Grade 8 Curriculum Expectations

Grade 8 Media Expectations:
Overall:
1. demonstrate an understanding of a variety of media texts;

3. create a variety of media texts for different purposes and audiences, using appropriate forms, conventions, and techniques;

Specific:
1.1 explain how a variety of media texts address their intended purpose and audience

3.1 explain why they have chosen the topic for a media text they plan to create (e.g.,a poster advertising a class fund-raising campaign to appeal to local parent
groups, businesses, or service organizations),and identify challenges they may
face in engaging and/or influencing their intended audience

3.4 produce a variety of media texts of some technical complexity for specific purposes and audiences, using appropriate forms,conventions, and techniques

Grade 8 Writing Expectations:
Overall:
1. generate, gather, and organize ideas and information to write for an intended purpose and audience;

Specific:
1.1 identify the topic, purpose, and audience for more complex writing for

1.3 gather information to support ideas for writing, using a variety of strategies and a wide range of print and electronic sources


Grade 8 Geography Expectations:
Unit 3: Migration
Overall:

-use a variety of geographic representations, resources, tools, and technologies to gather, process, and communicate geographic information about migration and its effects on people and communities;

Specific:
-identify the push and pull factors that influence people to move (e.g., push:
drought,war, lack of freedom, discrimination and persecution; pull: employment opportunities, security, climate);

-formulate questions to guide and analyse research on migration and mobility

-locate relevant information from a variety of primary and secondary sources

-communicate the results of inquiries for specific purposes and audiences, using computer slide shows, videos,websites, oral presentations, written notes and reports, illustrations, tables, charts, maps, models, and graphs