I am an A Level tutor who teaches Film Studies A Level & G.C.S.E., Sociology A Level, E.P.Q., English Language G.C.S.E.
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I am an A Level tutor who teaches Film Studies A Level & G.C.S.E., Sociology A Level, E.P.Q., English Language G.C.S.E.
*PLEASE REVIEW*
I complete schemes of work for each of my courses and aim to upload as many resources as I can in the near future. If you like my work and would like to request a resource, please let me know and I will produce what you need.
I produce video resources here:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC31WbZO2OQW3Ul108I0QUmw
This pack can be used to introduce any DOCUMENATRY module for both Film and Media studies A Level courses.
This pack contains a 40-slide PowerPoint AND an accompanying YouTube video that covers the following topics/content
PART I -
What is a documentary - Student starter task: define âdocumentaryâ
Discussion of how uses of key elements may differ from narrative film
Student experiences with documentary
Types of Documenaty (task)
Technical conventions of Documentary (task)
True/false / discussion task
Introduction to Bill Nichols and âDocumentary Modesâ
Short research task - students given one âmodeâ each and then asked to research for 10 mins - feedback to the class
Discussion for each of Nicholsâ Modes
Polemic
Expository
Observational
Participatory
Reflexive
Performative
PART II -
John Grieson on what a documentary is
âEdge of Realityâ - dealing with actuality; the real
Task - comparing the represenation of WWI in narrative film (Paths of Glory) with documentary film (They Shall Never Grow Old)
Slides are included that go through each clip and consolidate the key points
Fictional Actors / Social Actors
PLenary: this is to be added but suggest task is:
Research the documentary that you and your students will be studying for your course - note down:
Documentary mode
Conventions used etc
This pack covers and contains:
an introduction to the Research Methods in Context exam question
Re-cap of Research Methods key terms/factors
Exemplar question - task and teacher led discussion of how to answer the question
Exemplar question - task; students to repeat the previous task using another question
Sample response anlaysis task
Extended Research Methods in Context plenary activities
Assessment that can be set as homework (with sample answer)
In-depth student handout - gapped section, re-cap of Research Methods, activities and sample response(s)
Methods in Context textbook scans
Methods in context CRIB SHEET
All resources needed
This pack contains a 39 slide PowerPoint and a student booklet.
The lesson covers:
Starter task - student perceptions of ethnicity in education
Overview of Internal and External factors
Tony Sewel - Fathers, Gangs, Culture
Asian Families; Asian work ethnic, resistance to racism
White Working Class Families
Critiques of Cultural Deprivation theory
Material Deprivation and Class
Racism in Wider Society
Case study: racism in wider society
Documentary analysis: David Harwoodâs âWill Britain Ever Have a Black Prime Minister?â
This pack contains a 51-slide PowerPoint Presentation and an accompanying 50 page student booklet
The lessons covers:
Starter - students to discuss and debate rise of secularism, why religious belief is in decline, etc.
Definitions of Secularisation
**Discussion of basic census data **- introduce the central arguement: secularisation is taking place!
Church attendance in decline - reasons for this, alternative ways to interpret this data
Decline in Baptisms, rise of Bogus Baptism
Task - what others reasons can students think of to explain a decline in church attendance?
Decline in Religious affiliation
The church is losing its influence as a social institution
Decline in number of clergy - âLinda Woodheadâ
Steve Bruce - Reinforce the view that secularisation is happening
Explanations of Secularisation
Religious affiliation is in decline / reasons why this is happening are discussed
Growth of Social and Religious diversity undermines the mainstream organisations
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Max Weber - Rationalisation**
Rationalisation
Desenchantment - Protestant Reformation and Maritn Luther
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Steve Bruce - Technological World View**
Structural Differentiation
Disengagement
Privatised religion
Social & Cultural Diversity
Reading/comprehension activity for students to complete independently
Feedback / Q&A
Critics of Social and Cultural Diversity
Religious Diversity
Cultural Defence
Cultural Transition
Religion as a focal point for group identity
Secularisation in America
American Way of Life
Religion has become superficial in the USA
Steve Bruce - summary and supporting evidence
Critiques of Secularisation theory
Assessment / Consolidation
in-class quiz (with answers)
10- mark assessment
This pack contains a 20-slide PowerPoint and accompanying booklet.
The lesson is the first in a series of lessons designed to cover âBeliefs in Societyâ module of AQAâs Paper 2.
The lesson covers:
Starter
students asked to define religion
Students asked to identify religious symbols - discussion of what students already know about selected global religions [mainstream and NRMs]
Debate: Is religion a force for good or force for evil in the world?
Benefits and Drawbacks of religion
Discussion of âWhy we are studying Religionâ
What is Religion?
