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 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 contains:
75-slide PowerPoint lesson that covers:
How to answer 4, 6, 10, 20, 30 mark questions on Paper 1 (AQA Sociology)
Each section contains:
a collection of past paper questions
Guide to structure for each question
Exemplar responses - some broken down in to smaller sections to demonstrate how to apply the structures
Planning and writing tasks for each of the question types
All relevant handouts and additional resources are also included.
Please look at the screenshots attached so you can see what type of content is covered.
This pack contains a 35-page PowerPoint presentation and an accompanying booklet that students can fill in as you teach. The pack also contains a sample answer and a seperate mock-question assessment task.
The PowerPoint covers:
Starter Task - Students view on religion and science; similarities, differences, types of knowledge-claims made by each side
Faith in Science
Manufactured Risks
Cognitive Power
Karl Popper - Open Belief Systems
The Scientific Method
The Principle of Falsification
10 min in-class summative writing task
Robert Merton - CUDOS / Norms
Science as a tool for society
Explaination of how the Protestant Reformation led to the rise of scientific thinking
CUDOS - task - students create their own list of ethics
CUDOS - define and explore the ethical criteria
Closed Belief Systems:
Define and expain
Case Study - Witchcraft Amongst Azande Peoples
Michael Polanyi
- Circularity
- Subsidary Evidence
- Denial of Legitimacy to Rivals
- Paradigms - discussion of Velikovsky
- Paradigm Shifts
- Reading task - Paradigm shifts and Scientific Revolution
Interpretivist View of Science
Students asked to justtify their ‘belief’ in several scientific concepts
Karin Knorr-Cetina - Paradigms
Steve Woolgar and LGM (LIttle Green Men}
Marxist and Feminist View of Science
Definitions
Short reading task
Reflection and consolidation task
Post-Modernist View of Science
Manufactured Risks
Techno-science
Plenary -
Consolidation activities
Sample answer - read and annotate
Planning and write a response to an exam question
This pack contains a 32-slide PowerPoint presentation that covers Quentin Tarantino’s experimental Auteur status [using Pulp Fiction as primary text]
The lesson covers:
Hyper-Real nature of QT’s 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 QT’s ouevre are covered:
Subversion of genre / influences
Post Modern approach / narrative
French New Wave - influences (with scene analysis/comparison task)
‘Subversion of realities of social structures’ aka QT’s 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 QT’s approach to representation
sample essay
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 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 20-slide PowerPoint and accompanying booklet.
The lesson is the first in a series of lessons designed to cover ‘Beliefs in Society’ module of AQA’s 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 ‘Why we are studying Religion’
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 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
AQA SOCIOLOGY – PAPER 3 CRIME & DEVIANCE – GENDER AND CRIME [TWO LESSONS]
This pack contains TWO lessons that cover CRIME & DEVIANCE: GENDER
Each lesson comes with accompanying student booklet that can be filled in during the lesson as you teach
Lesson 1 is a 33-slide PowerPoint that covers:
Starter Task - Gender and Crime
Students given time to discuss and feedback their intial views of Crime and gender
Starting points - general differences between men, women and their realtionship with crime
Gender Patterns in Crime [general statistics]
Do Women Commit Less Crime?
Chivalry test
Evidence for the Chivalry Thesis
Evidence against the Chivalry Thesis
Self-report questionnaire - example and task/activity
Bias Against Women
Feminist Rejection of Chivalry Thesis
Issue developed and discussed with students
Quotes and views of prominent men in positions of power are provided to inspire discussion amongst students
Explaining Female Crime
Sex Role Theory
Patriarchal Control Theory
Control at home
Control at Work
Control in Public
Liberation Theory
Carlen: Class and Gender Deals
The Class Deal
The Gender Deal
Evaluation of arguements covered in this PowerPoint
Lesson 2 is a 24-slide PowerPoint presentation that covers:
Liberation Thesis
Alder [75]
Development of Alder's ideas
Case Study: Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos
Critiques of Liberation Thesis
Women and Violent Crime
Hand and Dodd
Rise of arrests for female violence
‘Widening the net’
Rise of Ladettes
Self Fulfilling Prophecy
Gender and Victimisation
Key statistics: Homicide Victims, Victims of Violence
Why do Women Commit Crime?
