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British Columbia Outcome Chart: English Language Arts Grade 7 This outcome chart contains media-related learning outcomes from the British Columbia, 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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Reading and Viewing |
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Purposes (Reading and Viewing)
- demonstrate comprehension of visual texts with specialized features and complex ideas (e.g., visual components of media such as magazines, newspapers, web sites, reference books, graphic novels, broadcast media, videos, advertising and promotional materials)
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Lessons
Cop Shows
Images of Learning: Elementary
Comic Book Characters
Video Games and Video Violence
TV Dads: Immature and Irresponsible?
Gender and Tobacco
Alcohol Myths
Kids, Alcohol and Advertising: Messages About Drinking
The Target is You!: Alcohol Advertising Quiz
Dove’s Campaign for Real Beauty
The Way We Look
Smoke Screen: Tobacco in the Movies
Young Drinkers
Privacy and Internet Life
Alcohol Myths
News Journalism Across the Media:
Introduction
Definitions and Comments about the News
The Newspaper Front Page
Radio News
Teachable Moments
Dove’s Campaign for Real Beauty
Smoke Screen: Tobacco in the Movies
Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource)
Passport to the Internet: Student tutorial for Internet literacy (Grades 4-8)
MyWorld: A digital literacy tutorial for secondary students |
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Strategies
- select and use various strategies during reading and viewing to construct, monitor, and confirm meaning, including
– predicting
– making connections
– visualizing
– asking and answering questions
– making inferences and drawing conclusions
– using ‘text features’
– self-monitoring and self-correcting
– figuring out unknown words
– reading selectively
– determining the importance of ideas/events
– summarizing and synthesizing
- select and use various strategies after reading and viewing to confirm and extend meaning, including
– self-monitoring and self-correcting
– generating and responding to questions
– making inferences and drawing conclusions
– reflecting and responding
– visualizing
– using ‘text features’ to locate information
– using graphic organizers to record information
– summarizing and synthesizing
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Lessons
The Broadcast Project
Selling Obesity
You Be the Editor
Sports Personalities in Magazine Advertising
Thinking Like a Tobacco Company: Grades 7–9
True Story
Bias
Killer Games
Comic Book Characters
Stereotyping and Bias
Perceptions of Race and Crime
Do You Believe This Camel?
Gender and Tobacco
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
Who’s On First: Alcohol Advertising and Sports
Alcohol Myths
Gender Messages in Alcohol Advertising
Scientific Detectives
Selling Tobacco
Television Broadcast Ratings
Teachable Moments
Pop Music Reaches Way Down
Photographic Truth in the Digital Era
MNet Special Initiatives
Allies and Aliens: Interactive Module on Online Hate
Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource)
Passport to the Internet: Student tutorial for Internet literacy (Grades 4-8)
MyWorld: A digital literacy tutorial for secondary students |
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Thinking (Reading and Viewing)
- respond to selections they read or view, by
– expressing opinions and making judgments
supported by reasons, explanations, and
evidence
– explaining connections (text-to-self, text-to-
text, and text-to-world)
– identifying personally meaningful selections,
passages, and images
- read and view to improve and extend thinking, by
– analysing and evaluating ideas and information
– comparing various viewpoints
– summarizing and synthesizing to create new
ideas
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Lessons
A Day in the Life
Creating a Marketing Frenzy
Freedom to Smoke
Gender and Tobacco
Image Gap
Kids, Alcohol and Advertising: Young Drinkers
Alcohol Myths
Killer Games
Mirror Image
Perceptions of Race and Crime
Perceptions of Youth and Crime
Taking Charge of TV Violence
The Anatomy of Cool
The Girl in the Mirror
The Target is You!: Alcohol Advertising Quiz
Thinking Like a
Citizen
News Journalism: Lesson One
The Broadcast Project
Perceptions of Race and Crime
Perceptions of Youth and Crime
CyberSense and Nonsense Introduction
Video Games
Teachable Moments
A Gold Medal is Worth its Weight in Endorsements
Captive Audience?
Christmas Commercialism
Demographic Beer
Dove's Campaign for Real Beauty
Real Beauty in Magazines
Hurricane Katrina and News Media
Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource)
Passport to the Internet: Student tutorial for Internet literacy (Grades 4-8)
MyWorld: A digital literacy tutorial for secondary students |
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Features (Reading and Viewing)
- explain how structures and features of text work to develop meaning, including
- form, function, and genre of text (e.g.,
brochure about smoking to inform students;
genre is persuasive)
- text features (e.g., copyright, table of contents,
headings, index, glossary, diagrams, sidebars,
hyperlink, pull-quotes
- literary elements (e.g., characterization, mood,
viewpoint, foreshadowing, conflict, protagonist,
antagonist, theme)
- non-fiction elements (e.g., topic sentence,
development of ideas with supporting details,
central idea)
- literary devices (e.g., imagery, onomatopoeia,
simile, metaphor, symbolism, personification)
- idiomatic expressions
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Lessons
Do You Believe This Camel?
Gender Messages in Alcohol 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
Looks Good Enough to Eat
Scientific Detectives
Selling Tobacco
Sports Personalities in Magazine Advertising
The True Story
Thinking Like a Tobacco Company: Grades 7-9
Tobacco Labels
TV Dads: Immature and Irresponsible?
Elections and the Media
How to Analyze the News
News Journalism: Lesson Three
Summative Activities : Lesson Five
News Journalism: Lesson Two
Taking Charge of TV Violence
Violence Video Games
Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource)
Passport to the Internet: Student tutorial for Internet literacy (Grades 4-8)
MyWorld: A digital literacy tutorial for secondary students |
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Writing and Representing |
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Strategies (Writing and Representing)
- select and use various strategies before writing and representing, including
- setting a purpose
- identifying an audience, genre, and form
- analysing examples of successful writing and
representing in different forms and genres to
identify key criteria
- developing class-generated criteria
- generating, selecting, developing, and
organizing ideas from personal interest,
prompts, texts, and/or research
- select and use various strategies during writing and representing to express and refine thoughts, including
- referring to class-generated criteria
- analysing models of literature
- accessing multiple sources of information
- consulting reference materials
- considering and applying feedback from
conferences to revise ideas, organization,
voice, word choice, and sentence fluency
- ongoing revising and editing
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Lessons
Create a Youth Consumer Magazine
You Be the Editor
Sports Personalities in Magazine Advertising
Video Production of a Newscast
Writing a Newspaper Article
The Broadcast Project
News Journalism Across the Media:
Introduction
Definitions and Comments about the News
The Newspaper Front Page
Radio News
Teachable Moments
Bad Ads Essay Writing Contest
Tale of Two Cities
Student Tutorial (Licensed Resource)
Passport to the Internet: Student tutorial for Internet literacy (Grades 4-8)
MyWorld: A digital literacy tutorial for secondary students |
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