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Objectives

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Writing Listening
  • Write to reflect, clarify, and explore ideas (COM).
  • Write a film review.
  • Write to inform and to persuade.
  • Practise the behaviours of effective writers.
  • Compose effective paragraphs.
  • Practise the behaviors of effective listeners.
  • Listen to assess positions on issues.
Reading Responding/Viewing
  • Practise the behaviors of effective, strategic readers.
  • Identify author's purpose, tone, point of veiw, and theme.
  • Read a variety of texts for a variety of purposes (COM).
  • Explore human experiences and values reflected in texts (PSVS)
  • Relate literary experience to personal experience (PSVS).
  • Assess an author's ideas and techniques (CCT).
  • Test ideas and values against ideas in text
  • Record responses in a reader's journal, log, or notebook (COM).
  • Practise the behaviours of effective viewers.
  • Recognize language techniques and media conventions in television, film, and video presentations.
  • View a variety of material for a variety of purposes.
  • Respond personally, critically, and creatively to posters.
  • Recognize propaganda techniques.
  • Recognize and understand that prejudice, racism, sexism, and other forms of discriminatioin are destruction of one's own humanity, as well as that of others (PSVS).
  • Test ideas and values against ideas in a film or video.
  • Recognize stereotyping in media, analyze why it is used, and understand how such discriminatory practises affect various groups and individuals (PSVS).
Language Concepts Speaking
  • Words (and images) can have symbolic meaning (Language Concept).