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Lesson 10
It's time for presentations! You have a 6 minute and 40 second Pecha Kucha presentation today. Your teacher will give you the exact details about how they want these to run. The most traditional format...
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By the time you reach the Paper 1 exam, you will want to have practiced working with unseen texts in multiple ways. In fact, you can already prepare for Paper 1 from the first day in the English A: Language...
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Lesson 7
Lesson 7 returns explicitly to the guiding conceptual question framed in Lesson 1. The focus today is on perspective, taking a perspective different from one's own, and trying to come to terms with how...
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Lesson 6
This is a fast lesson today and one that requires an ability to shift between many different military recruitment posters. In all, 4 TV commercials will be analyzed today. This lesson is designed...
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Lesson 5
It's time for another Socratic Seminar! But this time, two TV commercials will be discussed, analyzed, debated, and more. Lesson Starter (5 minutes) FOR STUDENTS: Turn and talk to your partner/table...
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Lesson 3
Lesson 3 uses the same TV commercial from Lesson 2. In this lesson, the focus is on close language and image analysis. After a lesson starter, there will be a mini-lesson (short lecture) about the interplay...
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Lesson 2
The bulk of lesson 2 focuses on discussing a single TV commercial from the US Army. Most of the lesson will be spent talking, discussing, and analyzing this commercial in the form of a Socratic Seminar (as...
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Lesson 1
The following resources and materials have been put together as a set of 10 lessons around TV commercials by the US Army. The TV commercials are contemporary - published in the 2010s and 2020s. The...
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US Army TV Commercials - Lessons 5 - 7 Free
In this week’s update, we’ve added 3 more lessons to the materials and resources from the US Army TV commercials body of work. The final 3 lessons will be published on September 8th. Lesson 5 Lesson...
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Blind Date, and When Paul Met Jonathan: An Introduction to the Concept of Perspective
1982 was a particularly turbulent year in the United Kingdom. The national unemployment rate was around 11%, moving upwards, and the country went to war with Argentina over the South American country’s...