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 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.
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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
Functionalist view of Family, complete lesson and handout. The pack covers:
Re-cap of Functionalism
George Peter Murdock (1949)
Stable satisfaction of the sex drive
Socialisation of the young
Reproduction of the next generation
Meeting its members’ economic needs
Criticisms of Murdock
Parsons’ Functional Family Fit
The Nuclear Family**
Extended Family
Function of the Nuclear and Extended Family
TWO BASIC AND IRREDUCTABLE FUNCTIONS
The Family as the ‘Peaceful Haven’
Critiques of the Functionalist View
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 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 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
**
Abuse of Trust **
Harold Shipman case study - tasks
Case Study: Abuse of trust by the Police
**
Invisibility of Corporate Crimes**
Reading task / Q*A
**
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 17 page PowerPoint and accompanying student booklet
This PowerPoint offers a basic introduction to the Paper 3 Crime & Deviance paper. The lesson covers:
Break down of Paper 3
this looks at question types, structure of the paper, past paper is included in the PowerPoint and booklet
Past paper activity can be used to drive a Q&A or a ‘deep dive’ with students discussing potential answers to questions so the teacher can assess pre-existing knowledge
Key terms defined: CRIME / DEVIANCE (with examples of each)
Discussion of the distinction between Crime and Deviance
Student led activity / debate - students are presened with SIX questions and are asked to discuss and feedback - this task could be used to guide a debate between groups of students
Consolidation task
students to research, define and provide examples for a list of key terms that will be used througout the module
Booklet - gapped handout, areas to fill in, space for note, all key information is recorded in the booklet
This pack contains a 12-slide PowerPoint presentation and accompanying student booklet
This lesson is designed to be student led and contains a student presentation task - the price of this pack reflects this
Contents:
Starter
Students to discuss attitudes towards crime, punishment, government policy
REALISM vs SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONISM - defined
REALISM - definition expanded upon
RIGHT REALISM
Define, examples and short video summarising Charles Murray's perspective
LEFT REALISM
Define, examples and a short video
Presentation tasks
Each group will produce a poster presentation on one of the following:
RIGHT REALISM – CAUSES OF CRIME
RIGHT REALISM – SOLUTIONS TO CRIME
LEFT REALISM – CAUSES OF CRIME
LEFT REALISM – SOLUTIONS TO CRIME
Your presentation must include KEY CONCEPTS, CLEAR EXPLANATIONS, NAMED RESEARCH and an EVALUATION
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
These English G.C.S.E. resources have been designed for the AQA speciation.
This PAPER 1 SECTION A session follows this format:
1 – Starter tasks: VOCAB expansion: learning, defining, and finding synonyms for new words
2 – SPAG Focus: Using apostrophes
3 – Text: Robert Galbraith, The Cuckoo’s Calling
4 – Questions 1,2,3 and 4 are broken down and simplified.
5 – The text is explored, analysed, evaluated using each of the four questions
6- Assessment activities
7 – Plenary activities
Each lesson is accompanied by a work-booklet and additional handouts for the SPAG activities.
These English G.C.S.E. resources have been designed for the AQA speciation.
This PAPER 1 SECTION A session follows this format:
1 – Starter tasks: VOCAB expansion: learning, defining, and finding synonyms for new words
2 – SPAG Focus:COMMAS
3 – Text: The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
4 – Questions 1,2,3 and 4 are broken down and simplified.
5 – The text is explored, analysed, evaluated using each of the four questions
6- Assessment activities
7 – Plenary activities
Each lesson is accompanied by a work-booklet and additional handouts for the SPAG activities.
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.
These English G.C.S.E. resources have been designed for the AQA speciation.
This PAPER 1 SECTION B session follows this format:
1 – Starter tasks: VOCAB expansion: learning, defining, and finding synonyms for new words
2 – SPAG Focus: adjectives and adverbs
3 –** Questions 5-** break down and discussion
4 – Exam focus activities: Planning a response (5 mini activities using stimulus materials)
5 – Exam technique: Flashbacks
6 – Task/assessment activities: Story writing / descriptions
7 – Plenary activities: vocab test
Each lesson is accompanied by a work-booklet and additional handouts for the SPAG activities.
These English G.C.S.E. resources have been designed for the AQA speciation.
This PAPER 1 SECTION A session follows this format:
1 – Starter tasks: VOCAB expansion: learning, defining, and finding synonyms for new words
2 – SPAG Focus: Parts of speech: nouns and prepositions
3 – Text: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde
By Robert Louis Stevenson
4 – Questions 1,2,3 and 4 are broken down and simplified.
5 – The text is explored, analysed, evaluated using each of the four questions
6- Assessment activities
7 – Plenary activities
Each lesson is accompanied by a work-booklet and additional handouts for the SPAG activities.
