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Manitoba Outcome Chart: English Language Arts Grade 8
This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Manitoba, 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 - explore diverse ideas to develop conclusions, opinions, and understanding
- integrate new understanding with previous viewpoints and interpretations
- experiment with memorable language to convey personal perceptions, feelings, experiences, thoughts and ideas in various forms
- pursue personal interest in specific genres by particular writers, artists, storytellers, and filmmakers
Clarify and Extend - discuss the importance of reflecting on prior experiences and knowledge to revise conclusions and understanding
- articulate, represent, and explain personal viewpoints clearly
- structure and restructure ideas and information in personally meaningful ways to clarify and extend understanding
| Lessons Selling Obesity
Cop Shows
Images of Learning: Elementary
Comic Book Characters
Video Games
Alcohol Myths
Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising
Thinking Like a Tobacco Company: Grades 7-9
The True Story
Freedom to Smoke
Selling Tobacco
The Price of Happiness: On Advertising, Image, and Self Esteem
Bias
Killer Games
Cinema Cops
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
Privacy and Internet Life
| | listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to comprehend and respond personally and critically to oral, print, and other media texts | | Use Strategies and Cues - make connections between previous experiences, prior knowledge and a variety of texts, and apply them to new contexts
- use textual cues [such as the structures and elements of specific genres...] to make sense of familiar and unfamiliar texts and remember ideas
Respond to Texts - experience texts from a variety of genres [such as magazine articles, diaries, drama, advertisements...] and cultural traditions; compare own interests in a variety of texts to those of others
- discuss how similar ideas, people, experiences, and traditions are conveyed in a variety of oral, print, and other media texts
- identify and describe techniques used to create mood in oral, print, and other media texts
Understand Forms and Techniques - demonstrate appreciation for the appropriate use of various genres of oral, print, and other media texts according to content, audience, and purpose
- identify a variety of techniques [such as characterization, word choice, framing, angle...] used to create particular effects or to portray various cultures in oral, print, and other media texts
- identify creative uses of language in popular culture [such as commercials, advertisements, rock videos...]; explain how imagery and figures of speech create tone and mood in texts
Create Original Text [such as paintings and drawings, dramatizations, oral stories...] to - communicate and demonstrate understanding of forms and meanings
| Lessons A Day in the Life
Cop Shows
Cinema Cops
Crime in the News
Creating a Marketing Frenzy
Do You Believe This Camel?
Female Action Heroes
Who’s On First: Alcohol Advertising and Sports
Alcohol Myths
Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising
Freedom to Smoke
Exposing Gender Stereotypes
Learning Gender Stereotypes
The Impact of Gender Role Stereotypes
Gender and Tobacco
Smoke Screen: Tobacco in the Movies
Images of Learning: Elementary
Killer Games
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
Radio News
News Journalism Across the Media: Summative Activities
Perceptions of Race and Crime
Perceptions of Youth and Crime
Scientific Detectives
Selling Obesity
Selling Tobacco
Sports Personalities in Magazine Advertising
Television Broadcast Ratings
The Broadcast Project
The Price of Happiness: On Advertising, Image, and Self Esteem
The True Story
Thinking Like a Citizen
Tobacco Labels
Tobacco Advertising in Canada
Video Production of a Newscast
Video Games
Violence in Sports
Teachable Moments Dove’s Campaign for Real Beauty
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 Process - distinguish between fact and opinion when inquiring or researching using a variety of information sources [such as artifacts, debates, forums, biographies, autobiographies...]
- develop and use criteria for evaluating information sources for a particular inquiry or research plan
- construct meaning from oral, print, and other media texts using direct statements, implied meaning, and inferences; adjust reading and viewing rates according to purpose, topic, density of information, and organizational patterns of texts
| Lessons Deconstructing Web Pages
ICYouSee: A Lesson in Critical Thinking
Student Handouts/Activities
Research Relay
Fact Versus Opinion
5 W's of Cyberspace
Are You Web Aware? Activity Sheets
Blogs
Chat Rooms
E-mail
File-sharing
Instant Messaging
Text Messaging
Web Sites 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 | | listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to enhance the clarity and artistry of communication | | Generate and Focus - compose using specific forms [such as biographies, letters to the editor, newspaper articles, audio-visual presentations...] appropriate for content, audience, and purpose
- identify and use a variety of organizational patterns [such as comparison and contrast, rising action, pyramid structure...] in own oral, written, and visual texts; compose effective introductions and conclusions
| Lessons Cop Shows
Cinema Cops
Creating a Marketing Frenzy
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
Do You Believe This Camel?
Images of Learning: Elementary
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
Privacy and Internet Life
Radio News
News Journalism Across the Media: Summative Activities
Scientific Detectives
Selling Tobacco
The Broadcast Project
The True Story
Thinking Like a Citizen
Tobacco Labels
Tobacco Advertising in Canada
Video Production of a Newscast | | listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to celebrate and build community | | Develop and Celebrate Community - express personal reactions to a variety of experiences and texts and compare them with the reactions of others
- recognize ways in which oral, print, and other media texts capture specific elements of a culture or period in history
- interpret the choices and motives of individuals presented in oral, print, and other media texts and examine how they relate to self and others
| Teaching Units A Day in the Life
Bias
Bias in the News
The Price of Happiness: On Advertising, Image, and Self Esteem
Perceptions of Race and Crime
Perceptions of Youth and Crime
Teachable Moments
Deconstructing the Titanic
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