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 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
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
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 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.