Lesson 2: Film Yourself Like a Boss (Patrick Shannon)
CREATE TO LEARN
• Evaluate how literary elements, techniques, and devices enhance and shape meaning
and impact
• Transform ideas and information to create original texts, using various genres, forms,
structures, and styles
New Media 12
Students will:
• Select and apply appropriate strategies in a variety of contexts to comprehend written,
oral, visual, and multimodal texts, to guide inquiry, and to transform thinking
• Recognize and understand how different forms, formats, structures, and features of
texts reflect a variety of purposes, audiences, and messages
• Transform ideas and information to create original texts, using various genres, forms,
structures, and styles
ALBERTA, NORTHWEST TERRITORIES AND NUNAVUT
Knowledge and Employability ELA 10, 11, 12
Students will:
• use guided peer and/or self-evaluation to assess their strengths and areas need-
ing improvement, using a variety of strategies; e.g., checklists, skills inventories and
discussion
• develop and deliver oral, visual and multimedia presentations, using voice production
factors, nonverbal factors, e.g., tone, volume, eye contact, gestures and posture, and
visual production factors, e.g., colour, contrast and movement, appropriate to the pur-
pose, audience and situation
• control aspects of style, e.g., font, size, style, colour, spacing of text, image placement,
sound and video links, within the presentation form or product for consistency and/or
to convey meaning
• interact and communicate with others in a positive manner, by considering appropriate
dress, space and conversational skills; e.g., when in a job interview, when communicat-
ing with a customer or coworker
English Language Arts 10-1
Students will:
• generate and experiment with strategies that contribute to forming tentative under-
standings, interpretations and positions
• 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
• take ownership of text creation, by selecting or crafting a topic, concept or idea that is
personally meaningful and engaging
English Language Arts 30-1
Students will:
• understand the concept of convention; and apply it to oral, print, visual and multimedia
text forms when appropriate
