Grade 6 Overall Expectations:
Demonstrate an understanding of a variety of media texts;
- Beanz (magazine)
- Wacky but True (magazine)
- Examples of point of view in a story (website)
- Top secret (website)
- A day in the life of the Jo’s (website)
- Coronavirus affecting the way we do things (website)
- CBC Kids news (website)
- What is Point of View? (YouTube)
Identify some media forms and explain how the conventions and techniques associated with them are used to create meaning;
- Cyberbullying (book)
- Safe Social Networking (book)
- Cell Phone Safety (book)
- Common portrayals of aboriginal people (website)
- Analyzing food ads (website)
- How to Choose Your News (YouTube)
- Social Media Explained (YouTube)
- Teen kids’ news (YouTube)
Create a variety of media texts for different purposes and audiences, using appropriate forms, conventions, and techniques;
- The Art of Making Comic Books (book)
- Lights, Camera, Action! (book)
- The Kid’s Guide to Digital Photography (book)
- How to Create Animation in 10 Easy Lessons (book)
- A newspaper assignment (website)
- Make a movie (website)
- Best apps for teaching media literacy (website)
- Deceptive Advertising (website)
- How McDonalds Fakes Their Food (YouTube)
- Online research (YouTube)
- How to make a storyboard (YouTube)
Reflect on and identify their strengths as media interpreters and creators, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful in understanding and creating media texts.
- TV Takeover (book)
- Virtually True (book)
- Pretty In Print (book)
- Coming Distractions (book)
- Scrambled News Stories and Newsworthiness (website)
- A lesson in Junk food advertising (website)
- Toy Commercials: Playing with Gender (YouTube)
- The Art of Persuasion (YouTube)