Grade 7 Overall Expectations:
Demonstrate an understanding of a variety of media texts;
- Media Meltdown: a Graphic Guide Adventure (Book)
- Media Madness: An Insider’s Guide to Media (Book)
- Beanz: The Magazine for Kids, Code and Computer Science (Magazine)
- Wacky…but True! (Magazine)
- What is Media Literacy? (YouTube)
- CBC News Kids (Website)
- Digital Media Literacy Framework – Grades 7 and 8 (Website)
Identify some media forms and explain how the conventions and techniques associated with them are used to create meaning;
- Share It!: Instagram Projects for the Real World (Book)
- Snap It!: Snapchat Projects for the Real World (Book)
- Violence as Entertainment: Why Aggression Sells (Book)
- Using Digital Maps (Book)
- Bias and Crime in Media (Website)
Create a variety of media texts for different purposes and audiences, using appropriate forms, conventions, and techniques;
- Super Smart Information Strategies: Understanding and Creating Infographics (Book)
- Super Smart Information Strategies: Creating a Digital Portfolio (Book)
- Lights, Camera, Action!: Making Movies and TV from the Inside Out (Book)
- Create With Code: Build Your Own Website (Book)
- Visual Storytelling: Inspiring a New Visual Language (Book)
- Learn to Speak Film: A Guide to Creating, Promoting and Screening Your Movies (Book)
- Storyboard Design Course: Principles, Practice, and Techniques (Book)
- Create Your Website in Simple Steps (Hoopla eBook)
- Visual Storytelling 101 (YouTube)
- Online Research: Tips for Effective Search Strategies (YouTube)
- A Newspaper Classroom Assignment – for Students (Website)
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.
- What’s the Catch?: How to Avoid Getting Hooked and Manipulated (Book)
- The Logo Design Idea Book: Inspiration from 50 Masters (Book)
- Made You Look: How Advertising Works and Why You Should Know (Book)
- Internet Safety (Book)
- Cyber-Safe Kids, Cyber-Savvy Teens: Helping Young People Learn to Use the Internet Safely and Responsibly (Book)
- What is Digital Citizenship? Book Series (Hoopla eBook)
- Beyond Media Messages: Media Portrayal of Global Development (Website)