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.
I produce video resources here:
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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
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 complete scheme of lessons for the AQA Paper 3 - Crime and Deviance module.
review of my resources:
"Great, core content presented in an engaging manner. I hope you are planning to add the rest of the crime module. Thanks."
you can read the content of each lesson and view screenshots of all lessons by clicking on the relevant links below:
The pack contains the following lessons, student booklets and additional resources
If you have any additional questions, please email me at:
matthew.oregan@hughbaird.ac.uk
Lesson 1- Introduction to Crime and Deviance: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12790066
Lesson2 - The Functionalist view of Crime and Deviance: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/aqa-sociology-functionalist-view-of-crime-and-deviance-12785758
Lesson 3 - Subcultureal theories of Crime and Deviance https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12858247
Lesson 4 - Conflict Theories of Crime and Deviance https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12790478
Lesson 5 - Realist Theories of Crime and Deviance - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12790783
Lesson 6 - Labelling Theories of Crime and Deviance: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12795795
Lesson 7 - Crime and The Media, Moral Panics https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12807680
Lesson 8 & 9 - Crime and Gender - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12808582
Lesson 10 - Crime: Globalisation & Green Crimes https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12847020
Lesson 11 - Human Rights and State Crime https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12847756
Lesson 12 - Crime Prevention, Control and Punishment - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12857652
**Each topic is called a ‘lesson’ e.g. Lesson 2 - Functionalist View of Crime - however, the PowerPoint are not designed to be taught in one session. Some will take an entire weeks worth of lesson time, others less. ** The resources here cover the entire Crime and Deviance module and will take a complete term to teach
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
**
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
**
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 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 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 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 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 PowerPoint presentation and accompanying booklet.
The lesson covers:
Task / in-class debate: Is religion a force for change, or a conservative force?
Task - re-cap of Functionalist, Marxist and Feminist view of religion
Religion as a force for change:
Max Weber and Calvinism
Predestination
Asceticism
Hinduism
Confucianism
Evaluation of Weber’s perspective
Consolidation Task - answer writing
Task: Research for presentation
The accompanying booklet contains additional content (essays, cartoons and additional consolidation activities)
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 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] – 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 ‘Myth of Media Violence’ 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 ‘Moral Panics’ 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: https://www.tes.com/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 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 the following:
Observations complete lesson covers:
Observation starter task
Two short ‘observations’ video tasks
Discussion re: questionnaires & Interviews vs. Observations
Types of Observations (each explored individually)
Covert/Overt
Non-Participant
Participant
Strengths of observations
Limitations of observations
Case Study - Football Hooligans - documentary available on Youtube
Tasks for completion following documentary screening
Plenary - observation research task - students to research and present a case-study based on one of four existing sociological studies.
Handout, documentary links and all resources are included.
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: Using apostrophes
3 – Text: Robert Galbraith, The Cuckoo’s Calling
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 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
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 20-slide PowerPoint presentation, a booklet students fill in and complete during the lesson
The lesson covers:
A Starter Task - students complete a short key term starter task - vowels have been removed, students must identify the word AND provide a definition
‘What is genre?’ recap
Types of Musicals
-Task - compare a sequence from Yankee Doodle Dandy to a sequence from The Greatest Showman
Analysis and feedback tasks
Non-Integrated vs. Integrated musicals
Richard Dyer = Entertainment as Utopia
Musicals Reflect ‘Social Tenions’ and 'Utopian Solutions
PLENARY
Grease Case study - application of all theory that has been taught in the lesson
EXT task - analysis of *La La Land’s opening sequence
This pack contains a 26 slide PowerPoint presentation addressing IDEOLOGY and meaning in J Glazer’s Under the Skin
The pack also contains a student handout, a complete (assessed) response, essay plan, additional reading materials.
I have also attached a YouTube link to a video version of this lesson students can use to consolidate their knowledge and understanding.
This lesson is ideal for anyone teaching UTS as part of the EDUQAS AL Film: Component 1 - Section C: British cinema, module.
This lesson contains a lot of content, is primarily focused on linking theory/ideology with the textual elements of the film.
The lesson covers:
Starter - re-cap sci-fi genre conventions
Introduce exam question
Starter 2 - 'How are binary oppositions used in the film Under the Skin?
Feedback - discussion of the techniques filmmakers can use to construct women on screen.
1 - Opening scene analysis - watch scene - students to analyse the opening
Detailed feedback on slides
2 - The ‘White Room’ scene -students to analyse the scene
Detailed notes on slides
3 - The ‘MALL and VAN scenes’ - adoption of gender signifiers - students to analyse the opening
Detailed notes on slides
4 - Alien in the Van / Stalking of men scene - students to analyse the scene
Detailed notes on slides
5 - The ‘disfigured man’ scene - students to analyse the scene
Detailed notes on slides
6 - Ending - chase in the woods/death of the Alien - students to analyse the scene
Detailed notes on slides