Atlantic Provinces Outcome Chart: English Language Arts Grade 12
This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the Atlantic Provinces Education Foundation, English Language Arts curriculum, Grade 12, with links to supporting resources on the Media Awareness Network site.
Each Atlantic Province follows closely the Atlantic Provinces Education Foundation Framework for English Language Arts. In this Framework, media literacy is integrated throughout the English Language Arts curriculum under the general learning outcomes of Speaking and Listening, Reading and Viewing and Writing and Other Ways of Representing.
| Speaking and Listening |
| Students will be expected to interact with sensitivity and respect, considering the situation, audience, and purpose. - demonstrate how spoken language influences and manipulates, and reveals ideas, values, and attitudes
- address the demands of a variety of speaking situations, making critical language choices, especially of tone and style
| Lessons Hype!
Television Newscasts
Video Production of a Newscast
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| Reading and Viewing |
| Students will be expected to respond personally to a range of texts. - make informed personal responses to increasingly challenging print and media texts and reflect on their responses
- make connections between their own values, beliefs, and cultures and those reflected in literary and media texts
- analyse thematic connections among texts and articulate an understanding of the universality of many themes
- demonstrate a willingness to explore diverse perspectives to develop or modify their points of view
- articulate and justify points of view about texts and text elements
- interpret ambiguities in complex and sophisticated texts
| Lessons Advertising and Male Violence
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!
How to Analyze the News
Hype!
Images of Learning: Secondary
Individuality vs. Conformity
Kellogg Special K Ads
Magazine Production
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
Movie Heroes and the Heroic Journey
That's Me You're Talking About
The Front Page
Bias in the News
Fact Versus Opinion
Diversity Audit
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
Privacy in the Information Age
Public Images
Scripting a Crime Drama
Teaching About Napster
Television Broadcast Ratings
Television Newscasts
The Blockbuster Movie
The Function of Music
The Pornography Debate: Controversy in Advertising
Resource Racket: A Global Perspective on Resources and Consumption
The White Screen: Absent Voices in the Media
Too White: Minority Representation in the Media
Sex in Advertising
Viewing a Crime Drama
Violence on Film: The Ratings Game
You Be the Editor Teachable Moments Dove’s Campaign for Real Beauty
Smoke Screen: Tobacco in the Movies
Photographic Truth in the Digital Era
The "BadAd" Essay Writing Contest
Captive Audience
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| 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 - produce writing and other forms of representation characterized by increasing complexity of thought, structure, and conventions
- demonstrate an understanding of the ways in which the construction of texts can create, enhance, or control meaning
- make critical choices of form, style, and content to address increasingly complex demands of different purposes and audiences
- evaluate the responses of others to their writing and media production
| Lessons Create a Youth Consumer Magazine
Magazine Production
Scripting a Crime Drama
Television Broadcast Ratings
Images of Learning: Secondary
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
The Privacy Dilemma
News Journalism Across the Media: Summative Activities
Video Production of a Newscast
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