Trigger Point GCSE Media Studies Scheme of Work – 10 Lessons, 326-Slide PowerPoint & 35-Page Booklet

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Struggling to find the time and energy to create a new scheme for the Trigger Point set text change? This fully planned, ready-to-teach resource has done **all **the hard work for you!

Written by a consistently outstanding teacher with 25+ years of experience, this 10-lesson scheme for Trigger Point Series 2, Episode 1 is fully aligned to Eduqas Component 2: Investigating the Media – Contemporary British Crime Drama.

Includes:

326-slide PowerPoint with complete lesson content, fully animated and with detailed notes in the slide notes

35-page pupil booklet accompanying the PowerPoint

10 detailed lessons covering:

• Introduction to Crime Drama
• Episode Study
• Social, Cultural & Political Contexts
• Media Language
• Character Analysis – Propp & Barthes
• Representation – Stuart Hall
• Narrative – Todorov & Barthes
• Industry, Ownership & Regulation
• Audience – Hall, Blumler & Katz
• Marketing & Promotion**

Exam-style tasks and scaffolded support for mixed-ability groups

Pedagogy & Teaching Approach:

Built around direct instruction and the best-practice strategies from Doug Lemov’s Teach Like a Champion, lessons include:

• Silent and Solo / Do Now tasks
• I say, you say & choral response
• Clear lesson aims and structured starters
• Mini-whiteboards
• I do / We do / You do
• PEAL paragraph structure
• Introductions, hinge questions, and cold call questioning
• Duel coding
• Turn & Talk activities and Think, Pair, Share.
• Visualiser for modelled exemplars
• Mini-Plenaries and Exit Tickets

And many more techniques to ensure active engagement, scaffolding, and exam-ready analysis.

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