EDUQAS 2024 ONWARDS A2 COMP 1, PARTYGATE: MEDIA LANG & CONTEXTS IN 'THE TIMES' & THE 'DAILY MIRROR'

This 5-lesson period begins the Newspaper unit for 2024 assessment onwards. This lesson concentrates on both the ‘Daily Mirror’ and ‘The Times’ reorting of Partygate on 2nd Feb 2022. This lesson explores:

-What is Media Language?
-Retained Learning task: Deconstruct both set texts covers and apply what you can.
-Deconstruction of set texts with key terms (Discovery learning).
-What was Partygate? Audio/visual exploration.
-Contextual overview of the ‘Daily Mirror’ and ‘The TImes’
-Anti-elitism
-The history of the suffix ‘GATE’ (Watergate)
-Anchorage
-Tabloids
-Broadsheets
-Direct mode of address
-Course of the eye
-Rule of thirds
-You’ve been frameworked (Application of Claude Levi-Strauss)
-Discovery learning task on the front covers and double-page spread (fill in the gap).
-OFFICIAL ADAPTED 2020 QUESTION: Question 2 is based on the print resource: a newspaper front page for The Sun (May 26, 2022). Study the resource carefully before answering the question.

Explore how codes and conventions are used to construct meaning in the Daily Mail front page. [15

**IMPORTANT: This resource includes a Framework H/W pack, printable power point/Word worksheets and notes in the notes section to support and guide teachers/ learning.

Moreover, some of the tasks in lesson and for H/W are dependent upon owning the EDUQAS AS/ A2 Revision Guides/ Mark Dixon’s ‘Media Theory for A Level: The Essential Revision Guide’

Whilst I have embedded a variety of videos, due to blocks on school accounts/ restrictions, if they do not **work, please see the links in the notes section of each slide.

The power point also includes theoretical framework slides at the end of the power point to aid differentiation/ scaffolding etc.

NOTE: I am following EDUQAS Teaching Model 1 in my teaching/ SOW and my school operates a two year A-Level; AS (YEAR 12) AND A2 (YEAR 13). Moreover, some of the tasks in lesson and for H/W are dependent upon owning the EDUQAS AS/ A2 Revision Guides/ Mark Dixon’s ‘Media Theory for A Level: The Essential Revision Guide’

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