This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Ontario, Curriculum for English, Grade 9, with links to supporting resources on the Media Awareness Network site.

Understanding Media Texts
By the end of Grade 9, students will: explain how both simple and complex media texts are created to suit particular purposes and audiences interpret simple and complex media texts, identifying and explaining the overt and implied messages they convey evaluate how effectively information, ideas, issues, and opinions are communicated in both simple and complex media texts and decide whether the texts achieve their intended purpose identify and explain different audience responses to selected media texts identify the perspectives and/or biases evident in both simple and complex media texts and comment on any questions they may raise about beliefs, values, and identity explain how several different production, marketing, and distribution factors influence the media industry	Lessons that meet the Grade 9 expectations Advertising Marketing Tactics   Talking Back Alternative Ads   Parody Ads Gender Roles in Advertising    Selling Obesity Sports Personalities in Magazine Advertising The Price of Happiness: On Advertising, Image, and Self Esteem Gotta Have It! Designer & Brand Names Truth or Money Kellogg Special K Ads Alcohol Alcohol Myths Alcohol on the Web Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising Don't Drink and Drive: Assessing the Effectiveness of Anti-Drinking Campaigns Environment Resource Racket: A Global Perspective on Resources and Consumption  Internet ICYouSee: A Lesson in Critical Thinking   Deconstructing Web Pages    Research Relay Tale of Two Cities Thinking About Hate Media Adjusting the Focus Defining Pop Culture Individuality vs. Conformity   Looking Through the Lenses Whose Lenses? How Mass Media Portray Global Development   The Function of Music   Public Images   Comparing Crime Dramas   Crime in the News   Killer Games   Movies   Violence on Film    Music The Function of Music Popular Music and Music Videos Public Images   News Journalism Across the Media: Definitions and Comments about the News The Newspaper Front Page Radio News   Television News Summative Activities How to Analyze the News Crime in the News You Be the Editor Bias in the News Writing a Newspaper Article Writing a Newspaper Article You Be the Editor   Scripting a Crime Drama   True Story       Introduction Resource Racket: A Global Perspective on Resources and Consumption Privacy What Students Need to Know about Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Online Marketing to Kids: Protecting Your Privacy Who Knows? Your Privacy in the Information Age The Privacy Dilemma Stereotyping Exposing Gender Stereotypes Learning Gender Stereotypes The Impact of Geneder Stereotypes Images of Learning: Secondary MyMedia: Video Podcast Contest for YouthThe White Screen: Absent Voices in the Media Viewing a Crime Drama Television Camera Shots Cinema Cops Crime Perceptions Quiz Viewing a Crime Drama  Scripting a Crime Drama Comparing Crime Dramas   Video Production of a Newscast     Tobacco Thinking Like a Tobacco Company: Grades 7–9   Freedom to Smoke   Gender and Tobacco Tobacco Labels Be a Tobacco AdBuster Video Games Video Games   Killer Games Educational Contest Jo Cool or Jo Fool: Interactive module and quiz on critical thinking for the Internet MyMedia: Video Podcast Contest for Youth Independent Study Unit Reality Check! Evaluating Online Information Teachable Moments Photographic Truth in the Digital Era Pop Music Reaches Way Down The "BadAd" Essay Writing Contest A Fish Out of Water A Gold Medal is Worth its Weight in Endorsements A Tale of Two Cities And Now a Word From Our Sponsor Buy Nothing Day Captive Audience? Christmas Commercialism Dove's Campaign for Real Beauty Earth Day Hurricane Katrina and Celebrities Hurricane Katrina and the "Two-Photo Controversy" Hurricane Katrina and the Internet Smoke Screen TV Turnoff Week What Do Halloween Costumes Say? A Teletubbies Christmas
Understanding Media Forms, Conventions, and Techniques
By the end of Grade 9, students will: identify some general characteristics of several different media forms and explain how they shape content and create meaning identify several different conventions and/or techniques used in familiar media forms and explain how they convey meaning and influence their audience
Creating Media Texts
By the end of Grade 9, students will: describe the topic, purpose, and audience for media texts they plan to create select a media form to suit the topic, purpose, and audience for a media text they plan to create and explain why it is an appropriate choice identify several different conventions and/or techniques appropriate to a media form they plan to use, and explain how these will help them communicate meaning produce media texts for several different purposes and audiences, using appropriate forms, conventions, and techniques
Reflecting on Media Literacy Skills and Strategies
By the end of Grade 9, students will: describe several different strategies they used in interpreting and creating media texts, explain which ones they found most helpful, and identify several specific steps they can take to improve as media interpreters and producers explain how their skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing help them interpret and produce media texts