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 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 - “Linda Woodhead”
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:
49 slide PowerPoint
2 part student booklet
Essay planning booklet / assessment materials
The PowerPoint has been designed to answer the question: “How far does your chosen films reflect its production context?
[20/40]”
The PP covers:
Explanation of ‘Production context’
Starter: students reflect on ‘classica era’ films they have seen
Introduce exam / essay question for this module
Introductions
Case study: The Classical Era
Studio system / The Big Five & Little Three
Vertical Integration / Studio heads control everything!
Scorsese explains the Studio approach (video and task)
The Key signifers of the classical approach: macro and micro elements
Narrative in the Classical era
Protagonists of the CLassical Era
The Hays Code
Analysis task: Angels with Dirty Faces
Analysis of Vertigo: How does it reflect the production context?
Analysis of Ernie’s:
Narrative
Contunity editing
Star System
Orchestral Score
Shooting on a sound stage
Hays Code & Veritgo
The Studio’s attempt to enforce an alternative ending
Hitchcock’s refusal to attach the ending
Decline of the studios / rise of the auteur director as signified by the ending of Vertigo
PLenary:
Detailed essay planning activities
Assessment: students to write a 20-mark response using their plans.
This pack contains a 56-slide PowerPoint and accompanying 25-page student booklet
The pack also contains a 2-page condensed overview of this topic - great exam planning resource!
This lesson covers:
Starter task - questions design to engage debate and dicussion of the topic
Starter task 2 - video short videos that lay out arguments explaining ethnic differences in crime (Akala, Secret Policeman: Racism in the Police)
Ethnicity and Crime
- Victim surveys
types of data produced / limitations
Self-Report Studies
types of data produced / limitations
- Intra-ethnic crimes
Evaluation of both Self Report / Victim surveys
Ethnicity , Racism and the Justice System
Reading tasks - students read short paragraphs and make notes on issues within the Criminal Justice System:
Policing
Stop and Search
Arrests and Cautions
Prosecution and Trials
Convictions and Sentencing
Prisons
Explaining the differences in Offending
Overview of differneces in ethnic offending
Left Realist view
Relative Deprivation
Marginalisation
Subcultures
Critiques of Left Realist View
Neo-Marxist view:
Paul Willis, Paul Gilroy
Gilory - Crimes of Resistance / criminalisation of certain crimes
Stuart Hall - Policing the Crisis
Failure of British Capitalism in the 1970s - ruling class response and criminalisation of certain groups
MOral Panics
Evaluation and critique of Hall's ideas
More Recent Approaches
Neighbourhoods
Ethnicity and Victimisation
Racial victimisation
Case study: Stephen Lawrence
Case study: Anthony Walker
Detail of statistics that show racial victimisation is a significant issues in Britain
Assessment:
30-mark assessment question
The booklet contains gapped sections, note taking and other activities.
There is space in the handout for the assessment; planning activity, copy of moderators report for this question.
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 contains the lessons, each designed for the Eduqas A Level Film Studies specification.
Lesson 1 - Quentin Tarantino Experimental Auteur
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12745600
Lesson 2 - Experimental Narrative
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12743717
Lesson 3 - Experimental Cinematography
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12746945
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This pack contains a detailed 37-page Power Point presentation, one student handout, one ‘answer booklet’ for mini assessments.
**This is a very detailed and focused session that will enable students to address both context, technical analysis and aesthetics of SkyFall **
The lesson covers:
Re-cap of exam, example questions discussed, special focus: Aesthetics introduction
**- Starter 1 **- Key terms task
Starter 2 - Questions about Bond/Skyfall - students encourage to draw out central themes that will later be linked to aesthetic choices
Feedback
Answering Questions 1 a, b,c,
- Scene analysis
- Student analysis activity
- detailed feedback slides
- sample paragraphs and review of sample
Question D - breakdown of question / key terms
Case study - discussion of Aesthetics using German Expressionism and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Question C - use of colour juxtapositions and how colour is used to convey meaning i.e.
Use of framing to position Bond centrally - detailed scene analysis, clear links to meaning and context
Mirrors/Reflections/Doubles - detailed analysis of the use of Doubles/mirrors in the film - links to the film’s central themes discussed and reinforced.
Assessment:
Content from session is used to plan, write and review answers to the questions posed at the start of the session.
