News and online media Other information (lesson 8)

Below is a brief lesson plan that attempts to cover as much as possible during the enforced closure.  Most of the content has been covered by previous posts. However you need to look at and attempt in more detail lessons three and seven. You will also need to attempt the question in lesson 8

News and Online News

Lesson Plan Outline

Lesson 1	Introduction to news. Analysis of news stories, news values. News selection tasks. Look at current news stories
Lesson 2	Look at three news stories, that can be followed over the course of a few lessons. Focus upon aspects that are covered in the exam (Media Language). Headlines, Images, how the story and people are being represented. Look at newspaper social media sites. How is the story being discussed on social media. Ask students to track the stories over the next few lessons.
Lesson 3	Focus on social media sites. Use sheet provided (Students examine three newspaper web-sites and three newspaper social media sites (Daily Mirror, Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph) Main emphasis to be on layout, style, conventions of web-sites, stories covered, images used. For social media sites, look at us as an audience and how we impact upon stories and ways of discussing, debating stories. Look at target audience and use of technology.
Lesson 4	Codes and conventions / analysis of newspaper front covers. Use practice exam paper front covers of Theresa May Brexit story. Discuss how to approach completing an analysis of the cover. Discuss media language, representation, identity, structuralism. Students attempt to write an analysis once discussion compete. (Remember to use some of the lesson to track and update stories)
Lesson 5	(Remember to use some of the lesson to track and update stories) Continue with analysis of front covers of newspapers. Give students three front covers to analyse, based on exam criteria and work completed in previous lesson. Look at three Facebook / Twitter pages. Use snippet tool to create three images. Same process as Front cover analysis.
Lesson 6	Students write an analysis of the stories they have tracked. Select one of the stories and answer a list of questions based on the story. Questions focus on media language, audience discussion / response and theories that can be applied to the story.
Lesson 7	Facts, figures and technology lesson (1). A historical view of news, start with newspaper history, radio news, TV news, internet and access to news constantly. How has technology changed the way news is constructed and presented. Has it impacted on what we now view as having news values, or have news values been diminished and devalued? Decline in newspaper sales, who accesses news online?
Lesson 8	(2). Continuation of previous lesson. However, students need to gather data and demonstrate they can use the information by answering an exam style question. ‘Changing social contexts, caused by technological advances, have created a long term decline in the circulation of national newspapers. Explain how newspapers have responded to these changes. Refer to a newspaper of your choice to support your answer’.