Rights and Responsibilities

Presentation

The Rights and Responsibilities learning guide engages the student in an exploration of topics and issues related to exercising one's rights and responsibilities as a citizen. Some of the topics discussed are: literacy on the job, judging the reliability of information, budgeting, being a consumer, and defending one's rights. Each chapter models an authentic situation that develops the skills and competencies required to accomplish the tasks. The course addresses a single class of situations: Using language in exercising rights and responsibilities. This is the second of two courses for the Secondary II level.

Content

The learning guide contains ten learning situations and four formative assessment situations. The learning guide explores issues related to rights and responsibilities by presenting a series of scenarios to the student. The students are guided in developing the skills and competencies necessary to complete the tasks embedded in the scenario. The students produce various multi-media forms such as opinion essays, budget recommendations, formal and informal letters, cover letters and résumés, brochures, and public service announcements. Comic strips, photo stories, and short stories are used throughout to create context and draw a parallel between fiction and non-fiction as relates to issues and concerns related to rights and responsibilities. spoken word poetry. Students are required to form and express opinions and preferences. Media resource page: online or down-loadable audio and video resources Annexes: Glossary, Answer Key,

Recipients

Secondary II, English, Language of Instruction students.

Prerequisites

Enjoyment and Entertainment I (ENG-2101-2)

Notes

A Teacher/Tutor Guide is available for download.The scored activities can be purchased separately. This work is funded by the Ministère de l'Éducation, de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche du Québec and by the Canada-Quebec Agreement on Minority Language Education and Second Language Instruction.