Good work today on structuring the G325 responses. You are starting to understand the theory more and apply it to the texts we have already looked at. You should now be gathering ideas of your own from the media that you consume to bring to the debate - there will be many things to gather over the coming week due to Margaret Thatcher's funeral on wednesday. You should also possibly look at coverage surrounding national sports teams which often shows up national stereotypes and representations of Britishness. Next lesson we will look at some of the audience theory so that you can fill this gap in and then you will be able to write a full response.
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0According to the Collins English Dictionary, identity means: ‘State of being a specific person or thing: individuality or personality . . . ‘ Above are the quotes that we used in today's lesson. We will continue looking at the question and how to go about structuring a response next lesson in preparation for you to write your first Section B response. I am still waiting for many of you to turn in some Section A responses for marking. This needs to happen as soon as possible so that I can get feedback to you so that you can improve your performance.
You found out today why the second part of the G325 examination is so tough. Some real degree level social theory really separates the wheat from the chaff! I think that you coped very well today an hopefully can apply some of what you have learnt to the texts that we have seen already and will come to watch over the coming weeks. I have attached the presentation that was used today at the bottom of this entry so that you can download it and use it as part of your revision. We will see, when we look at the exam criteria, how important these theories are and how you should be using them in the examination. Next lesson we will look at a question and how we might go about answering it using the texts that we have seen so far and some modern examples that you will bring to the lesson.
I know that some of you will be looking to complete your evaluations over the coming week and Cat has even been in contact saying that you cannot find the evaluations questions. So, to make it easy for you I have the questions here...
Remember that you need to discuss the development of all of your products, not just the main task. There is a very good example of a high quality Evaluation here - it might give you some good ideas like conducting questionnaires to gauge audience response for instance.
Some good work today although all of you need to work on your general knowledge, especially about British culture such as Shakespeare. The real thing to consider from todays lesson is how a text is a product of the society that makes it. Through the choices that have been made in order to create the texts the concerns of the time are reflected in the text i.e. people are having a tough time at the moment so there are lots of texts reflecting this negative outlook like The Walking Dead, Revolution, Oblivion etc. Just as these reflect the concerns of now so the two historical texts above would reflect the society that made them. Now texts can also be read - through the encoding and decoding process - differently at different points on time; a modern audience may not see the dame things that the maker of a text intended 100 years after the fact.
Some very good work today at understanding key terms of audience. You have now covered all of the subjects that can be asked of question 1b and need to start producing the essay responses so that I can mark them for improvements and you can start learning them in preparation for the examination. We will be moving onto the information needed for 1a this week and next week so that we can focus on the requirements of section B after the Easter break. Make sure that final products find their way onto your blogs and I will do a marking update as soon as I can. It is important that you make the most out of these last few weeks so that you can hit your target grade or even better. I have included the Powerpoint that I used today below so that you can look at the starter sentence and the structure for a response.
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