VAUGHAN SECONDARY SCHOOL

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

Welcome to English Media Studies,

Grade 11, Open

(EMS3O1)

Prerequisite: ENG2P1/ENG2D1

Course Credit Value: 1.0

This course emphasizes knowledge and skills that will enable students to understand media communication in the twenty-first century and to use media effectively and responsibly. Through analysing the forms and messages of a variety of media works and audience responses to them, and through creating their own media works, students will develop critical thinking skills, aesthetic and ethical judgement, and skills in viewing, representing, listening, speaking, reading, and writing.

COURSE CONTENT AND RESOURCES

UNIT / RESOURCES / ANTICIPATED LENGTH*
1 / Key Concepts/Popular Culture / Teacher Collection / 10
2 / Our Constructed World: Media Environments / Teacher Collection / 20
3 / Seeing Ourselves: Media Representations / Teacher Collection / 15
4 / Selling Images & Values / Teacher Collection / 10
5 / The Global Citizen / Teacher Collection / 10
6 / New & Converging Technologies / Teacher Collection / 10
7 / Culminating Activities / Teacher Collection / 13

*The teacher may use his/her professional judgment to vary the length of any unit for reasons which include, but are not limited to, student needs, interests, and availability of resources.

STRANDS AND OVERALL EXPECTATIONS IN ENGLISH

Understanding & Interpreting Media Texts / Media & Society / The Media Industry / Producing & Reflecting on Media Texts
1. Understanding & Responding to Media Texts
2. Deconstructing Media Texts / 1. Understanding Media Perspectives
2. Understanding the Impact of Media on Society / 1. Industry & Audience: understanding how creators of media texts target & attract audiences
2. Ownership & Control: understanding of impact of regulation, ownership, & control on access, choice, & range of expression / 1.  Producing Media Texts
2.  Careers in Media Production
3.  Metacognition


ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION

Evaluation of summative work uses the following scale.

Level 4
80-100% / Level 3
70-79% / Level 2
60-69% / Level 1
50-59% / Remedial
Below 50%
A very high to outstanding level of achievement. Achievement is above the provincial standard / A high level of achievement. Achievement is at the provincial standard. / A moderate level of achievement. Achievement is below, but approaching, the provincial standard. / A passable level of achievement. Achievement is below the provincial standard. / Insufficient achievement of curriculum expectations. A credit will not be granted.

Students will be given multiple opportunities, through assignments including written pieces, tests and quizzes, research projects, oral presentations, and oral and written analytical works, to demonstrate their levels of skill in the achievement categories listed below.

The four achievement categories of knowledge and skills within which the subject expectations for this course are organized are interrelated, reflecting the wholeness and interconnectedness of learning.

Achievement Categories / Term
(70%) / Final
(30%) / Total
(100%)
Knowledge
-subject-specific content acquired in this course and the comprehension of its meaning and significance / 17.5% / 7.5% / 25%
Thinking
-planning skills, processing skills, critical/creative thinking processes / 17.5% / 7.5% / 25%
Communication
-conveying meaning through various oral, written, and visual forms, including electronic forms / 17.5% / 7.5% / 25%
Application
-use of knowledge and skills to make connections within and between various contexts / 17.5% / 7.5% / 25%

course outline for EMS3O1.doc

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