The lesson contains sample paragraphs and an essay plan
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 23-slide PowerPoint and a 27-page student booklet.
The lesson covers:
Starter:
Labelling task - students add ‘labels’ to different groups in society
Feedback and discussion
Introducing: Labelling Theory of C&D
Case study: David Lammy: Hoodies - short video of MP D. Lammy discussing the different labels that are applied to him
Who Gets Labelled?
Cicourel [86] - The Negotiation of Justice / Class Bias
examples of class and ethnic bias are presented and can be discussed
The Negotiation of Justice / Class Bias
Case study - discussion of the Racial Disparity In Sentencing study
Students are presented with the findings of the report and are given time to discuss
Effects of Labelling
Primary Deviance
Secondary Deviance
Jock Young - discussion and critique
Deviance Amplification Spiral
'Mods and Rockers' video and feedback task
Reading/consolidation task
Jon Ronson - "So, You've Been Publically Shamed" video and dicusssion
John Braithwaite
Degenerative Shaming
Reinterogative Shaming
Evaluation of Labelling Theory
Booklet - contains several articles, tasks and assessment tasks.
30-mark exam question included and could be set to as homework / used as the basic for a planning/exam skills session.
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 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 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 ‘documentary’
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 ‘Documentary Modes’
Short research task - students given one ‘mode’ each and then asked to research for 10 mins - feedback to the class
Discussion for each of Nichols’ Modes
Polemic
Expository
Observational
Participatory
Reflexive
Performative
PART II -
John Grieson on what a documentary is
‘Edge of Reality’ - 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 lesson covers Educational achievement and Social Class
The lesson is 38 slides long and covers: (approx one week of lesson time)
This pack contains a complete 36 lesson PowerPoint presentation, accompanying student handout, text book scans needed for task, sample response, mark scheme and an article covering Basil Bernstein’s Restricted/Elaborated Codes
The lesson covers:
Starter - middle class vs. working class achievement
External factors
Cultural Deprivation: language, parents’ education, working class sub-cultures
Speech codes: Restricted/Elaborated
Parents education: parenting style, educational behaviours
Cultural Deprivation - working-class sub-cultures
Bary Sugarman
Myth of Cultural Deprivation
Material Deprivation and Poverty
Cultural Capital / Pierre Bourdieu
Summary
Assessment
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 a 30-slide PowerPoint presentation and accompanying 21-page student-booklet that covers the following:
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Starter task**
Following a short reading task, student to answer questions about The Conventions of International Law
Crime and Globalisation:
re-cap 'Globalisaiton'
'How May Globalisation Change Crime'? task
Castells 'forms of crime':
Arms trafficking
Sex Tourism
Trafficking in Body Parts
Cyber Crimes
Green Crimes
The Drug Trade
international Tourism
Smuggling
Crime - supply and demand led: third world nations and the appeal of crime
Risk Consciousness
Ian Taylor and Left Realism
Gobalisation changes patterns of crime
'Case Study: Bangladesh Factory Collapse [2013]
Reading and comprehension task:
Cimes of Globalisation, Rothe & Friedrichs
Patterns of Criminal Organisation
Winlow: Bouncers; Globalisation and de-industrialisation
Hobbs and Dunnigham: GLOCAL systems
Glenny: McMafia
Case study: Oligarchs
(reading, video task)
Green Crime
Examples of Green Crime - task
Traditional Criminology
Green Criminology
Zemiology
TWO Views of Harms
Anthropocentric view
Ecocentric view
Green Crimes
Primary Green Crimes
Secondary Green Crimes
Evaluation of Green Crimes
This pack contains a 20 slide PowerPoint and an accompanying 14-page handout/booklet that students complete during the lesson and for consolidation
The lesson covers: IDEOLOGIES - Paper 2 - Beliefs in Society
Starter:
- Define ‘ideology’
-What is the FUNCTION of IDEOLOGIES in society?
- How do IDEOLOGIES BENEFIT people/society?
- How do IDEOLOGIES HARM people/society?
