Speaking and Listening

Students will be expected to interact with sensitivity and respect, considering the situation, audience, and purpose.

• demonstrate an awareness of the power of spoken language to influence and manipulate, and to reveal ideas, values, and attitudes

Lessons

Alcohol Myths

Alcohol on the Web

Teachable Moments

Th Helping Students Mediate Communications of News of War

Dove’s Campaign for Real Beauty

Smoke Screen: Tobacco in the Movies

Reading and Viewing

Students will be expected to respond personally to a wide range of texts.

• respond to some of the material they read or view by questioning, connecting, evaluating, and extending
• move beyond initial understanding to more thoughtful interpretations
• express and support points of view about texts and about issues, themes, and situations within texts, citing appropriate evidence

Alcohol Myths

Alcohol on the Web

Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource)

MyWorld: A digital literacy tutorial for secondary students

• independently access and select specific information to meet personal and learning needs
  
• use the electronic network
  
• develop approaches and strategies to conduct their research

Lessons

Deconstructing Web Pages

ICYou See: A Lesson in Critical Thinking

Thinking About Hate

Student Handouts/Activities

Research Relay

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)

MyWorld: A digital literacy tutorial for secondary students

Students will be expected to respond critically to a range of texts, applying their knowledge of language, form and genre.

• critically evaluate information presented in print and media texts
  • assess relevance and reliability of available information to answer their questions
    
• demonstrate that print and media texts are constructed for particular purposes and particular audiences
  • describe how specific text and genre characteristics contribute to meaning and effect
    
• respond critically to texts of increasing complexity
  • analyse and evaluate a text in terms of its form, structure, and content
  • recognize how their own ideas and perceptions are framed by what they read and view
  • demonstrate an awareness that personal values and points of view influence both the creation of text and the reader’s/viewer’s interpretation and response
  • explore and reflect on culture and reality as portrayed in media texts
  • identify the values inherent in a text

Lessons

Alcohol Myths

Alcohol on the Web

Bias

Comparing Crime Dramas

Cinema Cops

Crime in the News

Crime Perceptions Quiz

Creating a Marketing Frenzy

Create a Youth Consumer Magazine

Deconstructing Web Pages

Defining Pop Culture

Exposing Gender Stereotypes

Learning Gender Stereotypes

The Impact of Gender Role Stereotypes

Gender and Tobacco

Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising

ICYou See: A Lesson in Critical Thinking

Images of Learning: Elementary
Individuality vs. Conformity

Kellogg Special K Ads

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

Popular Music and Music Videos

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

Online Marketing to Kids: Protecting Your Privacy

Online Marketing to Kids: Strategies and Techniques

Perceptions of Youth and Crime

Perceptions of Race and Crime

Protecting Your Privacy on the Internet

Scientific Detectives

Scripting a Crime Drama

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

Resource Racket: A Global Perspective on Resources and Consumption

The True Story

The White Screen: Absent Voices in the Media

Thinking Like a Citizen

Tobacco Labels

Tobacco Advertising in Canada

Video Production of a Newscast

Video Games

Viewing a Crime Drama

Violence in Sports

Writing a Newspaper Article

You Be the Editor

Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource)

MyWorld: A digital literacy tutorial for secondary students

Writing and Other Ways of Representing

Students will be expected to use writing and other forms of representation to explore, clarify, and reflect on their thoughts, feelings, experiences, and learnings; and to use their imaginations.

• use a range of strategies in writing and other ways of representing
• to extend ideas and experiences
• explore and reflect on their feelings, values, and attitudes
• consider others’ perspectives
• reflect on problems and responses to problems
• make informed choices of language to create a range of interesting effects in imaginative writing and other ways of representing

Students will be expected to create texts collaboratively and independently, using a variety of forms for a range of audiences and purposes.

• demonstrate facility in using a variety of forms of writing to create texts for specific purposes and audiences, and represent their ideas in other forms (including visual arts, music, drama) to achieve their purposes
• demonstrate an awareness of the effect of context on writing and other forms of representing
  • make appropriate choices of form, style, and content for specific audiences and purposes
• analyse and assess responses to their writing and media productions

Lessons

Comparing Crime Dramas

Cinema Cops

Crime in the News

Creating a Marketing Frenzy

Create a Youth Consumer Magazine

Deconstructing Web Pages

Killer Games

Marketing to Teens: Talking Back

Marketing to Teens: Parody Ads

Marketing to Teens: Gender Roles in Advertising

Media Literacy for Development & Children's Rights

News Journalism Across the Media: Summative Activities

Online Marketing to Kids: Protecting Your Privacy

Online Marketing to Kids: Strategies and Techniques

Scientific Detectives

Scripting a Crime Drama

The Broadcast Project

The Privacy Dilemma

The True Story

The White Screen: Absent Voices in the Media

Video Production of a Newscast

Video Games

Viewing a Crime Drama

Violence in Sports

Writing a Newspaper Article

You Be the Editor

Teachable Moments

The "BadAd" Essay Writing Contest

Buy Nothing Day

Dove’s Campaign for Real Beauty

Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource)

MyWorld: A digital literacy tutorial for secondary students