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 64-slide PowerPoint presentation and 40 page student booklet
The lesson offers comprehensive coverage of CONFLICT THEORIES OF CRIME & DEVIANCE and contains the following:
Starter
Re-cap of Marxism and the Marxist Structure
The Traditional Marxist Perspective of Crime and Deviance
Marxist view of Crime
Working Class Crime
types of crimes committed by the WC
Poverty, Utilitarian Crimes, Alienation
Crimes of the middle-class
Corporate Crimes
White Collar Crimes
*** Elite Deviance**
*** White Collar vs Corporate Crimes**
Laws Reflect the needs/values of the Ruling Classes
Ideological Functions of the Law
Corporate Law - case study: 2007 Corporate Homicide Case
Mid-lesson plenary/summary task - 8 questions designed to test students learning so far
**Law Enforcement and Punishment **
Benefits Street - viewing and note taking task
Evaluation of the Marxist View of Crime
**Mid-lesson Consildation Activities: **
Mind-mapping and articles to be read/annotated
**Neo-Marxist View of Crime **
Fully Social Theory of Deviance
Stuart Hall - Neo-Marxist Views of Crime
Moral Panics - tasks, examples and activities
New Left Realism
Jack Young
Flaws in this perspective
Crimes of the Powerful
Reiman & Leighton; The Rich Get Richer and The Poor Get Prison
What is White Collar Crime?
Occupational Crimes
Corporate Crimes
The scale and types of Corporate Crime
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Abuse of Trust **
Harold Shipman case study - tasks
Case Study: Abuse of trust by the Police
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Invisibility of Corporate Crimes**
Reading task / Q*A
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Explanation of Corporate Crimes**
Strain Theory summary
Differential Association summary
Labelling Theory summary
Marxism summary
Summary of Conflict Theory
The booklet is to be filled in by students in the lesson. It contains all of the other resources needed i.e. articles, images, spaces to complete tasks, etc.
The PowerPoint is comprehensive but is also broken up in to smaller, managable sections. You are free to chop the PowerPoint up in to several smaller sessions and share with learners if that would suit your approach.
This pack contains a 29-slide PowerPoint presentation and an accompanying student work booklet.
The lesson covers:
PART I:
Starter Task - Brief re-cap of Functionalism
[The re-cap is a 12 - slide summary of the FUNCTIONALIST perspective. This can be cut down, removed of edited to suit your learners needs]
Definitions: Socialisation and Social Control
Is Crime Inevitable? - Crime as inevitable and universalistic
Anomie
The Positive Functions of Crime
Boundary Maintainance
Dramatisation of Evil and ‘folk devils’
Task
Adaptations and Change
Kingsley Davis - Crime as a ‘safety valve’
Bed Polsky - channeling of sexual desires
Albert Cohen
Deviance as a warning sign’
Crime and Deviance - creates jobs in society
Management and regulation of deviancy
Evaluation and Critique of the points/perspectives covered above
Series of consolidation tasks - mind maps, essay and comprehension questions, writing tasks, key terms.
PART II:
Merton’s ‘Strain Theory’
Define: Strain Theory
Structural factors leading to crime
Cultural factors leading to crime
Case study: American Dream/Wall St. crash
Five type of Anomie:
Conformity, Innovation, Ritualism, Retreatism, Rebellion
Evaluation and Critique of ‘Strain Theory’ studied in this session
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 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 addresses the PRODUCTION CONTEXT of Alien, and it contains: TWO POWERPOINT lessons:
**POWERPOINT 1 - New Hollywood (31 slides)
POWERPOINT 2 - EMERGENCE OF THE BLOCKBUSTER (16 slides)
Both PowerPoint are accompanied by a detailed student booklet
Both PowerPoints are full of images, are animated and have been designed with student engagement in mind (see screenshots for examples)
NEW HOLLYWOOD PowerPoint:**
Starter - Vertigo production context starter task (optional)
KEY TERMS defined
Q&A - Why did the studio system fail? - test student knowledge
NEW World = New Hollywood - history of post-war USA, studios failed to resonate with the public
NEW HOLLYWOOD
How did America change in the 50s/60s?
Counterculture
Studio productions in the 60s - films that failed to resonate with the boomer generation
Rise of New Hollywood
Easy Rider - analysis and feedback task
[detailed notes included on slides]
NARRATIVE CONVENTIONS of New Hollywood
What is an ANTI HERO?
THEMEATIC & STYLISTIC conventions of New Hollywood
Bonnie and Clyde: case study -analysis tasks
[detailed notes included on slides]
CONSOLIDATION:
Short writing task
Suggested: further reading/viewing for students
POWERPOINT 2 - Blockbuster era
STARTER task: re-cap the ways Alien DOES and DOES NOT reflect the New Hollywood of filmmaking
RE=CAP@ contextual issues addressed by Alien
THE RISE OF THE BLOCKBUSTER
Student discussion: view, opinion and thoughts on ‘80s’ cinema
Conventions of the Blockbuster task: watch several trailers; students to identify and discuss conventions of the BLOCKBUSTER
[detailed noted provided]
HIGH CONCEPT cinema
Alien: A film between production modes:
Assessment: detailed essay planning activity
Assessment: Question and essay plan provided
This pack contains a 16-slide Power-Point that introduces MARXISM, 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:
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Definition of Marxism
Marxism as a Conflict/Structural Theory
How Marxism differs from Functionalism
Tasks that explore the characteristics of the Proletariat / Bourgeois
Discussion of the Super-structure
Plenary/Consoldiation quiz - handout and responses provided
There are TWO copies of the lesson - one formatted for MAC and one formatted for PC.