Substantive Definition
Functional Definition
Constructionist Definition
All three definitions are explored in detail. The strengths and limitations of each definition are discussed in a task
Summary
Assessment - 10 mark question
Planning activity included
This pack contains a 20-slide PowerPoint presentation and accompanying 7-page student booklet
Lesson
Starter:
Define:
State Crime (examples given, discussing encouraged)
Human Rights (examples given, discussing encouraged)
STATE CRIME:
1 - The Scale of State Crimes
2 - The State is the Source of Law
McLaughlin - Four types of STATE CRIME:
1 - Political Crimes
2 - Crimes by Security Forces and Police
3 - Economic Crimes
4 - Social and Cultural Crimes
Group Presentation tasks:
Students to research a pre-scribed example of a state crime
They are given lesson time to research the topic and then create a presentation - presentations to be delivered AFTER rest of this session has been delivered
Defining STATE CRIMES:
Domestic Law (Chambliss) - with examples)
Social Harms [Michalowski] - (with examples)
Zemiology - (with examples)
ARE THESE STATE CRIMES - task
International Law [Rothe and Millins]
HUMAN RIGHTS
definition re-cap from starter
Human Rights include:
1 - Natural Rights
2 - Civil Rights
Cohen and a discussion of Natural / Civil Rights
Discussion of the Irish Famine
Plenary - students to present their presentations. Class to make notes on:
Why and how do large numbers of normally law-abiding citizens become involved in atrocities?
This pack contains one lesson and one accompanying handout that covers
AQA year 13 SOCIOLOGY - Feminist View of Religion
The lesson covers:
Evidence of patriarchy in religion
What would Liberal/Radical/Marxist feminists think about religion task
Answers to previous question
Research tasks - evidence of patriarchal ideologies in religion
Four categories are given for the research task
Consolidation from task
Evaluation of feminist view: Karen Armstrong, Nawal El Saadawi, Linda Woodhead, Sophie Gilliat Ray Elisabth Brusco,
Secular society
Assessment - 10 mark question set
The booklet is detailed, contains additional content and further reading. Students will complete the handout during the lesson and write their assessment in the same book.
This pack contains a 40-slide PowerPoint presentation, a 24-page student booklet, and several other resources to be used in the session.
The lesson covers:
Starter - student experiences with crime and deviance in media
Media Representation of Crime and Deviance overview: (1 slide on each of these topics:)
Violence and Sex Crimes
Media representation of victims
Media exaggeration of certain crimes
Media exaggeration of risk to victims
Crime represented as a series of events
Media overplay extraordinary crimes
Dramatic Fallacy
Soothill & Walby: the Balaclava Rapist / exaggeration of criminal acts
New Values and Coverage
Mediation of Crime / Crime as a social construct
Selection / Organisation /Focus
Task - students read Sky News article covering the mugging of Sajid Javid and analyse the use of langauge, exaggeration of crime, idelogical underpinning of this media report
(the entire article is broken down in the PowerPoint (see screenshots for examples)
News Values
Fictional Representations of Crime:
Surette [1998] â Fictional representations of crime, criminals and victims are the opposite of the official statistics.
Immitaiton
Arousal
Desensitisation
Transmission of Knowledge
Stimulating Desire
PROTRAYING THE POLICE AS INCOMPETENT or CORRUPT
BY GLAMOURISING OFFENDING
Evaluation of Fictional Representations of Crime
Reading task - students read extract from the âMyth of Media Violenceâ study and compare the findings to what we have covered in the lesson
FEAR OF CRIME:
Distortion of crime in the media
RELATIVE DEPRIVATION AND CRIME
Left Realist view
Cultural Criminology
Cultural Criminology with examples
Global Cyber Crime
The PowerPoint has a short âMoral Panicsâ lesson attached to it. The slides are not to the same standard as the content listed above and have been included free of charge. I have covered Moral Panics in a more depth and with better resources in a previous Crimes and Deviance lesson pack: /teaching-resource/aqa-sociology-paper-3-conflict-theories-of-crime-and-deviance-12790478
Tasks are included throughout the lesson and student knowledge is tested throughout the session.
The student booklet is to be filled in and completed during the lesson.
This pack contains a 16-slide Power-Point that introduces FEMINISM, and an accompanying booklet.
The lessons introduces students to:
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Definition of Feminism
Class discussion: what do students already know? What is their understanding of feminism?
Discussion and definition of Patriarchy
Feminism as a Structural/Conflict theory
Brief history of Feminism - tasks included
âGood Wife Guideâ
Equal Pay Act
Contraceptive pill
Feminism in the 70s, 80s
Women in the media
Bechdel Test
Plenary: task and discussion
There are TWO copies of the lesson - one formatted for MAC and one formatted for PC.
This pack contains a 16-slide Power-Point that introduces MARXISM, and an accompanying booklet.
