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Alberta Outcome Chart: English Language Arts - Grade 8
This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Alberta, Grade 8 English Language Arts curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the Media Awareness Network site. It is expected that students will: | listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to explore thoughts, ideas, feelings, and experiences | | Discover and Explore - review, reread and reflect on oral, print and other media texts to explore, confirm or revise understanding
- discuss and respond to ways that forms of oral, print and other media texts enhance or constrain the development and communication of ideas, information and experiences
- pursue personal interest in specific genres by particular writers, artists, storytellers and filmmakers
| Lessons Selling Obesity
Dove’s Campaign for Real Beauty
Killer Games
Cop Shows
Images of Learning: Elementary
Comic Book Characters
Video Games
Thinking Like a Tobacco Company: Grades 7-9
Smoke Screen: Tobacco in the Movies
The Target is You!: Alcohol Advertising Quiz
The True Story
Freedom to Smoke
Selling Tobacco
The Price of Happiness: On Advertising, Image, and Self Esteem
Bias | | listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to comprehend and respond personally and critically to oral, print, and other media texts | | Respond to Texts - experience oral, print and other media texts from a variety of cultural traditions and genres
- expect that there is more than one interpretation for oral, print and other media texts, and discuss other points of view
- make connections between biographical information about authors, illustrators, storytellers and filmmakers and their texts
- interpret the choices and motives of characters portrayed in oral, print and other media texts, and examine how they relate to self and others
- compare two similar oral, print or other media texts by considering the characters, plot, conflicts and main ideas
- discuss how techniques, such as word choice, balance, camera angles, line and framing, communicate meaning and enhance effects in oral, print and other media texts
Understand Forms and Techniques - discuss how the choice of form or genre of oral, print and other media texts is appropriate to purpose and audience
- summarize the content of media texts, and discuss the choices made in planning and producing them
- identify creative uses of language and visuals in popular culture, such as commercials, rock videos and magazines; explain how imagery and figurative language, such as hyperbole, create tone and mood
Create Original Text - create oral, print and other media texts related to issues encountered in texts and in own life
- retell oral, print and other media texts from different points of view create oral, print and other media texts with both main and minor characters
- choose forms or genres of oral, print or other media texts for the particular effects they will have on audiences and purposes
| Lessons Popular Music and Music Videos
Images of Learning: Elementary
TV Dads: Immature and Irresponsible?
Cop Shows
Viewing a Crime Drama Marketing to Teens: Introduction
Marketing to Teens: Marketing Tactics
Marketing to Teens: Talking Back
Marketing to Teens: Parody Ads
Marketing to Teens: Gender Roles in Advertising
Marketing to Teens: Gotta Have It! Designer & Brand Names The Broadcast Project
Camera Shots
Selling Obesity
The Way We Look
You Be the Editor
Bias in the News
Allies and Aliens: Interactive Module on Online Hate
Images of Learning: Elementary
Writing a Newspaper Article
Video Production of a Newscast
Freedom to Smoke
Tobacco Labels
Kids, Alcohol and Advertising: Messages About Drinking
Kids, Alcohol and Advertising: Young Drinkers
Kids, Alcohol and Advertising: Understanding Brands
Kids, Alcohol and Advertising: Interpreting Media Messages
Who’s On First: Alcohol Advertising and Sports
Alcohol Myths
Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising
Create a Youth Consumer Magazine
ICYouSee: A Lesson in Critical Thinking
Tale of Two Cities
News Journalism Across the Media: Introduction
Definitions and Comments about the News
The Newspaper Front Page
Radio News
News Journalism Across the Media: Summative Activities Teachable Moments
Photographic Truth in the Digital Era
Pop Music Reaches Way Down
Bad Ads Essay Writing Contest
A Fish Out of Water
Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource) Passport to the Internet: Student tutorial for Internet literacy (Grades 4-8) | | listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to manage ideas and information | | Select and Focus - develop and use criteria for evaluating the usefulness, currency and reliability of information for a particular research project
| Lessons Reality Check! Evaluating Online Information
Deconstructing Web Pages
ICYouSee: A Lesson in Critical Thinking Student Handouts/Activities
Research Relay
Fact Versus Opinion
5 W's of Cyberspace Backgrounders
Evaluating Internet Research Sources
Evaluating Internet-Based Information:A Goals-Based Approach
How to Search the Internet Effectively
Quick Tips for Authenticating Online Information Teachable Moments
Tale of Two Cities
Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource) Passport to the Internet: Student tutorial for Internet literacy (Grades 4-8) | | listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to respect, support and collaborate with others | | Respect Others and Strengthen Community - compare own with others' understanding of people, cultural traditions and values portrayed in oral, print and other media texts
- clarify and broaden perspectives and opinions, by examining the ideas of others
- compare ways in which oral, print and other media texts reflect specific elements of cultures or periods in history
| Lessons Bias
Bias in the News
The Price of Happiness: On Advertising, Image, and Self Esteem Teachable Moments
Deconstructing the Titanic |
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