COMPONENT 2: TV IN THE GLOBAL AGE,'THE BRIDGE' (REPRESENTATION, CONTEXTS & APPLYING 6 REP THEORIES)

‘THE BRIDGE’ Lesson 17-18= This Double lesson is part of a tailored unit to help students understand the differences between writing for Component 1 and 2. I have designed the ‘Life on Mars’ and ‘The Bridge’ lessons separately so as to focus on all of RAIL (Representation, Audience, Industry and Language (Media) respectively. 'The Bridge lessons will follow exactly the same format as the ‘Life On Mars’ series of lessons and will include 4 Power Points, one on each of the RAIL terms. There will also be a lesson on Narrative and Post-Modernism where both forms will be combined into one lesson due the difficulty students often have with such concepts. It is my intention to teach my students the RAIL term for ‘Life On Mars’ and then 'The Bridge to aid their compare and contrasting. This Double lesson features:

-Examiner expectations.
-Cultural/ social and political contexts of disability and syndromes being depicted on screens.
-Underepresentation of disability and syndromes on TV and the tropes/ stereotypes associated with them.
-Assessing retained knowledge of the 6 theoretical Framework theorists (students select which ones they would apply to ‘The Bridge’)
-Application of Stuart Hall, bell Hooks, Van Zoonen, Gauntlett
-Disability in the Media theorist Paul Darke and his opinions of representations
-What is Aspergers Syndrome (Audio/ Visual)
-To what extent can ‘The Bridge’ be argued as a text that seeks to progressively explore Butler’s themes. Write one paragraph under the red question heading in your books.
-Can Saga be deemed a Feminist heroine/ icon?
-Timed essay response: Compared with the past, David Gauntlett argues that in the media today ‘we no longer get singular, straightforward messages about ideal types of male and female identities.’ Evaluate the validity of this claim with reference to the set EPSIODES of ‘LIFE ON MARS’ and ‘THE BRIDGE’ and the historical contexts in which they are produced. [30]

**THIS LESSON INCLUDES ALL LINKS TO ARTICLES, CLIPS AND LITERATURE, PRINTABLE RESOURCES AND PRINTABLE RESOURCE SHEETS WITHIN THE POWER POINT. MOREOVER, IT COMPLETES A TASK STARTED IN THE LAST LESSON IN THE SEQUENCE https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/component-2-tv-in-the-global-age-life-on-mars-representation-and-contexts-12068943

NOTE: I am following EDUQAS Teaching Model 1 in my teaching/ SOW and my school is only providing Media Studies at A-Level, as a Two- Year Course. Moreover, each lesson has a task whereby students RAG (Red, Amber, Green) what they have learnt in the lesson against an Examiner checklist (Differentiation, peer assessment).

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