Lesson Plan

First of all, the students will take part in a 5 minute activity where we will get them to brainstorm their own views on British teenagers and how they think they are portrayed by the media and then ask them to write them up as a list. They will then be asked to do the same thing but this time based on the views of the older generation on British teenagers.

There will then be an introduction where we will explain to the class the representation of teenagers and how it has changed throughout the years, from our own research. They are then able to compare what they thought the representation of teenagers was to what they have learnt from our brief desription.

We can then show the class our final cut clip which is based on questions 1 and 3 to explain to the class how the media represents collective groups (teenagers) in different ways and how they are misrepresented and stereotyped, through the use of our voices describing the matter and relating pictures.

At this point of the lesson, I think the theorists should be introduced and explained maybe through a powerpoint or throught the class doing their own research on specific theorists. After about 5 minutes of research the class will be given another task where they have to match together the theorists with their theorys on the representation of teenagers.

We can then show the class the xtranormal clip which will explain to them the comparison of todays representation of teenagers and how they used to be represented. We will end with a clip of Skins to show how television represent teenagers.