Elementary

• What Colour is Best?/Quelle couleur est la meilleure? - (Yr 2) In this bilingual situation, students complete Task 2 and Task 4 in English. In Task 2, students listen to and discuss two picture books about colour. They then individually write a response to the second story. In Task 4, students create a media production (poster) to promote the colour they have chosen as the best.

• Inventions: For better or worse? - (Yr2) Students will be reading and responding to a variety of text types. They will be required to watch a video, write a response to a short story, and they will be presented with a choice of situations that each present a problem needing a solution. They will be asked to design an invention and then to create a media text (advertisement) to promote their design. Lastly, students will write a narrative or an information-based text that is linked to the inventions they have created.
• Should there be zoos?  - (Yr 2) Students interview a partner and attempt to come up with a working definition of a zoo and then to answer the question, "Do we need zoos?" This is followed by writing a response to a short story that has been read aloud to them. After this, students work with two packets of information to prepare arguments for a debate that is organized by the teacher. The students' final task is to write a narrative reflecting their own position on the essential question.

• A Journey Among the Inuit and Mi'kmaq around 1980 - (Yr 2) Integrated LES in ELA and Social Studies. Explore the diversity of Inuit and Mi'kmaq societies and their territories, around 1980, by creating a Web folder of traditional artifacts produced by these communities using the image bank on the McCord Museum site.
• Space Adventure - (Yr 2) Integrated LES in ELA, Mathematics and Science. Our school would like to raise student awareness of and interest in International Space Day celebrations held each year on the first Friday of May. All cycle three students are invited to investigate popular themes of space and to present their findings to other students in the school.

  Secondary

• Charity: What difference do YOU make? - (Yr 1, 2) Students will be required to research inspirational figures who reached out to those around them and then develop a Service Learning Project which will be documented in a reflective journal.
• Films for Change - (Yr 1, 2) Designed as an interdisciplinary approach to integrating National Film Board (NFB) documentaries on environmental issues across a range of classroom contexts and subject areas.
• Heroes - (Yr 1) Students will examine the concept of heroism and attempt to define the characteristics and the circumstances that make one a hero.
• Make a Teen Magazine - (Yr 1, 2) This unit is to help students to demystify the media industry.  More specifically, they will learn how a magazine is created by creating one themselves.
• Peer pressure and sexting - (Yr 1, 2) Students will explore the potential risks of posting images online, discuss social networking groups and create an Ad campaign.  
• Portrait of Nunavik, from Past to Present - (Yr 1, 2) Integrated LES with ELA and Social Studies. Students will re-photograph one or two scenes from the past or a vintage object used by the Inuit, chosen from among a selection of images found on the McCord Museum Web site. Create a folder showing the chosen historical images and the photographs taken by the students in order to compare past and present-day life in Nunavik.
• Sports: Winning at ANY cost - (Yr 1, 2) Students will explore the values, messages and lessons, both positive and negative, imbedded in sports to create a Public Service Announcement promoting ethical practice of sport.   

• Cell phones: addiction, necessity, or just fun? - (Yr 2)  Students will read and respond to a narrative text on social networking, deconstruct advertisements, construct and ad and write an explanatory text.
• Extreme Sports: Is it worth it? - (Yr 2)  Students will view and discuss a multimodal slideshow, read and write a single-draft response to a short story, read one of three magazine inserts, and write a quick write and a commentary.
• Privacy and Security: What's the difference? - (Yr 2) This ES provides the teacher with all the necessary tools, including audio texts, for students as they explore the issue of public security versus personal privacy and culminates with the writing of a short story.
• Shades of Green - (Yr 2) Students will explore the issues surrounding the idea of "being green."
• What makes you who you are? - (Yr 2) Students will explore self identity throughout their exploration of activities and issues such as nature vs nurture, influences of friends, and esoteric theories like numerology and astrology.  Talk, media and writing are all featured.

• Affecting change through photo journaling - (Yr 1) Students will research concepts such as fair trade, sustainable consumption, eco conscious and consumerism to create a photo journal.
• Describing Historical Photographs - (Yr 1, 2) Observe and describe eight historical photographs according to the directions provided in a folder on the McCord Museum's Web site.
• Inside Out - at the Heart of Success - (Yr 1) Students consider the question "What is success?" through images, short story and podcast before writing an opinion piece.
• Rewind - Retro-progressive or simply nostalgic? - (Yr 1) Students will explore the re-emergence of seemingly outdated practices and ideas and will then be required to write an opinion article.
• Stereotypes in literature and media - (Yr 1) Students will explore how authors and the media address stereotyping/prejudice  to become critical readers before producing a written narrative.
• What impact do traditions have in my life? - (Yr 1) Students will examine the use of podcasting as a form of spoken text.
• What is a community? - (Yr 1) Students will compare online communities with web sites in order to produce a community in their own context (online school).

• Food: A local or global issue? - (Yr 2) Students look at some of the issues surrounding the food industry on both a local and a global level. They will view a slideshow, read a short story and newspaper feature followed by their own writing of a commentary.
• Journaling from past to present - (Yr 2) Students will learn the many purposes of journal writing and then use this knowledge as a basis for maintaining their own multimodal journal throughout the academic year.
• Persuasion of mass media - ( Yr 2) Students will examine and reflect on how visual texts can be used to manipulate an audience to construe deliberate messages.
• Social Media  - (Yr 2)   Students will view, read and discuss a variety of texts delivered through various social media such as television, radio, newspapers and the internet.
• Social Networking, Truth and Perception - (Yr 2) This ES consists of four blocks built around the idea of communicating using social networks. It also underlines the idea that networking to communicate is not limited to the newer phenomenon of digital social networking.
• The fragility of the human condition - (Yr 2) Students will learn how language is used in literature and prose to convey the fragility of the human condition in situations that evoke strong human emotion. They will then write an essay, a poetry production and a multimodal ad campaign.
• Trouble on the farm - should we care? - (Yr 2) Students will explore through video and blogs the role of farmers and farming in our everyday life before they are asked to write and produce their own blog. 
• What is Utopia? - (Yr 2) The purpose of this unit is to have students learn how literature and media texts are used to explore the concept of utopia, or a “ perfect society”.  

• Civility - (Yr 3) Students will consider a widespread impression that there is a need for more civility in modern life and will explore this notion in a variety of contexts.
• Independent Study - Inquiry Project - (Yr 3) This is a project designed to implement most of the content in the TALK competency with regards to the independent unit of study, inquiry process, research methodology and spoken report of findings.
• Rights of the Child - (Yr 3) Students will listen to and share ideas on many different social, economic, geographic and political conditions of childhood from sometimes opposing perspectives. They will consider these issues and points of view in order to develop their own stance on the topic.
• Youth Culture: Empowerment or Exploitation? - (Yr 3) This is the optional media component from the Secondary V June 2010 High School Leaving Exam. Students will produce a multimodal slide show inspired by the readings provided in the second edition of the magazine Zine-ith: Youth Culture or the Literature Booklet from the exam.