| Division: Junior |
Subject: Language |
Strand: Media Literacy |
Overall Expectations
| Grade 4 |
Grade 5 |
Grade 6 |
- demonstrate an understanding of a variety of media texts
- identify some media forms and explain how the conventions and techniques associated with them are used to create meaning
- create a variety of media texts for different purposes and audiences, using appropriate forms, conventions, and techniques
- 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
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- demonstrate an understanding of a variety of media texts
- identify some media forms and explain how the conventions and techniques associated with them are used to create meaning
- create a variety of media texts for different purposes and audiences, using appropriate
forms, conventions, and techniques
- 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
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- demonstrate an understanding of a variety of media texts
- identify some media forms and explain how the conventions and techniques associated with them are used to create meaning
- create a variety of media texts for different purposes and audiences, using appropriate forms, conventions, and techniques
- 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
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Virtues & Themes: Possible Connections
Theological Virtue: Love
The gift of Christian love enables us to love God above all things and to love others as God loves them. God’s gift of love directs and gives strength to our life of virtue. Our model of love is Jesus, who laid down His life so that we might have life to the full (Jn. 10: 10). |
The media are powerful tools for delivering messages, especially about love. Love for a car, clothing, cell phone or computer is often portrayed in the media as the most important thing in a person's life. But nothing can be more important than love. Love gives us the true perspective for creating media texts and understanding their meaning. Love can guide us as we reflect together and identify our strengthsas media interpreters and creators, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful in understanding and creating media texts. Read some stories about Jesus, discuss what they mean, then look at media through the lens of His message of love. |
Cardinal Virtue: Justice
Justice is found in persons who practice… -seeking what is good in every situation, and -living in right relationship with God and neighbour. A just person fulfills their obligations to God in prayer and worship, and to neighbour in mercy and fairness. |
The Gospel of Jesus and Church teaching remind us that were made for justice - for seeking what is good and living in harmony with God and neighbour. As we examine media texts, identify media forms and their meaning and create media texts, we can ask a simple question: Does the message of this media form promote love of God and neighbour, or does it put something else in their place? The answer to this question will tell how just its message is. Teaching young people to ask these kinds of questions will help equip them for navigating by faith through the confusing daily messages that bombard them in the media. |
Catholic Character Theme: Reverence
We treat creation with reverence because it is charged with God’s holy Presence, and is a sacred gift from God to sustain the human family. We look on all human persons with great reverence. We are God’s masterpieces, made in the divine image and likeness. |
All persons are sacred. Since all people are made in the image and likeness of God they do not lose their dignity because of gender, disability, poverty, age etc. Television program reviews, mock television broadcasts, soundtracks to accompany a reading, computer-generated covers, multimedia presentations, pamphlets or other media forms can be used by students to convey messages about the importance of treating all persons and creation with reverence. |
Catholic Character Theme: Community
Catholic schools are part of the parish faith community. Together with the parish, they are places where we can learn and grow as followers of Jesus. Jesus is the heart of our community. |
The notion of community is central to Christian life. As students identify, reflect, interpret and create media texts they will become more aware of overt and implied messages and their positive or negative impact on our life as a community. As members of a Catholic school community we have an obligation to ensure that views being presented in our media texts are balanced in nature and are free of stereotypes that stop us from seeing and loving Jesus in all persons. |
Support Resources
| Journey Activities |
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Grade 5 |
Grade 6 |
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Curriculum Frameworks
http://www.eoccc.org/onlinefw/onlineframeworks.html |
Grade 3-4
Framework 1. Theme: Community and the Common Good
Framework 2. Theme: Peace
Framework 3. Theme: Mystery Wonder & Awe
Framework 5. Theme: Love and Justice
Framework 6. Theme: Hope
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Grade 4
Framework 1. Theme: Love & Justice
Framework 2. Theme: Community and the Common Good
Framework 3. Theme: Mystery Wonder & Awe
Framework 4. Theme: Stewardship for Creation
Framework 5. Theme: Human Rights and Responsibilities
Framework 6. Theme: Dignity of Work and Service
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Grade 4-5
Framework 1. Theme: Mystery, Wonder & Awe
Framework 2. Theme: Community and the Common Good
Framework 3. Theme: Peace
Framework 4. Theme: Dignity of the Human Person
Framework 5. Theme: Human Rights and Responsibilities
Framework 6. Theme: Stewardship for Creation
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Grade 5
Framework 1. Theme: Peace
Framework 2. Theme: Dignity of Work and Service
Framework 3. Theme: Mystery, Wonder & Awe
Framework 4. Theme: Human Rights and Responsibilities
Framework 5. Theme: Stewardship for Creation
Framework 6. Theme: Community and the Common Good
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Grade 5-6
Framework 1. Theme: Dignity of the Human Person
Framework 2. Theme: Human Rights and Responsibilities
Framework 3. Theme: Community and the Common Good
Framework 4. Theme: Stewardship for Creation
Framework 5. Theme: Mystery, Wonder & Awe
Framework 6. Theme: Dignity of Work and Service
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Grade 6
Framework 1. Theme: Mystery, Wonder & Awe
Framework 2. Theme: Dignity of Work and Service
Framework 3. Theme: Community and the Common Good
Framework 4. Theme: Human Rights and Responsibilities
Framework 5. Theme: Stewardship for Creation
Framework 6. Theme: Dignity of the Human Person
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Grade 6-7
Framework 1. Theme: Love & Justice
Framework 2. Theme: Stewardship for Creation
Framework 3. Theme: Peace |
Grade 6-7 Cont'd
Framework 4. Theme: Dignity of the Human Person
Framework 5. Theme: Mystery Wonder & Awe
Framework 6. Theme: Hope
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