Lesson 03 - Plan


Date:
Time: / Period
No. of pupils

Year 7

Suggested for English, Media Studies and Citizenship

Topic: Charities

Unit title: Lesson 03

Lesson Plan

Key concepts /
  • Reading a piece of Media
  • Collaborative learning

Key learning objectives
By the end of the lesson, pupils will: /
  • be able to draw meaning from a poster
  • be able to work together with others

Lesson content
Teacher activity and teaching points and pupil activities/tasks / Time
(min)
  • Prior to the start of the lesson, place Resource 3a: posters around the classroom. Posters are best printed in colour at A3 size, if possible. Some of the posters are disturbing and may not be appropriate for all classrooms.

  • Pupils enter room and take seats in silence; registration
/ 2
  • Starter: Review and sharing of previous lesson’s homework. Ensure the work was done, and that Point-Evidence-Explain were properly used.
/ 10
  • Main: Pupils will work in small groups to analyze a number of posters distributed around the classroom. The posters are drawn from different Barnardo’s campaigns spanning the past decade. Explain that their task is to travel from poster to poster (roughly 5 minutes each) and, working and discussing together, to fill a chart. They will use this information later to answer a question: display Resource 3b: Task Question.
/ 30
  • Display and distribute Resource 3c: analysis chart.
/ 3
  • Pupils begin the task.

  • Task: Pupils begin to answer the Task Question, to be completed as homework.
/ 10
  • Plenary: Q&A about the posters: which did they like best? How was that image used? Why this font? Etc....
/ 5
Differentiation
(Plans for: the most able pupils; the less able; pupils with SEN; EAL learners).
  • SEN:-
  • Lower:-
  • Middle:-
  • Top:-

Resources/Materials
  • Poster
  • Worksheets
/ Homework
  • Complete task question

Assessment:
  • Homework task question

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Barnardo’s adheres to the Fundraising Promise and Fundraising Standards Board guidelines.Barnardo’s Registered Charity Nos. 216250 and SC037605.

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Barnardo’s adheres to the Fundraising Promise and Fundraising Standards Board guidelines.Barnardo’s Registered Charity Nos. 216250 and SC037605.

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Barnardo’s adheres to the Fundraising Promise and Fundraising Standards Board guidelines.Barnardo’s Registered Charity Nos. 216250 and SC037605.

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Barnardo’s adheres to the Fundraising Promise and Fundraising Standards Board guidelines.Barnardo’s Registered Charity Nos. 216250 and SC037605.

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Barnardo’s adheres to the Fundraising Promise and Fundraising Standards Board guidelines.Barnardo’s Registered Charity Nos. 216250 and SC037605.

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Barnardo’s adheres to the Fundraising Promise and Fundraising Standards Board guidelines.Barnardo’s Registered Charity Nos. 216250 and SC037605.

Lesson 03- Resource 3B


Year 7

Suggested for English, Media Studies and Citizenship

Topic: Charities

Unit title: Lesson 03

Resource 3B

Favourite Poster

Using the information you collected by looking at and analysing the six posters in the classroom, answer the following question:

Which one of the six posters was your favourite, and why? Which one of the six posters did you like the least, and why?

Remember

  • Write about the layout, text, image and font/style of at least two posters when writing your answer
  • To use paragraphs
  • To use PEE

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Lesson 03-Resource 3C


Year 7

Suggested for English, Media Studies and Citizenship

Lesson 03 - Resource 3C

Analysing a poster

Working with the members of your group, travel from poster to poster and do your best to fill in the chart below. Take short, point form notes and answer the questions at the bottom of the page.

Image / Text / Layout / Font / Style
Poster 01
Poster 02
Poster 03
Image / Text / Layout / Font / Style
Poster 04
Poster 05
Poster 06
  1. Each poster has a “campaign slogan” attached to it. This is the theme of the poster. What is the slogan attached to each poster?

Poster 01: / Poster 02: / Poster 03:
Poster 04: / Poster 05: / Poster 06:
  1. All the posters and each campaign ran at different times over the past 10 years. Put the three campaigns in the order in which you think they came out.
  2. First:
  1. Middle:
  1. Last:

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