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| ORIENTATING PHASE |
| Lesson 1 Introduction to Unit | Lesson 2 How Persuasion Works | Lesson 3 Music Video Clips |
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Text: Video clip; Youth stereotypes Activities: Identify youth stereotypes and their attitudes to clothing, music, food, self concepts, relationships, work, drugs etc. Identify products that would meet the needs of different groups. Assessment: Close analysis |
Text: Diverse range of media texts. Activities: Think /Pair /Share activity which compares the findings on products chosen and ways of targeting different student groups. Students outline types of advertisements they could devise. Assessment: Advertisements |
Text: Various popular music video clips Activities: Examine power/ gender relationships and ask for fictional construction, reader positions and identification of the ideology behind the texts. Assessment: Answers to questions, discussion. |
| Lesson 4 Let's listen to sounds | Lesson 5 Dialogue - Pace and Tone | Lesson 6 Changing meaning with Dialogue |
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Text: Dialogue Activities: Students construct a dialogue based on a character description and compare and reconstruct in pairs. Assessment: Discussion, peer assessment. |
Text: Dialogue Activities: Students practice reading dialogues in different ways to appreciate the ways that pace and tone add to the message Assessment: Peer assessment. |
Text: Photos from documentary and video of documentary Activities: Sts to write different types of voice overs for photos. Students compare voice overs and write a commentary on voice overs used in documentaries. Assessment: Commentary. |
| ENHANCING PHASE | ||
| Lesson 7 Music and Meaning | Lesson 8 Sound Effects | Lesson 9 Sound Mix |
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Text: Television and film genres Activities: Given different Television and film genres, students are required to name songs, instrumental pieces or types of music they would use for each type of program. Assessment: Research Task |
Text: Sound Effects Activities: Students experiment with the creation of different sound effects. Students create a story that is based on sound effects. Assessment: Written answers and drawings. |
Text: Sound Effects and Pictures Activities: Students determine the sound effects that would be used for different photos or shots from a film. They are required to draw / storyboard two following scenes and label the actions and sound effects. Assessment: Written answers and drawings. |
| Lesson 10 Dialogue, Music, Sound Effects | Lesson 11 Dialogue, Music, Sound Effects cont. | Lesson 12 Interviews |
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Text: Short Story Activities: Group Activity - Students write the dialogue, sound effects, identify type of music for scenes, and record the mix on tape. Assessment: Taped mix of scene. |
Text: Short Story Activities: Continue the activities of the last lesson, writing dialogue, sound effects, and recording the mix on tape. Assessment: Recorded mixes |
Text: Interviews Activities: In pairs students practice interviewing each other. The person being interviewed invents a surprise package to drop into the interview. The interviewer then has to change the question format to suit. Assessment: Taped interviews |
| Lesson 13 A point of view | Lesson 14 The Press Conference | Lesson 15 Symbols |
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Text: Interviews Activities: Students decide on a subject, interview several people in the class and record their answers. Students compile an edited tape that contains an introduction, conclusion and points of view that agree with theirs. Assessment: Taped interviews |
Text: Media Organisations Activities: Group Activity. Each group represents a different media organisation. Groups work out interview questions for a visitor to the class who gives a press conference. Assessment: Written or recorded press conference. |
Text: Television Images Activities: Students identify the meaning of images , what they symbolise, and identify which groups are left out of television images. Students identify the feelings aroused by different images and identify the deep meanings of symbols. Assessment: Discussion, results of task. |
| Lesson 16 Symbols - Unconscious Acceptance | Lesson 17 Video of School Promotion | Lesson 18 Gatekeeping |
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Text: Photos Activities: Groups determine underlying meaning of different shots. Groups plan a television promotion for their school. This promotion is to be shot on video. Assessment: Video promotion of school |
Text: Photos, shots, video. Activities: Continue with activity of shooting a television promotion of the school. Assessment: Video promotion of the school. |
Text: Images, captions Activities: Students examine the deeper meaning of descriptions, and write biased captions for images. Students discover how easy it is to make images tell a particular story. Assessment: Results of task |
| SYNTHESING PHASE |
| Lesson 19 Summative assessment tasks | Lesson 20 Summative assessment tasks | Lesson 21 Summative assessment tasks |
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Text: Summative Assessment Tasks Activities: Students continue work on Summative Assessment Tasks. Assessment: Progress of tasks |
Text: Summative assessment tasks Activities: Students continue work on Summative Assessment Tasks. Assessment: Progress of Tasks |
Text: Summative assessment tasks Activities: Students continue work on Summative Assessment Tasks. Assessment: Progress of Tasks |
| Lesson 22 Summative Assessment Tasks | Lesson 23 Summative Assessment Tasks | Lesson 24 Summative Assessment Tasks |
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Text: Summative Assessment Task Activities: Students continue work on Summative Assessment Tasks. Assessment: Progress of Tasks |
Text: Summative Assessment Task Activities: Students continue work on Summative Assessment Tasks. Assessment: Summative Assessment Task |
Text: Summative Assessment tasks Activities: Students complete work on Summative Assessment Tasks. Assessment: Completion of Summative Assessment Task |