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Manitoba Outcome Chart: English Language Arts Grade 7 This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Manitoba, Grade 7 English Language Arts curriculum, with links to supporting resources on the Media Awareness Network site.
It is expected that students will:
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listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to explore thoughts, ideas, feelings, and experiences |
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Discover and Explore
- use exploratory language to discuss and record a variety of opinions and conclusions
- explore oral, print and other media texts recommended by peers
Clarify and Extend
- recognize the value of connecting prior and new knowledge and experiences to shape and extend understanding
- summarize and represent personal viewpoints in clear and meaningful ways
- ask specific and focused questions for elaboration and clarification; engage in dialogue about experiences and understanding
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Lessons
A Day in the Life
Comic Book Characters
Cop Shows
Cinema Cops
Creating a Marketing Frenzy
Kids, Alcohol and Advertising: Understanding Brands
Alcohol Myths
Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising
Do You Believe This Camel?
Female Action Heroes
Freedom to Smoke
Gender Stereotypes and Body Image
Gender and Tobacco
Images of Learning: Elementary
Killer Games
Media Kids
Privacy and Internet Life
Scientific Detectives
Taking Charge of TV Violence
The Girl in the Mirror
Thinking Like a Tobacco Company: Grades 7–9
Video Production of a Newscast
Video Games
What's in a Word?
You've Gotta Have a Gimmick!
Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource)
MyWorld: A digital literacy tutorial for secondary students |
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listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to comprehend and respond personally and critically to oral, print, and other media texts |
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Use Strategies and Cues
- explain connections between previous experiences, prior knowledge and a variety of texts
- use comprehension strategies appropriate to the type of text and purpose
- use textual cues to construct and confirm meaning and interpret texts
Respond to Texts
- experience texts from a variety of genres and cultural traditions; discuss likes and dislikes for a variety of texts
- compare own with others’ understanding of people, cultural traditions, and values portrayed in a variety of oral, print, and other media texts
- identify language and visual images that create mood and evoke emotion in a variety of oral, print, and other media texts
Understand Forms and Techniques
- explain preferences for particular genres of oral, print and other media texts
- examine techniques of plot development [such as narrative hooks, conflict, resolution, surprise…] and of persuasion [such as testimonials, emotional appeals, bandwagon effects…] in oral, print, and other media texts
- recognize uses and abuses of slang, colloquialism, and jargon
- identify surprising and playful uses of language in oral, literary and media texts; explain ways in which figures of speech convey meaning
- create original texts [such as cartoon sequences, dialogues, short stories, letters, video presentations…] to communicate and demonstrate understanding of forms and techniques
Create Original Text [such as paintings and drawings, dramatizations, oral stories…] to
- communicate and demonstrate understanding of forms and techniques
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Lessons
The Broadcast Project
Selling Obesity
Scientific Detectives
The Way We Look
You Be the Editor
Bias in the News
Images of Learning: Elementary
Sports Personalities in Magazine Advertising
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
Alcohol Myths
Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising
Thinking Like a Tobacco Company: Grades 7–9
The True Story
Gender and Tobacco
Bias
Video Games
Killer Games
Comic Book Characters
TV Dads: Immature and Irresponsible?
Stereotyping and Bias: The Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf
The Way We Look
Cop Shows
Writing a Newspaper Article
Video Production of a Newscast
Freedom to Smoke
Tobacco Labels
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
Privacy and Internet Life
The Girl in the Mirror
Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource)
Passport to the Internet: Student tutorial for Internet literacy (Grades 4-8)
MyWorld: A digital literacy tutorial for secondary students
Student Activities/Handouts
Research Relay
Fact Versus Opinion
Teachable Moments
Photographic Truth in the Digital Era
Pop Music Reaches Way Down
Bad Ads Essay Writing Contest
A Fish Out of Water
Dove’s Campaign for Real Beauty
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listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to manage ideas and information |
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Select and Process
- determine literal and implied meaning of oral, print and other media texts using a variety of strategies and cues [such as headings, subheadings, topic sentences, summaries, camera angles, staging and pacing, screening out irrelevant information…]
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Lessons
Scientific Detectives
Kids, Alcohol and Advertising: Understanding Brands
Who’s On First: Alcohol Advertising and Sports
Alcohol Myths
The Target is You!: Alcohol Advertising Quiz
Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising
Do You Believe This Camel?
Thinking Like a Tobacco Company: Grades 7–9
Freedom to Smoke
The True Story
Truth or Money
Selling Obesity
Deconstructing Web Pages
Allies and Aliens: Interactive Module on Online Hate
You Be the Editor
Bias in the News
Sports Personalities in Magazine Advertising
Bias
Video Games
Comic Book Characters
Student Handouts/Activities
Research Relay
Fact Versus Opinion
Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource)
MyWorld: A digital literacy tutorial for secondary students |
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listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to enhance the clarity and artistry of communication |
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Generate and Focus
- consider form and audience when generating ideas and focusing a topic select and compose using specific forms that serve various audiences and purposes identify and use appropriate organizational patterns in own oral, written and visual texts
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Lessons
Create a Youth Consumer Magazine
Creating a Marketing Frenzy
Kids, Alcohol and Advertising: Young Drinkers
Alcohol Myths
Scientific Detectives
Taking Charge of TV Violence
Video Production of a Newscast
You've Gotta Have a Gimmick!
Looks Good Enough to Eat
Do You Believe This Camel?
Privacy and Internet Life
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listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to celebrate and build community |
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Develop and Celebrate Community
- compare ways in which oral, print and other media texts from a variety of cultures explore similar ideas compare the choices and behaviours or individuals presented in oral, print and other media texts with personal choices, values and behaviours
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Teaching Units
Female Action Heroes
Images of Learning: Elementary
Media Kids
Comic Book Characters
The Way We Look
You Be the Editor
Bias in the News
Sports Personalities in Magazine Advertising
Cop Shows
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