TakingITGlobal

Unit 2: Photography, Filming, and Acting CREATE TO LEARN ALBERTA, NORTHWEST TERRITORIES AND NUNAVUT English Language Arts 10-1 Students will: • generate and experiment with strategies that contribute to forming tentative under- standings, interpretations and positions • Experiment with language, image and structure • identify own ideas, perspectives and interpretations and evaluate them for depth of explanation, evidence or support; and consider the ideas, perspectives and interpreta- tions of others to broaden own understandings when exploring and responding to texts • recognize the use of elements of effective oral, visual and multimedia presentations [such as movement, gesture, use of space, shape and colour]; and describe their effects • take ownership of text creation, by selecting or crafting a topic, concept or idea that is personally meaningful and engaging • analyze and describe language and images used in literature and other texts to convey respectful and considerate, or disrespectful and inconsiderate, perspectives and atti- tudes [for example, stereotyping that contributes to negative portrayals of characters in literature and persons in life] English Language Arts 20-1 Students will: • generate and experiment with strategies that contribute to forming tentative under- standings, interpretations and positions • Experiment with language, image and structure • analyze and assess images in print and nonprint texts in terms of created reality and appropriateness to purpose and audience • describe the effectiveness of various texts, including media texts, for presenting feel- ings, ideas and information, and for evoking response • select a text form appropriate to the purpose for text creation and consistent with the content to be presented in the text [for example, select a photo essay to demonstrate a personal or critical/analytical response to poetry or other literature when the content to be presented is well suited to the creation of a visual text] • take ownership of text creation, by selecting or crafting a topic, concept or idea that is personally meaningful and engaging • use language and image to honour own and others' accomplishments [for example, celebrate together when classmates have accomplished a particular task or produced, published or presented a particular text; or celebrate the completion of a portfolio with family and friends by holding a "portfolio launch"] English Language Arts 30-1 Students will: • Form tentative understandings, interpretations and positions draw from a repertoire of effective strategies to form tentative understandings, interpretations and positions • understand the concept of convention; and apply it to oral, print, visual and multimedia text forms when appropriate • analyze and assess images in print and nonprint texts in terms of created reality and appropriateness to purpose and audience • select a text form appropriate to the purpose for text creation and consistent with the content to be presented in the text [for example, select a photo essay to demonstrate a personal or critical/analytical response to poetry or other literature when the content to be presented is well suited to the creation of a visual text] • take ownership of text creation, by selecting or crafting a topic, concept or idea that is personally meaningful and engaging • use language and image to honour own and others' accomplishments [for example, celebrate together when classmates have accomplished a particular task or produced, published or presented a particular text; or celebrate the completion of a portfolio with family and friends by holding a "portfolio launch"]

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