COMPONENT 1, SECTION A EDUQAS GCSE : NEWSPAPERS PARTYGATE 2024 ONWARDS (REPRESENTATION AND CONTEXTS)

Lesson 5-9: This FIVE lesson resource continues a unit of 18 lessons on ‘The Sun’ and ‘The Guardian’ newspapers and their coverage of Partygate (NEW 2024 ONWARDS SET TEXTS). This lesson focuses on Representation and contexts and covers:

-Media Language starter regarding construction of Media Language during the Covid-19 lockdown.
-Assessing the 5 contexts (CHEPS).
-Representation and mediation.
-Case studies of mediation during lockdown and Brexit.
-Assessment/ quiz on representational key terms.
-Application and help slide on Hall’s Reception theory.
-Hard v Soft news.
-Page 3 and it’s representation of women. Also a case study on Theresa May and how female politicians are constructed in the media.
-Political leanings/ ideologies of ‘The Sun’ and ‘The Guardian’.
-The 4th and 5th Estate.
-Partisan journalism
-Objective journalism
-Fake news/ MEDIA FLAT-PACK on influencers
-Active learning resource where students place a variety of newspapers on the political spectrum.
-Ideological state apparatus.

Exam exemplar questions: Representation (NOTE: AS THIS HAS NOT YET BEEN ASSESSED ON AN EXAM, THIS IS A SET OF QUESTIONS WRITTEN BY ME/ SUPPORT MATERIALS LIMITED TO WHAT I HAVE USED AND/OR CREATED)

1. (a) Explain how political context affects newspapers. Refer to the front page of The Guardian newspaper (18th January 2022) to support your points. [5]

(b) Compare the representation of issues in The Guardian front page and the Daily Mail (26th January 2022) front page. [25]
In your answer, you must consider:

• how representations convey particular viewpoints and messages
• how far the representation of issues is similar in the two front pages
• how far the representation of issues is different in the two front pages.

MPORTANT: This resource includes notes at the bottom of select power point slides to aid teachers, links, resource sheets and printable resource slides and a H/W task.

NOTE: I am following EDUQAS Teaching Model 1 in my teaching/ SOW. Each lesson is laid out as I teach my own class but I have added notes at the bottom of some of the slides e.g. on the Media Teaser, to aide teachers. All lessons are developed with differentiation, assessment/challenge as well as engagement entrenched heavily within all my resources. Moreover, constant reference is made throughout to the selected Examiner Media.

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