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 pack contains ONE PowerPoint presentation and one student booklet
This session is largely students led, hence the price
The PowerPoint covers:
Starter: students discuss their thoughts on the soundtrack/use of sound in Alien [feedback and class discussion]
KEY TERMS: task/re-cap
Students to make list of ajdectives that describe the sound
Short reading activity: define the sound of alien as ‘dread’
Anlaysis scene 1 - The Nostromo {interoir and exterior]
screen extracts
student group anlaysis
class feedback and note taking
Anlaysis scene 2 - TheFace Hugger
screen extracts
student group anlaysis
class feedback and note taking
Anlaysis scene 3 - The Death of Brett
screen extracts
student group anlaysis
class feedback and note taking
Anlaysis scene 4 -Ripley vs. Alien (final escape/chaotic sound)
screen extracts
student group anlaysis
class feedback and note taking
Consolidation:
Reading (two detailed analyses for students to review/annotate)
Guided essay planning activity
Optional assessment 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
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 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 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 59-slide PowerPoitnt presentation and accompanying student booklet
This PowerPoint will take approx 3 lessons / hours and ends with an in class, timed assessment activity
The lessons covers:
Starter - How do students interpret the term ‘experimental’ cinema? - discussion and feedback
Introduce Pulp Fiction as our focus text, reinforce student areas, etc
Show past paper questions - student read questions - Q&A session to address student’s initial concerns
Read and evaluate the ‘Indicative Content’ provided by EDUQAS
Define: Mainstream cinema
Task - students to outline conventions of ‘mainstream’ cinema
Define: Experimental Cinema
Discussion task after definition provided
Students discuss the ways a filmmaker can experiment with film form, approach to ideology and representation
Conventions of Experimental / Post-modern cinema
Intertextuality
Self-referential
Fragmentation of Time and Space
Homage
Pastiche
Parody
Hyper-reality
Non-sequitors
Consoidation task - screen fist 5 minutes from Une Chien Andalou (this can obviously be swapped out for your own examples/texts)
Part II - Starter - re-cap conventions of EXP cinema
Students to work in pairs/groups to find their own examples of the Experimental conventions used in Pulp Fiction (could be set as a homework task)
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Analysis of Pulp Fiction**
Part 1 - introductions - students are provided with a question ‘In What Ways Can Your Chosen Film be Considered Experimental’?
Key points to include in the introduction to the answer are provided to students/
Explain HIGH ART vs/ LOW ART as a convention of Post modern cinema
Compare a scene from The Wire with a scene from Superfly* - analysis task and feedback ***
This point links to the title card used to open the film
Discussion of ‘Pulp Fiction novels’ and how *Pulp Fiction the film reflects the post-modern approach
Part II - Experimental Techniques
Comparison between ‘Road Wars’ scene from Fast and Furious 7, and the ‘Royale With Cheese’ sequence from PF
Student’s analyse in groups then feedback
Analysis of Butch and Marcellus’ first meeting - task: analysis and feedback - breakdown of all experimental approaches used the in the scene
Part III - Representation
Students asks to discuss their views on representation of race and gender in PF
feedback
Introduce the view that Tarantino’s films subvert industry standard approaches to gender and racial representation
Reading task - read section from book to refinforce and develop this argument
students are encouraged to respond to this view and share their own thoughts on Tarantino’s approach
Examples from PF provided to support student understanding
Assessment - timed assessment. Mark scheme included.
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
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 covers and contains:
an introduction to the Research Methods in Context exam question
Re-cap of Research Methods key terms/factors
Exemplar question - task and teacher led discussion of how to answer the question
Exemplar question - task; students to repeat the previous task using another question
Sample response anlaysis task
Extended Research Methods in Context plenary activities
Assessment that can be set as homework (with sample answer)
In-depth student handout - gapped section, re-cap of Research Methods, activities and sample response(s)
Methods in Context textbook scans
Methods in context CRIB SHEET
All resources needed
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 one 20-slide PowerPoint presentation, one booklet (to be completed by students; the booklet also contains several consolidation activities) and a starter task
Lesson:
Starter/Re-cap/revisiting activity - definitions of religion
Age
Gender
Class
Ethnicity
For each of the four groups listed above there are 2-3 slides for each.
The slides cover key arguments, contain graphs and statistics to support points, key terms are highlighted and theorists are cited.
Consolidation activity - students to read one of four articles that cover each of the groups studied in the lesson. Each student annotated, draws out quotes and key arguments and then contributes to a group ‘wiki’ page. The ‘wiki’ page can be created in Teams, or it can be created on paper, shared with the teacher and then scanned in to one comprehensive revision resource.
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 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.