Four functions of Ideology
Problems presented by Ideologies
Re-cap Marxism
Ideology and Marx
Ruiling class ideology
Reinforces Class Conscioiusness
Gramsci -
- Hegemony
Dual Consciousness
Organic Intellectuals
Nationalism
Define the term, examples included
Claims of nationalism
Reading and summative task
KARL MANNHEIM: IDEOLOGY & UTOPIA
PARTIAL or ONE-SIDED WORLDVIEWS
ideological Thought vs Utopian Thought
Free Flowing Intelligencia
Total World View
Feminism and Ideology
Reading and summative task
Summary Slide
Assessment is included in the booklet
Sample answer/essay included in the booklet
Final consolidation and mind-mapping activities also included in the booklet
This pack contains one 20-slide PowerPoint presentation, one booklet (to be completed by students; the booklet also contains several consolidation activities) and a starter task
Lesson:
Starter/Re-cap/revisiting activity - definitions of religion
Age
Gender
Class
Ethnicity
For each of the four groups listed above there are 2-3 slides for each.
The slides cover key arguments, contain graphs and statistics to support points, key terms are highlighted and theorists are cited.
Consolidation activity - students to read one of four articles that cover each of the groups studied in the lesson. Each student annotated, draws out quotes and key arguments and then contributes to a group ‘wiki’ page. The ‘wiki’ page can be created in Teams, or it can be created on paper, shared with the teacher and then scanned in to one comprehensive revision resource.
This pack contains TWO Lesson
Lesson1 - Religious Organisation and NRMs - accompanied by a 28 page booklet
Lesson 2 - The Growth of NRMs - just the PowerPoint
Lesson 2 - The Growth of NRMs is FREE - the lesson is an older version and does not have a booklet. However, the content is great and the lesson is of a high standard.
**Lesson 1 covers:
Starter / session 1 -
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Students are given an New Religious Movement - they then are to work in small groups to research the NRM in preparation for class presentations. - you are free to adapt and use this task as you see fit.
RELIGIOUS ORGANISATIONS
ERNST TROELTSCH ‘Sects and Churches’
Richard Neibuhr Denominations and Cults
Each type of religious organisation is then explored in more detail:
Sects
Case study: The People’s Temple
Denominations
Case study data included in PP
Cults
NRMS / New Religious Movements
World Rejecting
World Accomidating
World Affirming
Evaluation of Wallis’ perspective
Stark and Bainbrigde- Cults and Sects
Definitions provided for CULT / Sect, and examples
Audience Cults
Client Cults
Cultic Movements - Scientology mini-case study
Assessment:
The lesson / booklet contain several consolidation and revision activities.
There is a 10-mark assessment attached to this PowerPoint/content that teachers can set as an in-class or homework assignment.
Lesson 2 - Growth of NRMS covers:
Margninality
Relative Deprivation
Social Change
Self-identity
The Dynamics of NRMS / How they Grow
The Protestant effect
Death of the leader
Stark / Bainbridge - The Sectarian Cycle
Schism
Initial Fervour
Denominatioanlism
Establishment
Further Schism
Conversionist Sect
Adventist Sect
Globalisation
post-Modernity
individuals
Consumerism
Heelas - New Age & Modernity
source of Identity
Sense of certainty in a time of anomie
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 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
TES – Beliefs pack
This pack contains a complete scheme of learning for the AQA – Sociology Paper 2 module: Beliefs in Society.
The pack contains twelve [12] complete lessons – each lesson is fully animated, full of tasks, activities, assessment materials, assessment tasks and consolidation activities. All lessons are accompanied by a handout/booklet that students can use during the teaching of the sessions. Documentary recommendations are included, as well as links to further reading and suggested materials for engaging students outside of the classroom.
The sub-topics covered are:
1 – Definitions of Religion - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12774527
2 – Feminist View of Religion https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/feminist-view-of-religion-sociology-12701674
3 – Functionalist View of Religion - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12774533
4 – Marxist View of Religion https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-marxist-perspective-of-religion-12739724
5 – Social Change and the Conservative View[https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/religion-force-for-change-or-conservative-force-12701703
6 – Religious Organisations and New Religious Movements - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12858285
7 – Secularisation -https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12858297
8 – Alternatives to Secularisation https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/aqa-sociology-alternatives-to-secularisation-full-lesson-12766222
9 – Religion and Social Groups https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/aqa-sociology-religion-and-social-groups-12769375
10 – Science as a Belief System https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/aqa-sociology-paper-2-religion-as-a-belief-system-12773915
11 – Religion in a Global Context https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12858303
12 – Religion and Ideology https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/aqa-sociology-religion-and-ideology-12774148