These English G.C.S.E. resources have been designed for the AQA speciation.
This PAPER 1 SECTION B session follows this format:
1 – Starter tasks: VOCAB expansion: learning, defining, and finding synonyms for new words
2 – SPAG Focus: Using question marks
4 – Questions 5- break down and discussion
5 – Exam focus activities: Planning a response (5 mini activities using stimulus materials)
7 – Task/assessment activities: Story writing / descriptions
8 – Plenary activities: vocab test
Each lesson is accompanied by a work-booklet and additional handouts for the SPAG activities.
This contains the lessons, each designed for the Eduqas A Level Film Studies specification.
Lesson 1 - Quentin Tarantino Experimental Auteur
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12745600
Lesson 2 - Experimental Narrative
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12743717
Lesson 3 - Experimental Cinematography
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12746945
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**This pack is designed for the Eduqas Film A Level, but it suitable for any one teaching/studying Non-Linear narratives/Pulp Fiction and narrative.
The pack contains a 26-slide PowerPoint presentation that covers:
Pulp Fiction: Experimental Narrativ**e [Specialist Study Area]
starter - recap key narrative terms
intro discussion: how does Pulp Fiction subvert traditional approaches to narrative?
Section 1 - Goal Orientated Narratives - study of how PF’s approach to goal orientation is experimental
Section 2 - Narrative resolutions - study of how PF’s approach to narrative resolution is experimental
Section 3 - Binary Oppositions - study of how PF’s approach to binary oppostions is experimental
Dialogue - how dialgue is used in place of cause and effect
Themes - how themes drive the narrative and give coherence
Final scene - analysis
Plenary activities
Assessement activities - essay planning and writing
Additional resources:
11-page gapped handout for students to complete in the lesson
A3 sized print out of film’s non-linear structure
Breakdown of the three chapters and how themes are used
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 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)
**
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 pack contains one 23-slide PowerPoint that teaches how to answer this question using Pulp Fiction as the chosen film.
One 12-page booklet - note taking, fill in the gaps, analysis, detailed slides and essay planning document. **
Explore how far cinematography contributes to the experimental nature of your chosen film or films. [20]
every analysis task comes with multiple slides breaking down the scenes and provide guidane for essay writing
Lesson covers:
Starter - Re-cap of conventional/mainstream American cinema approach to camera
Short Martin Scorsese/ history of the Hollywood style - documentary extract and tasks
Explanation of the ‘formal’ approach to cinematography - with examples
Discussion of Tarantino’s most common ‘experimental’ uses of camera - with examples from the film
How to write an introduction to the question - writing task
Part 1 - 'using the camera to restrict information and create active spectators.
The ‘Trunk shot’
Part 2 - Subversion of conventional approach / experimenting with scene construction
Analysis of scene from Fast and Furious 7 -
Comparative analysis of the ‘Marcellus meets Butch’ scene from the film
Part 3 - French New Wave: camera in service of the characters, not narrative
Analysis - scene from Breathless
Analysis - comparison to final scene from the film
Detailed visual breakdown of the final sequence
Plenary/assessment:
Read exemplar essay
Review and re-write activity
optional research task
Essay planning activity [with booklet]
Mark scheme
This pack contains TWO lessons.
Lesson 1 - Social Context:
Intro to film and module
Review of past paper questions - these are used to structure the entire session and all students will be able to answer the questions by the end of the session
Film’s genre and director/stars
Social Context - post war USA
Boomer generation and conflict with teens/youth
Rebellion in the 1950s
Series of key scene analysis tasks covering: social context, mise-en-scene
Lesson 2 - Production Context
What is ‘Production Context’
Review of past paper questions - these are used to structure the entire session and all students will be able to answer the questions by the end of the session
Classic era Studio system/factory filmmaking
Sound in cinema - analysis and history
Stars
Studio model
Patriarchal nature of the classic era
Male Gaze
Genre
In-depth analysis of Cinematography - 10 mark past paper question - analysis tasks and in-class assessment for this question
This pack contains SEVEN lessons that cover DISTRICT 9.
All lessons have been planned using exam board past papers, guidance and additional materials. Each lesson focuses on a specific element of the course and builds towards an assessment based upon previous exam papers/questions.
The lessons included all come with accompanying handouts and additional resources:
Lesson 1 -Intro to Science Fiction Genre and Screening tasks
Lesson 2 - Character Types - The Hero’s Journey applied to Wikus
Lesson 3 - Cinematography of District 9
Lesson 4 - Representation & Context: Apartheid
Lesson 5 - Mise-en-scene of District 9
Lesson 6- Narrative of District 9
Lesson 7 - Sound of mise-en-scene