Blackout Blog Contents.

Review the style of the show.

Ensemble, thrust, stream of consciousness, physical theatre, chorus, the actors play,  multiple roles, no set or props, narrator, change location very quickly, the three "unities": unity of place, unity of time and unity of action.

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What have you learnt about acting?

'This Is England' Film Review

Exercises

·      Milling Exercise

·      Catch the clap

·      Chaos

·      Fishes Exercise

Self Evaluation of Lesson 16/01/14

Why do skinheads listen to the music they listen to

Your directorial vision of part of the text.

Group Research

Interim Assessment Grading Sheet

Grading Sheet Blank

Blog Citation Table Link

https://www.dropbox.com/s/84rts9b8j7hrv9e/Internet%20Source%20Sheet.docx

Source Citation Table

Source 1
Blog reference
Author
Title
Web Address
Date Found

Internet Source Checklist

Use the checklist below to check your Internet sources when you have completed your research.

• I checked the websites to make sure they were reliable and from a trustworthy source.
• I cited the author and title of each website I used.
• I cited the website address of each website I used and made sure the address was correct.
• For each website I used I noted the date I found the information.
• I checked that I wrote each of Internet citations in the correct format:
• Author, Web Site, Title, Web Address, Found On Date.

Wading Through the Web Student Handout 1

Complete the worksheet below as you move through the PowerPoint presentation.

1. Can you think of any other ways the Internet and other texts are different? The same?

2. After looking at the first two to three sites on Google, how helpful do you think the information is?

How is the information in Yahoo! different from the information you found in Google?

3. How might a metasearch engine like Dogpile be more helpful than a regular search engine?

5. How does the information you get from Brainboost differ from the information you got on other search engines? What else do you notice on the left hand side?

6. How might KartOO be more helpful than other sites? What makes it unique?

7. How would you explain the benefits of using an Advanced Search to someone who had never tried it before?

Research Guide for “This is England” and “Blackout”.

Compile research about the concept of youth subcultures:

1.    How are youth subcultures defined?

2.    When and why do they emerge?

3.    What are the defining features of youth cultures?

4.    How are they perceived by society and by mass media?

5.    What impact might things like ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation have on the emergence of youth cultures?

Find out about the “skinhead” culture:

1.    When, where and in which social, political and economic contexts did it start?

2.    Did they have a distinctive style?

3.    Why did young people associate themselves with this youth culture?

4.    How did they define themselves?

5.    What was the role of young men and young women in the emergence of this subculture?

6.    Did this youth culture change over the years?

7.    How were they perceived by society and by mass media?

8.    What images do you associate with the word “skinhead”?

9.    Does this subculture still exist?

“Blackout” and “This is England” are described as “semiautobiographical”. Do some research to find out about the film director’s background and discuss how this information can be related to the film?

During the film.

1.    What is the function of the iconography used in the title sequence of the film? How might it help you understand the film?

2.    Who is the story narrated by? What impact does the narrative voice have on you? Why?

3.    How is Shaun represented at the very beginning of the film? How does his representation contribute to your understanding of him as the protagonist of the film?

4.    What do you think about the depiction of the skinhead gang? What are their defining features? Does the director glamorize the gang? Does he demonize it? Give your reasons.

5.    What is the function of Milky in the story? What does his name suggest?

6.    What does the gang mean to Shaun? What does Shaun mean to the gang?

Homework.

1.    What is your view of how masculinity is defined in the film?

2.    Discuss the theme of loss-of-innocence/coming-of-age in the film.