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CURRICULUM OVERVIEW MEDIA YEAR 7 2011-2012

Year 7: Producing a News Story   
5 Week  Project
Week
Learning Objective
Resources
Week  1

Working in a team: To identify and explain what a good team is and give a presentation on film to evaluate

Skills: identify, explain, discuss, demonstration, assessment    

IWB with Active Studio presentation,, L2 teamplay, poster paper, 6 x cameras, 6 tripods, 6 tapes, team mats

Keywords:  skill, support, negotiate,
Week 2

The 5 R’s and teamwork: To know what the 5R’s are and interpret how they can be used in teamwork and applying to the a 5 W task

Skills:  define, discuss, explain, interpret, apply    

IWB with Active Studio presentation,, summary star 5, team mats, 5 R posters

Keywords:  responsible, reflection, reasoning, resilient, who, what, where, when, why, how
Week 3 

5 W’s and How: Know what the 5W’s are and interpret from a news story. Understand how a news story is structured. Research and plan a news story on cyber bullying as a team.

Skills:  arrange, define, classify, choose, examination    

IWB with Active Studio presentation,, news article on cyber bullying, computers, and internet, team mats, 5 W flow chart and inverted pyramid scaffold

Keywords: who, where, what, why, when, how, cyber bullying, research, inverted pyramid, structure, plan
Week 4

Scriptwriting a news story: To structure research using the 5 W’s & H with inverted pyramid and write the script for news brief as a team. Evaluation of news brief.

Skills:  arrange, describe, explain,  write,  plan,  construct, assess   

IWB with Active Studio presentation,, 5W’s & H scaffold, script scaffold, Self-Assessment questionnaire, team mats

Keywords: posture, projection, pace, pitch, pause, pronunciation, personality
Week 5 
The 7 P’s of presentation: Students to know and understand the 7 P’s and work as a team to achieve them. To practice as a team in creating a news brief to be filmed and evaluate their work    
IWB with Active Studio presentation,,  Scripts, 6 x cameras, 6 x tripods and 6 x dv cassettes, Evaluation sheet for peer assessment on teamwork, presentation, use of 5 W’s and structure