The pack also contains a a consolidation test to test student knowledge at the end of the session.
The lessons introduces students to:
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Definition of Marxism
Marxism as a Conflict/Structural Theory
How Marxism differs from Functionalism
Tasks that explore the characteristics of the Proletariat / Bourgeois
Discussion of the Super-structure
Plenary/Consoldiation quiz - handout and responses provided
There are TWO copies of the lesson - one formatted for MAC and one formatted for PC.
This pack contains the following:
Complete lesson:
Starter task (re-cap key terms)
What is a Questionnaire?
Types of questions: closed/open
Strengths of questionnaires
Weaknesses of questionnaires
Pilot Studies
Plenary assessment tasks
Booklet
Sample response to exam question
Functionalist view of Family, complete lesson and handout. The pack covers:
Re-cap of Functionalism
George Peter Murdock (1949)
Stable satisfaction of the sex drive
Socialisation of the young
Reproduction of the next generation
Meeting its membersâ economic needs
Criticisms of Murdock
Parsonsâ Functional Family Fit
The Nuclear Family**
Extended Family
Function of the Nuclear and Extended Family
TWO BASIC AND IRREDUCTABLE FUNCTIONS
The Family as the âPeaceful Havenâ
Critiques of the Functionalist View
This pack covers Dark Side of the Family: Domestic Abuse - Radical Feminist, Materialist perspectives
The PowerPoint covers:
Definition: domestic violence
What do sociologists say?
Kathryn Coleman
What does Domestic Violence occur?
Radical Feminist Explanation
Materialist Explanation
Plenary - 10 mark assessment
This pack also contains:
Handout/booklet to accompany the PowerPoint - students use this in class, it contains all info they need
Assessment handout
This pack contains a 32-slide PowerPoint presentation that covers Quentin Tarantinoâs experimental Auteur status [using Pulp Fiction as primary text]
The lesson covers:
Hyper-Real nature of QTâs work
Starter Task: revisit Auteur theory
Discuss exam questions - then introduce exam question this PowerPoint will answer
Group task - mind-map everything you know about QT and his signature style
Feedback - mind-map included within the PowerPoint - run through this with students after their task
optional research task
How to write an introduction to this question
The following signature features of QTâs ouevre are covered:
Subversion of genre / influences
Post Modern approach / narrative
French New Wave - influences (with scene analysis/comparison task)
âSubversion of realities of social structuresâ aka QTâs approach to representation (essay to be read by students then discussed)
More technical features and interior meaning - foot fetishism and representation of women in his films
mise-en-scene
Music
Essay planning acticity
Pack also includes:
Essay discussing QTâs approach to representation
sample essay
This pack contains a 59-slide PowerPoitnt presentation and accompanying student booklet
This PowerPoint will take approx 3 lessons / hours and ends with an in class, timed assessment activity
The lessons covers:
Starter - How do students interpret the term âexperimentalâ cinema? - discussion and feedback
Introduce Pulp Fiction as our focus text, reinforce student areas, etc
Show past paper questions - student read questions - Q&A session to address studentâs initial concerns
Read and evaluate the âIndicative Contentâ provided by EDUQAS
Define: Mainstream cinema
Task - students to outline conventions of âmainstreamâ cinema
Define: Experimental Cinema
Discussion task after definition provided
Students discuss the ways a filmmaker can experiment with film form, approach to ideology and representation
Conventions of Experimental / Post-modern cinema
Intertextuality
Self-referential
Fragmentation of Time and Space
Homage
Pastiche
Parody
Hyper-reality
Non-sequitors
Consoidation task - screen fist 5 minutes from Une Chien Andalou (this can obviously be swapped out for your own examples/texts)
Part II - Starter - re-cap conventions of EXP cinema
Students to work in pairs/groups to find their own examples of the Experimental conventions used in Pulp Fiction (could be set as a homework task)
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Analysis of Pulp Fiction**
Part 1 - introductions - students are provided with a question âIn What Ways Can Your Chosen Film be Considered Experimentalâ?
Key points to include in the introduction to the answer are provided to students/
Explain HIGH ART vs/ LOW ART as a convention of Post modern cinema
Compare a scene from The Wire with a scene from Superfly* - analysis task and feedback ***
This point links to the title card used to open the film
Discussion of âPulp Fiction novelsâ and how *Pulp Fiction the film reflects the post-modern approach
Part II - Experimental Techniques
Comparison between âRoad Warsâ scene from Fast and Furious 7, and the âRoyale With Cheeseâ sequence from PF
Studentâs analyse in groups then feedback
Analysis of Butch and Marcellusâ first meeting - task: analysis and feedback - breakdown of all experimental approaches used the in the scene
Part III - Representation
Students asks to discuss their views on representation of race and gender in PF
feedback
Introduce the view that Tarantinoâs films subvert industry standard approaches to gender and racial representation
Reading task - read section from book to refinforce and develop this argument
students are encouraged to respond to this view and share their own thoughts on Tarantinoâs approach
Examples from PF provided to support student understanding
Assessment - timed assessment. Mark scheme included.
