2024 UPDATED MAGAZINE UNIT EDUQAS GCSE: REPRESENTATION IN 'PRIDE' AND 'GQ'

LESSON 8-11 IN UNIT: This lesson concludes the 11 lesson unit (13/14 lessons with assessment time and peer marking in addition). This lesson focuses on:

-STARTER: PUTTING THE STYLE IN LIFESTYLE: On the following slide, I have included an exemplar LV9 reponse on the Raheem Sterling ‘GQ’ cover. To unlock it and use it as an exemplar, all you need to do is fill in the blanks/ some of the key RAIL terms I have obscured.
To help you, I have sprinkled the slide with a set of terms that may or may not, appear in the response. Terms can also be used more than once.

-What is representation/ mediation?
-Ideology
-Selection and combination example with unseen ‘Cosmopolitan’ magazine covers on positive body image.
-A visual breakdown on how and why the media construct media.
-Toxic Masculinity.
-Beauty ideals and Body type
-Masculinist
-Feminist
-Femininity
-Masculinity
-Post-feminism
-Consumerism and it’s relationship with body image
-Hyper-masculinity
-Deconstruct the representation of men in the front cover of ‘Attitude’. Consider the choices the producers have made about how to represent men (Unseen Ru Paul cover).
-Laura Mulvey’s Male Gaze.
-Structured peer marking of assessment and green response task.

-Mastery and step by step breakdown on what each part of the question is and how to attack it in the exam, Students to plan. I have also included a 5/5 mark exemplar for students to model answers from as well as a:

-Model Intro
-Two model PEE paragraphs
-Model Conclusion

-This lesson also includes a bonus retained learning resource should you which to use it as H/W, an additional task or at a later date AND MORE!

IMPORTANT: All resources have been included and separate sheets/ printable power point slides. Videos are embedded with a link in the notes section as well as additional help and tips on how it was delivered to the class.

H/W is a Fortnite-ly H/W sheet. We set fortnightly H/W in Media and we set it on the same day every fortnight and collect in two weeks later on teh same day before we issue the new pack.It can either be printed or digitally set. It follows Dr. NO which is explained at the top of the sheet At the top you have a box:

BOX 1: YEAR GROUP/COHORT
BOX 2: FORTNITE-LY H/W SHEET IN THE SERIES
BOX 3: SET DATE
BOX 4: DUE DATE

NOTE: I am following EDUQAS Teaching Model 1 in my teaching/ SOW and my school is only providing Media Studies at GCSEl, as a three-year Course. Moreover, some of the tasks in lesson and for H/W are dependent upon owning the EDUQAS GCSE Revision Guide.

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