listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to explore thoughts, ideas, feelings, and experiences

Discover and Explore

• Explore a variety of texts and genres by particular writers, artists, storytellers, and filmmakers outside areas of personal preferences

Clarify and Extend

• Ask discriminating questions and experiment to interpret, evaluate, and reflect on ideas and information; construct hypotheses to explain ambiguities observable in the world
  
  

Lessons

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

• Use textual cues [such as the structures of prose, poetry, plays, and media texts...], prominent organizational patterns [such as logic, comparison and contrast, problem and solution...] within texts, and stylistic techniques [such as flashbacks, foreshadowing...] to confirm meaning and interpret texts

Respond to Texts

• Experience texts from a variety of genres [such as documentaries, human interest stories, forums, musicals, science fiction...] and cultural traditions; revise interpretations following discussion and review
• Compare the portrayals of people, events, and perspectives of Canadian and international writers, artists, storytellers, and filmmakers
• Examine how word choice in oral, literary, and media texts alters and enhances mood or meaning and affects audience

Understand Forms and Techniques

• Describe various genres of oral, literary, and media texts and identify their strengths and limitations
• Describe how plot, character, and setting contribute to an overall theme, and recognize the effectiveness of oral, verbal, and visual techniques
• Analyse ways in which creative uses of language influence thought, emotion, and meaning; identify how symbols are used to represent abstract ideas

Create Original Text [such as video scripts, debates, editorials, audio tapes with voice and music, speeches, readers' theatre, formal essays, letters, advertisements...] to

• communicate and demonstrate understanding of forms and meanings

Lessons

Bias

Camera Shots

Cinema Cops

Comparing Crime Dramas

Crime in the News

Crime Perceptions Quiz

Defining Pop Culture

Hoax? Scholarly Research? Personal Opinion? You Decide!

Analyzing the News: Introduction

Hype!

Images of Learning: Secondary

Individuality vs. Conformity

Kellogg Special K Ads

Marketing to Teens: Introduction

Marketing to Teens: Marketing Tactics

Marketing to Teens: Talking Back

Marketing to Teens: Parody Ads

Marketing to Teens: Alternate Ads

Marketing to Teens: Gender Roles in Advertising

Marketing to Teens: Gotta Have It! Designer & Brand Names

That's Me You're Talking About

The Front Page
Bias in the News

Fact Versus Opinion

Diversity Audit

Alcohol on the Web

Don’t Drink and Drive: Assessing the Effectiveness of Anti-Drinking Campaigns

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

Perceptions of Youth and Crime

Popular Music and Music Videos

Political Cartoons

The Price of Happiness: On Advertising, Image, and Self Esteem

The Privacy Dilemma

Public Images

Scripting a Crime Drama

Teaching About Napster

Television Broadcast Ratings

The Function of Music

The Resource Racket: A Global Perspective on Resources and Consumption

The White Screen: Absent Voices in the Media

Thinking About Hate

Too White: Minority Representation in the Media

Viewing a Crime Drama

Violence on Film: The Ratings Game

Who Knows? Your Privacy in the Information Age

You Be the Editor

listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to manage ideas and information

Select and Process

• Identify a range of diverse and specialized information sources [such as magazines, documentaries, hobby or sports materials, multimedia resources?] to satisfy inquiry or research needs
• Evaluate the reliability and credibility of a variety of information sources and perspectives for a particular inquiry or research plan
• Identify and analyze a variety of factors [such as distinctions between fact, emotion, and opinion; distinctions between content and its presentation - colour, angle, movement, framing, and sequencing; the speaker?s or author?s purpose and intention?] that affect meaning; use effective listening, reading and viewing techniques
  
  

Lessons

Deconstructing Web Pages

ICYouSee: A Lesson in Critical Thinking

Thinking About Hate

Hoax? Scholarly Research? Personal Opinion? You Decide!

Selling Tobacco

Tobacco Advertising in Canada

Perceptions of Youth and Crime

Perceptions of Race and Crime

Bias in the News

Fact Versus Opinion

Analyzing the News: Introduction

Alcohol on the Web

Don’t Drink and Drive: Assessing the Effectiveness of Anti-Drinking Campaigns

The Privacy Dilemma

Teachable Moments

Photographic Truth in the Digital Era

Bad Ads Essay Writing Contest

A Tale of Two Cities

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

listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to enhance the clarity and artistry of communication

Generate and Focus

• Experiment with more than one organizational structure for a chosen form of own oral, written, and visual texts

Lessons

Create a Youth Consumer Magazine

Magazine Production

Scripting a Crime Drama

Television Broadcast Ratings

Images of Learning: Secondary

Marketing to Teens: Marketing Tactics

Marketing to Teens: Talking Back

Marketing to Teens: Parody Ads

Marketing to Teens: Gotta Have It! Designer & Brand Names

Popular Music and Music Videos

Radio News

News Journalism Across the Media: Summative Activities

Video Production of a Newscast

listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to celebrate and build community

Develop and Celebrate Community

• Recognize and act upon the importance of respecting evidence, truth, and the views of others when discussing, describing, or recording experiences
• Recognize and discuss ways in which oral, literary, and media texts reflect cultural and attitudinal influences
• Analyze the role of language and oral, literary, and media texts in revealing and explaining the human condition

Lessons

Bias

Bias in the News

The Price of Happiness: On Advertising, Image, and Self Esteem

Crime Perceptions Quiz

Perceptions of Youth and Crime

Perceptions of Race and Crime

The Resource Racket: A Global Perspective on Resources and Consumption

Exposing Gender Stereotypes

Learning Gender Stereotypes

The Impact of Gender Role Stereotypes

Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising

Killer Games

Video Games

Public Images

Advertising and Male Violence

Activity

Portrayal of Teenage Girls in Magazines

Dove’s Campaign for Real Beauty

Teachable Moments

Deconstructing the Titanic