English 12 (two blocks)

For English 12, I created a media unit that I taught in two blocks, and my SA taught in one block. The unit focused on commercials and advertising, Canadian stereotypes, social media, news, satire/parody, and reliability of information. When I put the unit together, I wanted it to be something that enticed the students to be invested in the topic and encouraged their points of view. Some of the work that students created were presentations on different forms of social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and Tumblr. They were encouraged to use their own devices to research their social media platform. Also, they wrote an opinion piece on the topic of reliability in the news, and created a social media advertisement that was promoting a social media platform, or was a work of satire that criticizes a social media platform. Please see examples below:

Examples of class materials:

 Social Media Advertising Assignment and Rubric:

Social Media Advertising Exemplars: