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Lessons

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Specific Expectations Covered

1

Understanding and Producing Media Texts

1.1 explain how media texts, including complex and challenging texts, are created to suit particular purposes and audiences; 1.2 interpret media texts, including complex or challenging texts, identifying and explaining with increasing insight the overt and implied messages they convey; 1.3 evaluate how effectively information, ideas, themes, issues, and opinions are communicated in media texts, including complex and challenging texts, and decide whether the texts achieve their intended purpose; 1.4 explain, with increasing insight, why the same media text might prompt different responses from different audiences; 1.5 identify and analyse the perspectives and/or biases evident in texts, including complex and challenging texts, commenting with understanding and increasing insight on any questions they may raise about beliefs, values, identity, and power;

2.2 identify conventions and/or techniques used in a variety of media forms and demonstrate insight into the way they convey meaning and influence their audience; 3.1 describe the topic, purpose, and audience for media texts they plan to create; 3.2 select the media form best suited to the topic, purpose, and audience for a media text they plan to create, and explain why it is the most appropriate choice;  4.1 demonstrate insight into their strengths and weaknesses as media interpreters and producers, and practise the strategies they found most helpful when interpreting and creating particularly complex media texts to improve their skills.

2

Visual Media

1.6 explain, with increasing understanding and insight, how production, marketing, financing, distribution, and legal/regulatory factors influence the media industry; 2.1 identify general and specific characteristics of a variety of media forms and demonstrate insight into the way they shape content and create meaning; 2.2 identify conventions and/or techniques used in a variety of media forms and demonstrate insight into the way they convey meaning and influence their audience; 3.4 produce media texts, including complex texts, for a variety of purposes and audiences, using the most appropriate forms, conventions, and techniques; 4.1 demonstrate insight into their strengths and weaknesses as media interpreters and producers, and practise the strategies they found most helpful when interpreting and creating particularly complex media texts to improve their skills; 4.2 explain how their skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing help them interpret and produce media texts.

3

Producing Media:

Podcasting

2.1 identify general and specific characteristics of a variety of media forms and demonstrate insight into the way they shape content and create meaning; 2.2 identify conventions and/or techniques used in a variety of media forms and demonstrate insight into the way they convey meaning and influence their audience; 3.3 identify a variety of conventions and/or techniques appropriate to a media form they plan to use, and explain why these will help communicate a specific aspect of their intended meaning most effectively; 4.1 demonstrate insight into their strengths and weaknesses as media interpreters and producers, and practise the strategies they found most helpful when interpreting and creating particularly complex media texts to improve their skills; 4.2 explain how their skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing help them interpret and produce media texts.