What Do You Think?

Students examine ways that Canadians express their identities, and analyze the impact of media and communications technology on diversity to determine their position on the role of globalization in shaping culture and identity.

Focuses for Assessment: How the Outcomes Are Grouped

The Summative Assessment Task: What Do You Think?  and accompanying rubric  address the following focuses for assessment and corresponding specific outcomes from the Knowledge and Employability Social Studies 10-4 Program of Studies. Skills and Processes outcomes are clustered with Values and Attitudes outcomes and Knowledge and Understanding outcomes to provide robust opportunities for student learning. The Focuses for Assessment articulate what students will do to provide evidence of learning. Formative assessment opportunities within the suggested activities provide ways to support students in reaching the learning goals.

examine ways Canadians express their identities

Number	Specific Outcomes Students will:
10-4.1b	appreciate why peoples in Canada and other locations strive to promote their cultures, languages and identities in a globalizing world
10-4.1d	identify the various ways that people in Canada express their identities; e.g., role modelling, language, religion, spirituality, the arts, clothing, relationship to land, traditions
10-4.1h	examine efforts to promote languages and cultures in Canada in response to globalization; e.g., language laws, cultural content legislation, revitalization of language and culture
S.7.18	apply research processes: draw conclusions about cause and effect

analyze the impact of media and communications technology on diversity

Number	Specific Outcomes Students will:
10-4.1f	explore the impact of media and communications technology on diversity; e.g., universalization of pop culture, hybridization and diversification
S.7.18	apply research processes: draw conclusions about cause and effect

state and support a position

Number	Specific Outcomes Students will:
10-4.1c	appreciate how the forces of globalization shape, and are shaped by, identities and cultures
S.1.1	develop skills of critical and creative thinking: use an issue-analysis model to identify and define an issue or question, examine and evaluate several positions and formulate and defend a personal position