Curriculum Connections: Pourin' Down Rain
English
Grade 7/8 Language- Oral Communication
- develop and explain interpretations of oral texts using stated and implied ideas from the texts to support their interpretation
- identify a variety of listening comprehension strategies and use them appropriately before, during, and after listening in order to understand and clarify the meaning of increasingly complex or challenging oral texts
- communicate orally in a clear, coherent manner, using a structure and style appropriate to both the topic and the intended audience
- explain the connection between a speaker's tone and the point of view or perspective presented in oral texts
- identify a range of purposes for speaking and explain how the purpose and intended audience might influence the choice of speaking strategies
Social Studies: Canada and World Connections
Grade 6/7
- identify and describe Canada's economic, political, social, and physical links with the United States and other regions of the world;
- explain the relevance to Canada of current global issues and influences.
- identify Canada's connections with the United States through the media, trade, immigration, culture, technology, tourism, history, and geography (e.g., television programs, trade in vehicles, historical roots, common geographic features, shared water- ways, common environmental initiatives)
- use a variety of primary and secondary sources to locate and process relevant information about Canada's links with the world (e.g., primary sources: statistics, field trips, interviews, original documents; secondary sources: maps, illustrations, print materials, videos, CD-ROMs, Internet sites)
- observing bibliographic conventions, use media works, oral presentations, written descriptions, illustrations, tables, charts, maps, and graphs to communicate main ideas, with supporting evidence, about the various regions of the United States and about one other country from another region of the world
- use appropriate vocabulary (e.g. technology, culture, immigration, tourism, physical features, indigenous peoples, export, import, parallels, meridians, Pacific Rim, economics, media) to describe their inquiries and observations.