effectiveness, and impact according to purpose, audience, and message
- Transform ideas and information to create original texts
- Express an opinion and support it with credible evidence
MediaSmarts Resources
- Alcohol Myths
- Alcohol on the Web
- Bias and Crime in Media
- Bias in News Sources
- Break the Fake: Verifying Information Online
- Buy Nothing Day
- Celebrities and World Issues
- Digital Outreach for Civic Engagement
- Digital Skills for Democracy: Assessing online information to make civic choices
- Digital Storytelling for Civic Engagement
- Editing Emotions
- Exposing Gender Stereotypes
- Finding and Authenticating Online Information on Global Development Issues
- First, Do No Harm: Being an Active Witness to Cyberbullying
- Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising
- Hate 2.0
- Hate or Debate
- I heard it 'round the Internet: Sexual health education and authenticating online information
- Images of Learning
- Impact! How to Make a Difference When You Witness Bullying Online
- Introduction to Online Civic Engagement
- Body Positive Ads
- Marketing to Teens: Gender Roles in Advertising
- Marketing to Teens: Marketing Tactics
- Marketing to Teens: Parody Ads
- Marketing to Teens: Talking Back
- Miscast and Seldom Seen
- Mixed Signals: Verifying Online Information
- My Voice is Louder Than Hate: The Impact of Hate
- My Voice is Louder Than Hate: Pushing Back Against Hate
- Online Marketing to Kids: Protecting Your Privacy
- Online Marketing to Kids: Strategies and Techniques
- Privacy Rights of Children and Teens
- PushBack: Engaging in Online Activism
- Reality Check: Authentication 101
- Reality Check: Authentication and Citizenship
- Reality Check: Getting the Goods on Science and Health
- Reality Check: News You Can Use
- Reality Check: We Are All Broadcasters
- Secure Comics
- Selling Tobacco
- Shaking the Movers: Youth Rights and Media
- Sports Personalities in Magazine Advertising
- Taming the Wild Wiki
- Television Broadcast Ratings
- The Citizen Reporter
- The Girl in the Mirror
- The Impact of Gender Stereotypes
- The Price of Happiness
- There's No Excuse: Confronting Moral Disengagement in Sexting
- Tobacco Labels
- Transgender Representation in TV and Movies
- Video Games
- Video Production of a Newscast
- Watching the Elections
- Who Knows? Your Privacy in the Information Age
- Who's Telling My Story?
- Writing a Newspaper Article