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 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.
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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 contains one 31-slide PowerPoint lesson, 1 student booklet, 1 ‘notes and analysis’ handout
The lesson covers:
1 - Aesthetics of Pan’s 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 Toro’s 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 art’
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.
This pack contains THREE lessons. A break down of each session is listed below:
(in case you re returnign to this listing: it used tolist FOUR lessons - this was an error by myself that has been corrected)
All three lessons are fully animated, thoughtfully designed, engaging, and come with student booklets
The pack also includes a ‘screening notes’ handout - teacher’s screening notes whilst watching the film with students.
**Lesson 1- Introduction to Mogul Mowgli / production context
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Bio of director Basam Tariq
Bio of writer/star Riz Ahmed
Ted Talk from Tariz " The Beauty & Diversity of Muslim Life"
Defining terms: MOGUL / MOWGLI
Produciton context slides - covers studios involved, intent of filmmakers, support from the UK Muslim Film organisation
Research task: research Ahmed and Tariq’s inspiration for the film / their reasons for creating the film / their perspectives of representaiton of ethnic minorities in cinema.
Lesson 2- Pre-Screning / Context / Post Colonial Theory
*** Context covered**:
History of Partition
British Empire’s role in India
Consequence of Partition (At the time and modern)
Ghost Trains - phenonemon associated with Partition, and one that is central to the narrative of MM.
Trauma
Generational Trauma
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POst-Colonial Film Theory; Tony Gilroy**
Task: Indiana Jones analysis task - representation of formerly colonised groups in Western media
Overview of Post Colonial Theory (See screenshots for level of detail in slides)
Albonic Nostaliga vs. Post-Colonial Britain
‘Racial Otherness’
Ideological representation of Muslim people / Muslim way of life in cinema:
Task - analysis and student reflection
‘The Muslim Other’
Examples of ‘othering’ across different British media
Great interview of Riz Ahmed reacting to the othering of Muslim peoples
Lesson 3 - Post Screening response
This powerpoint includes all former questions for this module (up to 2022)
A history of TOBA-TEK-SINGH
Several guided tasks and activities that are designed to draw out student understanding of both NARRATIVE & IDEOLOIGICAL messaging within Mogul Mowgli.
Assessment included in this lesson.
This PowerPoint addresses representation of ethnicity and race in Blade Runner (Scott, 1982).
The lesson covers:
Whiteness in Blade Runner
Techno-fascism
Replicants - ubermensch, and analogue for US slave trade
Asian culture and characters - Use of Asian cultural symbols in the city
othernesses
Other as exotic
Representation of Latino/hispanic characters
Essay structure/note taking handout
**This pack contains 7 lessons designed for AQA’s English Language Paper 1 **
Each lesson comes with:
- PowerPoint presentation
- Tasks handout
- Digital copies of the text that is used in the session
Each lesson follows the same format, which is outlined below:
Starter Task: definitions and synonyms (students to define words, find synonyms and then write one sentence using as many of their new words as they can)
SP&G focus: short task based around ONE SP&G area:
- Lesson 1- Using Commas
- Lesson 2 - Using apostrophes
- Lesson 3 - Using capital letters
- Lesson 4 - Parts of Speech: nouns and prepositions
- Lesson 5 - Parts of Speech: verbs and pronouns
- Lesson 6 - Parts of Speech: positioning the reader
- Lesson 7- Parts of Speech: homophones
Each SP&G focus section contains a video, task and consolidation activity
Paper 1 - question 1 practice
The sample tests covered in these 7 lessons are:
The Thirty Nine Steps by John Buchan
The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Strange Case of Mr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
Paper 1 - question 2 practice - analysis
- The question is discussed and then a series of tasks are available. How to answer the question, how to structure responses, how to break down the text, task, assessment.
Paper 1 - question 3 practice
The question is discussed and then a series of tasks are available. How to answer the question, how to structure responses, how to break down the text, task, assessment.
Paper 1 - question 4 practice
The question is discussed and then a series of tasks are available. How to answer the question, how to structure responses, how to break down the text, task, assessment.
Plenary Tasks -
reflection on the session. Target setting for next session.
This pack contains the 7 lessons covering AQA’s English Language GCSE Paper 1, Section B.
Each lesson in this pack follows the same structure and contains:
Power-Point lesson
Handouts for relevant sessions.
Each lesson follows the following structure and addressed the following skills/approaches:
Starter task
-definitions of 5 words, students find synonyms, then they write a sentence using as many of their new words as they can
SP&G focus:
Lesson 1- Sentence openers
Lesson 2 - Speech Marks
Lesson 3 - Using Dashes
Lesson 4 - similes and Metaphors
Lesson 5 - Adjectives & Adverbs
Lesson 6 - Irregular Verbs
Lesson 7 -
Question 5 - How to understand, prepare for and answer the question
Part 1 -What the exam will look like: a breakdown of what the exam question will look like.
Part 2 - planning - students are given an image then various tasks to help them plan their narrative/descriptive writing tasks.
Part 3 - writing
Part 4 - self review and submission.