Student discussion
Hegemonic Masculinity
Subordinated Masculinities
Messerschmidt:
White middle class man
White working class men
Black working class men
Critiques of Messerschmidt
Winlow: Postmodernity, Masculinity and Crime
Globalisation and DeIndustrialisation
Topic Summary
Consolidation / assessment quiz
Questions and answers provided
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 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 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
“Good Wife Guide”
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 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 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 12-slide PowerPoint presentation and accompanying student booklet
This lesson is designed to be student led and contains a student presentation task - the price of this pack reflects this
Contents:
Starter
Students to discuss attitudes towards crime, punishment, government policy
REALISM vs SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONISM - defined
REALISM - definition expanded upon
RIGHT REALISM
Define, examples and short video summarising Charles Murray's perspective
LEFT REALISM
Define, examples and a short video
Presentation tasks
Each group will produce a poster presentation on one of the following:
RIGHT REALISM – CAUSES OF CRIME
RIGHT REALISM – SOLUTIONS TO CRIME
LEFT REALISM – CAUSES OF CRIME
LEFT REALISM – SOLUTIONS TO CRIME
Your presentation must include KEY CONCEPTS, CLEAR EXPLANATIONS, NAMED RESEARCH and an EVALUATION
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
Film’s 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 ‘Production Context’
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 pack contains a 33 slide PowerPoint presentation and accompanying student booklet that covers the following:
This lesson will show students how to analyse Beasts of the Southern Wild whilst applying theories of spectatorship. The lesson is structured to help students ‘build an A Level response’ to several spectatorship/ideology questions.
Starter:
Key term re-cap (key terms with missing vowels = student must identify the term then define it)
Example questions
Preferred reading - group task
Detailed feedback on PowerPoint
Students to list technical approaches that encourage a preferred reading of the film
Detailed feedback on PowerPoint
IDEOLOGY: - introduce the importance of ideology in driving response
Define and explore: Libeterianism and Anarchism
Tentants of Anarchism explored
Group task: students find examples of anarchistic principles found in the film
feedback
Scene analysis - opening scene (recognition / driving the preferred response
Detailed analysis of intro scenes (including ‘community party’ sequences)
Address The Levee = anti-corporate/capitalistic ideologies
Detailed feedback on PowerPoint
ACTIVE RESPONSE - discussion: What does the Auroch represent?
Negotiated response
Detailed feedback on PowerPoint
FEMA/Hospital scene analysis
Detailed feedback on PowerPoint
Oppositional response
Detailed feedback on PowerPoint
‘Beast It’ scene analysis
Bell Hook’s response to the film
NEW CONTENT: viewing BOTSW from a 2024conservative perspective: oppositional responses in 2024
Detailed feedback on PowerPoint
Assessment: planning time and assessment included [optional use]
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 pack contains the following lessons:
1 - Introduction to Component 3
2 - How to Generate Ideas
3 - How to Develop a Protagonist
4 - People on the Move; cinematography and editing introduction/tutorial
Bonus lessons: Wallace & Gromit - short film analysis
1 - Introduction to Component 3
Run down of Component 3
Introduce the Briefs
Introduce Short Film Analysis
The GunFighter - genre research, genre discussion, analysis of The Gunfighter
Guide: How to analyse short films
2 - How to Generate Ideas
This lesson aims to help students get started. The lesson contains a variety of tasks that should help students generate their own ideas. These include:
Development of ‘Two-sentence’ stories
Development of existing news stories
Development of Genre films
Development of aesthetics; mood board tasks
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3 - How to Develop a Protagonist**
Discussion of techniques used to introduce students’ favourite protagonist
Analysis of Raiders of the Lost Ark opening / Introduction to Indy.
Narration - define and look at different modes of narration
Task - analysis of Patrick Bateman’s introduction
Mise-en-scene task - how to develop a character visually and via mise-en-scene
**Lesson 4 - People on the Move
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A fun and engaging lesson designed to help students learn how to frame a shot, construct a short film, and edit.
Students will have one lesson to plan a 60-second/10 shot film around the concept ‘People on the Move’
One lesson to film
One lesson to edit
Lesson 5- guided detailed analysis of The Wrong Trousers:
Note - this lesson will show students how to edit using Adobe Premier. All lessons are editable so you can modify the resources.
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