Thursday, 19 December 2013
Friday, 6 December 2013
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.
Friday, 29 November 2013
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?
Thursday, 28 November 2013
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.
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