What is Britishness?

LO: To understand what Britishness means today and to

develop debating skills

Level 4: Explanation/Analysis/Argument:Make connections to present a coherent argument and offerInformed personal engagement with issues and debates

TODAY

• Presentations

• What is Britishness

• Research

• Debate

• Essay writing

What is Britishness?

Union Jack Girl © Still Pictures/Duncan Walker

What is your interpretation of Britishness today?

• You have 5 lines to summarise your opinion

Level 4: Explanation/Analysis/Argument:Make connections to present a coherent argument and offerInformed personal engagement with issues and debates

ONE WORD to define it…

Stuart Hall Reception Theory• Passive vs Active audience

• Reception Theory

• Extending the concept of an active audience in the 1980s and 1990s a lot of work was done on the way individuals received and interpreted a text, and how their individual circumstances (gender, class, age, ethnicity) affected their reading.

• This work was based on Stuart Hall's encoding/decoding model of the relationship between text and audience - the text is encoded by the producer, and decoded by the reader, and there may be major differences between two different readings of the same code.

• Preferred/dominant

• Negotiated

• Oppositional

e.g. gender affects the reading: boys laugh at violence in a film but girls find it upsetting…

What different readings could this create?

What is Britishness?

LO: To understand what Britishness means today and to develop analysis skills

Level 4: Explanation/Analysis/Argument:Make connections to present a coherent argument and offerInformed personal engagement with issues and debates

ROYALS vs RIOTS

• Which are we? • Become an active audience!

Level 4: Explanation/Analysis/Argument:Make connections to present a coherent argument and offerInformed personal engagement with issues and debates

Whose winning the debate?

• Move forward:• 1 step – if you agree/think

it’s a good point• 2 steps – if they mention

any stats/research info

• Move back:• 1 step – if you disagree

with their point• 2 step – if they make a

point and don’t use evidence

Whose winning the debate?

• Move forward:• 1 step – if you agree/think

it’s a good point• 2 steps – if they mention

any stats/research info• 3 steps – if they link to

theory

• Move back:• 1 step – if you disagree

with their point• 2 step – if they make a

point and don’t use evidence

• 3 step – if one member doesn’t contribute anything

Are we royals or rioters?• Level 4:

Explanation/Analysis/Argument:

• Make connections to present a coherent argument and offer

• Informed personal engagement with issues and debates

• Answer this question consolidating what you have learnt today…include Stuart Hall’s theory

• Level 3 – passive vs active audience• Level 4 – negotiated, preferred, oppositional

responses

What do you think at the moment?

Are we royals or rioters?• Level 4:

Explanation/Analysis/Argument:

• Make connections to present a coherent argument and offer

• Informed personal engagement with issues and debates

• Point: I think Britain is represented as royals more than rioters.• Evidence: During the royal wedding, people all over the country had

street parties, over 5, 500 according to guardian.co.uk.• Explain: This connotes a sense of unity in Britain and represents

British people as patriotic because they support the royal family.

What do you think at the moment?

Are we royals or rioters?

• Level 4: Explanation/Analysis/Argument:

• Make connections to present a coherent argument and offer

• Informed personal engagement with issues and debates

What do you think NOW?

Peer assess answers…

Read each other’s – is it level 4?

What is Britishness?

LO: To understand what Britishness means today and to

develop analysis skills

Level 4: Explanation/Analysis/Argument:Make connections to present a coherent argument and offerInformed personal engagement with issues and debates

How did you meet today’s LO?