Plenary - reflection and target setting
This pack contains two Powerpoint presentations:
1 - 39 Slide PowerPoint that covers the Functionalist View of Religion AND ‘Civil Religion’
2 - 5 slide PowerPoint that covers evaluation of the Functionalist view
The lessons are accompanied with detailed handouts that students complete during the sessions
The lessons cover:
Starter task - symbols and meaning
Introduce key theorists
Define: Value Consensus, Order, Solidarity
Define and introduce: The Sacred, The Profaine
Short reading and summative task to consolidation knowledge and understanding of The Sacred, The Profaine
Totemism - case study: Arunta Clan
What is a ‘Totem’
Totemism and Clans
Task - students to create their own clans, rules and totems that symbolise the values of the clan
Reading / consolidation task
The Collective Consciousness
Critiques of Durkheim’s view point
Malinowski
Social Solidarity - explored and expanded upon
Trobriand Islanders of the Western Pacific case study
‘God of the Gaps’
Religion ‘At a time of life crisis’
Parsons
- Independent Reading task
- Positive functions of religion
Robert Bellah - Civil Religion
Civil Religion in the USA
Civil Religion in the UK
Gapped handout- task
Assessment - 10 mark assessment task
This pack contains:
A 45-slide PowerPoint presentation
This lesson covers:
Re-cap of Post Modern theory
Definition, Grand Narratives and institutional power
Starter Task - students discuss and share their experiences with religion in 21st century
Two slides discussing the over-arching criticism of Secularisation Theory
Religious Market Theory & Theories of Late Modernity and Post-Modernism
-Grace Davie: From Obligation to Consumption - defined and discussed, examples provided to enhance understaning
Believing without Belonging
Vicarious Religion & The Spiritual Health Service
Critics of Davie: Steve Bruce, Voas and Crocket, Abby Day
Cultural Amnesia & Spiritual Shopping
Danielle Hervieu-Leger: Pilgrims vs. Converts
Post Modern Religion
Globalisation and its impact on religion
Desembedded religion
Religion online and Online Religion - reading, note taking and discussion task
Religious Consumerism & The Sphere of Consumption
Religious Consumerism
Religious Disenchantment
Reading and assessment task: New Age Religions
Self-Religion and Sheilaism - video resource, reading task
Task: students given tenants of major religions as well as tenants of some global religions. Students use their phones and this data to create their own ‘commandments’
Religious Market Theory
Are humans inherently religious?
Religion as a Compensator
American Vs. Europe
Supply Led Religion
Televagelism explored
Critiques of Religious Market Theory: Bruce, Norris and Inglehart, Beckford
Existential Security Theory
People from poorer societies/nations are much more likely to be religious that people from richer societies/nations. Comparison made between Burundi (poorest nation on Earth) and Germany (one of the wealthiest)
Norris and Inglehart: Existential Security
Poor societies vs rich societies
Case Study: Uruguay
Booklet
The booklet is 28 pages long
The book contains a combination of note taking, gapped sections, tasks
A two-page linear, bulletpointed list of key facts, dates and developments that will help students understand the process of seculariation and rise of alternative religions
Several consolidation activities aimed to help learners of all learning styles.
This pack contains one 18-slide lesson and one handout that cover the following:
Starter - Dissecting Marx’s ‘Opium of the people’ quote
Religion as an Ideological State Apparatus
Religion and class / prosperity Theology
Task - using quotes from major religions, students are to explain their use and link them to the Marxist perspective
Spiritual Gin / Lenin
Alienation
Critiques of the Marxist perspective of Religion
Classical vs Neo Marxist perspective
Brief overview of Ernst Bloch and Dual Characteristics
Brief overview of Otto Maduro & Religion as a Revolutionary Force
This pack contains a 24 question quiz that tests student knowledge of DEMOGRAPHY.
The quiz is scored out of 37 points and is perfect for use as a starter task and/or plenary task.
Included:
QUIZ
Answer sheet
This pack contains a 16-slide Power-Point that introduces Post-Modernism and Social Action theories, 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:
Starter: Re-cap Functionalism, Marxism & Feminism
Revisiting Structural Theories - re-cap
Define: Social Action Theory - discussed in relation to Structural approaches
Social Action Theory
Intro to Post Modernism
Grand-Narratives - Social Institutions give legitimacy
Status Quo/Norms - how they are reinforced and challenged.
Plenary Task
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 FUNCATIONALISM, 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:
Introduction to Social Institutions
What is a ‘theory’?
Definition of ‘structural theories’
Definition of Conflict and Consensus theories
Functionalism
definition - Structural/Consensus theory
Social Cohesion
Social Control
The Organic Analogy
Tasks based around the above topics
Consolidation quiz with answers provided.
There are TWO copies of the lesson - one formatted for MAC and one formatted for PC.
This lesson is an introduction to the Nature Vs. Nurture debate and has been designed for the AQA specification.
The lessons covers:
Gender Socialisation starter quiz
**Starter tasks **- questions about nature/nuture. This is designed to foster debate and talking point before we explore the debate in more detail
What are genes?
