• About the Author
• Site Front Page
• Web Resources

• Chart of Media Key Concepts aligned with the Media Strand Expectations in Core English Grades 9-11

• Grade 10 Index Page
• Developing Critical Thinking with Television News
  • Television News Overview
  • Watching the News: Reasons, Tips, Benefits (pdf)
  • Taking Notes (pdf)
  • Issues in the News (pdf)
  • Discussion Guidelines (pdf)
  • Discussion Evaluation (pdf)

• Critical Viewing: Gladiator
  • Written Response to Gladiator

• Critical Viewing: Miss Congeniality
  • Overview of Heroic Quest Unit
  • Defining "Hero" (pdf)
  • Stages in the Heroic Quest
  • Stages in the Heroic Quest (pdf)
  • Teacher Resource: scene by scene time markers
  • Model Paragraph: The Title Sequence from Miss Congeniality
  • Handout: Movie Credits
  • Student Worksheet: note-taking for Miss Congeniality
  • Student Worksheet 2: note-taking for Miss Congeniality
  • Worksheet: Miss Congeniality Heroic Quest
  • Transforming Film into Writing: Chapter Writing Activity
  • Gender Stereotypes in Miss Congeniality (pdf)

Resources for Grade 11 University English

• Huxley's Brave New World
  • Huxley's Brave New World

Units and Lessons for Grade 12 University English

• Grade 12 Index Page
  • Internet Resources
    • 4U Internet Links Page
    • Critical Theory Sites
    • Grammar Sites
    • Listening and Note-taking Skills
  • Sophocles' Oedipus Rex
    • Sophocles WebQuest
  • Critical Media Analysis: Cultural Mythologies in Hollywood Film
    • Project Overview
    • Introduction to Cultural Mythology in A Thousand Acres (pdf)
    • Cultural Mythologies
    • Critical Media Analysis Assignment (pdf)
    • Calendar Schedule for Critical Media Unit
    • Cultural Mythology Mindmap (pdf)
    • Statements of North American Cultural Myths
    • Adaptation of Filmeducation.org's Film Language Teacher Resource (pdf)
    • Example of Opening Scene Analysis (pdf)
    • Title Sequence Viewing Journal (pdf)
  • Film/Novel Independent Study
    • Project Overview
    • Calendar Schedule for Independent Study Unit
    • Process Overview
    • Conferencing Expectations
    • Research Stages
    • A Note on the Meanings of "Academic," "Critical," and "Authoritative" when applied to Secondary Research
    • Model Annotated Reference List
    • Reference Reading/ Mind Mapping Activities
    • Choices of Novel/Movie pairs
    • Movie Analysis
    • From Page to Screen (pdf)
    • Novel Response Worksheet
    • Novel Analysis
    • List of Standard Thematic Concerns (pdf)
    • Essay Expectations
    • Essay Planning Worksheet: Option A (pdf)
    • Essay Planning Worksheet: Option B (pdf)
    • Presentation Expectations
    • Presentation Tips (pdf)
    • Project Evaluation Overview
    • Evaluation Rubric for Proposal
    • Evaluation Rubric for Presentation (pdf)

  Units and Resources for Grade 11 Media Studies

  • Index Pages
    • Media Studies Index Page
    • Lesson Index Page
  • Internet Resources
    • Internet Sites with Media Literacy focus
    • Sites with Information about Television Programs Relevant to Media Education
  • Key Concepts
    • Deconstruction Poster
    • Media Triangle Handout (pdf)
    • Another Version of the Media Triangle
    • Questions to Ask About A Media Text
    • Technical and Symbolic Codes Worksheet (pdf)
    • Suggested Answers to Technical and Symbolic Codes Worksheet (pdf)
    • Suggested Answer to Technical and Symbolic Codes Worksheet
    • Camera Vocabulary Handout (pdf)
    • Audience Targeting Techniques (pdf)
    • Television Viewing Assignment
    • Questions to Ask About Production
    • Evaluation Rubric for Discussion Skills
  • Perception: Understanding Construction of Visual Meaning Through a Study of Optical Illusions
    • Perceptual Filters (pdf)
    • "Constructing Meaning from the World" poster
    • Perception Activity 1
    • Perception Activity 2
    • Stroop Colour-Word Test
    • Candlestick Image
    • Lift Image 1
    • Lift Image 2
    • World Image 1
    • World Image 2
    • Number or Letter?
    • Perception Links
  • Bowfinger
    • Bowfinger Viewing Assignment
  • The Matrix
    • Viewer Response Assignment for The Matrix
    • Note-taking Organizer for The Matrix Revisited
  • Wes Craven's Scream
    • Article: "Insidious Fun" by Michael Redfern
    • Scream Continuity Errors
    • Scream Discussion Questions
    • Radio Show Assignment (pdf)
    • Rubric for Radio Show Assignment (pdf)
    • Scream Viewer Response Assignment
  • Horror Movie Marketing Project
    • Overview of Horror Movie Project
    • Movie Project Activities
    • Movie Marketing
    • Horror Movie Plot Conventions
    • Hollywood Movie Poster Conventions
    • Screenplay Formatting Conventions
    • Evaluation Rubric for Movie Project

document revised 25 Feb 2006
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