This pack contains TWO lessons.
Lesson 1 - Social Context:
Intro to film and module
Review of past paper questions - these are used to structure the entire session and all students will be able to answer the questions by the end of the session
Filmâs genre and director/stars
Social Context - post war USA
Boomer generation and conflict with teens/youth
Rebellion in the 1950s
Series of key scene analysis tasks covering: social context, mise-en-scene
Lesson 2 - Production Context
What is âProduction Contextâ
Review of past paper questions - these are used to structure the entire session and all students will be able to answer the questions by the end of the session
Classic era Studio system/factory filmmaking
Sound in cinema - analysis and history
Stars
Studio model
Patriarchal nature of the classic era
Male Gaze
Genre
In-depth analysis of Cinematography - 10 mark past paper question - analysis tasks and in-class assessment for this question
This is a comprenhsive and detailed look at the MARXIST view of Education.
All resources are colourful, supported with image and video resources and are engaging for year 12 and 13 students. They offer lots of discussion points.
This pack contains
34-slide PowerPoint presentation (one formatted for for PC and one for Mac)
Student booklet to accompany lessons
Sample response
Mark scheme
Assessment materials
Built in assessment
Content:
Re-cap The Function of education
Overview of Marxist view of education
Two class system
Class conflict
Video examples of class conflict to foster discussion and debate
Marxist view - compare to Functionalist view
The Myth of Meritocracy
Louis Althusser
Ideological State Apparatus
Education reproduces, legitimates inequality
Bowles and Ginit
Producing the next generation of labour power
The Correspondence Principal
Paul Willis - Learning to Labour
Plenary and assessment activities included.
Built in assessment, planning, writing and marking exercises.
This resource pack is comprehensive.
This pack contains a 31 slide PowerPoint covering both INTERNAL and EXTRENAL factors.
Poor Literacy
Globalisation and the Decline of male jobs
Feminisation of Education
Laddish sub-cultures
The Moral Panic about boys
Shortage of Male primary school teachers
Mini-assessment plenary
11-page work booklet
This pack has been designed for the AQA spec.
This pack contains one 31-slide PowerPoint lesson, 1 student booklet, 1 ânotes and analysisâ handout
The lesson covers:
1 - Aesthetics of Panâs Labyrinth
Cold/Blue fascist world
Orange/Red/Fantasy world
Aesthetic styles: Magical Realism
Magical Realism as a mode of exploring horrors of 20th Century fascism.
Analysis =- opening scenes: use of aesthetics to communicate social/political issues related to the film
Analysis of: Ofelia's introduction / Magical realism
Analysis of: The Captain; control, order, blue/black aesthetics
detailed feedback and notes provided for each 'textual analysis' task
Asthetic inspiration: Disturbing Art
Goya's Black Painting / Saturn Devouring his Son
Analysis - The Pale Man - links to Fascism, the Catholic Church, destruction of women and children
Fascist and Catholic imagery in the Pale Man scenes - detailed exploration of key elelemts of mise-en-scene:
Stations of the Cross
Stigmata
Forbidden Fruit
The Holocaust
Assessment task included to consolidate student learning.
**This pack contains a 31 slide PowerPoint addressing a contextual reading of the film. A 14 page student booklet is also included. **
This lesson covers:
**Aesthetics - magical realism, Phantasmagoria, The Grotesque in Del Toroâs work
Aesthetics of PL **- Blue/Black for the real world vs. Orange/red for the fantasy world.
Discussion of how aesthetic choices drive meaning in the film.
Consideration of past exam question (students will work towards answering this question as they go through this lesson with you)
Magical Realism - define and explore.
Magical Realism - a vehicle for exploring the horrors of the 20th century.
Dr. Tom Shippey article re: magical realism and fascism in the 20th century.
Film Analysis
Each scene is explored in DETAIL with the students. There are detailed notes provided (these can be given to students, used by teachers to inform their own reading, or ignored in favour of a student lead approach)
1 - intro to the film
2 - Intro to Ofelia
3 - The Captain
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Using Disturbing Art to reflect a disturbed world **
Discussion of 'disturbing artâ
Introduction to Goya and his Black Paintings
Study of Saturn Devouring his Son - primary aesthetic inspiration for the Pale Man
**Analysis:
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4 - the Dinner scene
5 - the Pale Man - links to fascism, the catholic church, symbolism of the Pale Man as the Captain.
Assessment included.