Defining: Nature/Nurture
Student task to expand upon understanding
Arguments in favour of nature: Darwin, Watson
Sociological evidence: Feral Children
Documentary / video links included - tasks to follow screening of short documentary about feral children [Oxana Malaya]
Genetic Evidence: separated twins: The Jim Twins
Nature/Nurture ‘evidence’ task
Essay question - includes question, item and an essay plan.
These English G.C.S.E. resources have been designed for the AQA speciation.
This PAPER 1 SECTION A session follows this format:
1 – Starter tasks: VOCAB expansion: learning, defining, and finding synonyms for new words
2 – SPAG Focus:COMMAS
3 – Text: The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
4 – Questions 1,2,3 and 4 are broken down and simplified.
5 – The text is explored, analysed, evaluated using each of the four questions
6- Assessment activities
7 – Plenary activities
Each lesson is accompanied by a work-booklet and additional handouts for the SPAG activities.
These English G.C.S.E. resources have been designed for the AQA speciation.
This PAPER 1 SECTION B session follows this format:
1 – Starter tasks: VOCAB expansion: learning, defining, and finding synonyms for new words
2 – SPAG Focus: adjectives and adverbs
3 –** Questions 5-** break down and discussion
4 – Exam focus activities: Planning a response (5 mini activities using stimulus materials)
5 – Exam technique: Flashbacks
6 – Task/assessment activities: Story writing / descriptions
7 – Plenary activities: vocab test
Each lesson is accompanied by a work-booklet and additional handouts for the SPAG activities.
These English G.C.S.E. resources have been designed for the AQA speciation.
This PAPER 1 SECTION B session follows this format:
1 – Starter tasks: VOCAB expansion: learning, defining, and finding synonyms for new words
2 – SPAG Focus: Using question marks
4 – Questions 5- break down and discussion
5 – Exam focus activities: Planning a response (5 mini activities using stimulus materials)
7 – Task/assessment activities: Story writing / descriptions
8 – Plenary activities: vocab test
Each lesson is accompanied by a work-booklet and additional handouts for the SPAG activities.
This contains the lessons, each designed for the Eduqas A Level Film Studies specification.
Lesson 1 - Quentin Tarantino Experimental Auteur
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Lesson 2 - Experimental Narrative
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Lesson 3 - Experimental Cinematography
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**This pack is designed for the Eduqas Film A Level, but it suitable for any one teaching/studying Non-Linear narratives/Pulp Fiction and narrative.
The pack contains a 26-slide PowerPoint presentation that covers:
Pulp Fiction: Experimental Narrativ**e [Specialist Study Area]
starter - recap key narrative terms
intro discussion: how does Pulp Fiction subvert traditional approaches to narrative?
Section 1 - Goal Orientated Narratives - study of how PF’s approach to goal orientation is experimental
Section 2 - Narrative resolutions - study of how PF’s approach to narrative resolution is experimental
Section 3 - Binary Oppositions - study of how PF’s approach to binary oppostions is experimental
Dialogue - how dialgue is used in place of cause and effect
Themes - how themes drive the narrative and give coherence
Final scene - analysis
Plenary activities
Assessement activities - essay planning and writing
Additional resources:
11-page gapped handout for students to complete in the lesson
A3 sized print out of film’s non-linear structure
Breakdown of the three chapters and how themes are used
**This pack contains one 23-slide PowerPoint that teaches how to answer this question using Pulp Fiction as the chosen film.
One 12-page booklet - note taking, fill in the gaps, analysis, detailed slides and essay planning document. **
Explore how far cinematography contributes to the experimental nature of your chosen film or films. [20]
every analysis task comes with multiple slides breaking down the scenes and provide guidane for essay writing
Lesson covers:
Starter - Re-cap of conventional/mainstream American cinema approach to camera
Short Martin Scorsese/ history of the Hollywood style - documentary extract and tasks
Explanation of the ‘formal’ approach to cinematography - with examples
Discussion of Tarantino’s most common ‘experimental’ uses of camera - with examples from the film
How to write an introduction to the question - writing task
Part 1 - 'using the camera to restrict information and create active spectators.
The ‘Trunk shot’
Part 2 - Subversion of conventional approach / experimenting with scene construction
Analysis of scene from Fast and Furious 7 -
Comparative analysis of the ‘Marcellus meets Butch’ scene from the film
Part 3 - French New Wave: camera in service of the characters, not narrative
Analysis - scene from Breathless
Analysis - comparison to final scene from the film
Detailed visual breakdown of the final sequence
Plenary/assessment:
Read exemplar essay
Review and re-write activity
optional research task
Essay planning activity [with booklet]
Mark scheme
This pack of resources contains FOUR lessons that cover the following aspects of the Component 1 Section C module:
One lesson covering: Introduction to Mainstream and Indie cinema (production context)
Three lessons covering:
Specialist writing 1 - Finding the Frame
Specialist writing 2 - What Makes a Film Independent?
Specialist Writing 3 - Representation of Masculinity
Each lesson has accompanying hand-outs; one for detailed note taking, a second to complete a timed-assessment.
The lessons offer a comprehensive look at the topics under discussion, essay planning sections, detailed break-down of each piece of ‘Specialist Writing’.