Migration Nation
The aim of this lesson is to assess the positive and negative impact of the media upon migration.
The lesson focuses on the role of newspapers and the tabloids, television programmes and films depicting migration since the Windrush embarkation up until the present day.
The lesson begins with the role of newspapers and their negative and sensationalist impact upon the reporting of migration; students earn how migrants are often portrayed, before completing a challenging task linking categories to newspaper headlines.
Students will then analyse the role television programmes have played with a focus on shows from the 1960s and 1970s, stereotyping migrants and how similar programees today still struggle to represent a multicultural Britain.
Finally, students focus on the role of film and the cinema and examine how they depict migration in a variety of ways.
A differentiated extended writing task will help students consolidate their learning and enable them to judge the positive and negative perspectives from the media and possible ways forward.
There are some excellent links to video footage throughout, although these need to be check beforehand and treated with care.
The plenary is guessing the headline quiz, in the style of ‘Have I got news for you?’
The lesson comes in PowerPoint format and can be changed and edited to suit.
The lesson is differentiated, fully resourced and includes suggested teaching strategies.
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