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Lesson 1 - First Responses

Suggestions for how you might pick up on the ideas and issues raised by the play and discuss the students’ initial responses. You can select to do one or more from the range included.

They can be used as stand alone exercises or as preparation for one of the other lessons. They use a range of strategies and could be used in a variety of different lessons: i.e. PSHE/ Science/ English/ Drama/ Form Tutor Period etc.
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Lesson 2: What Do We Think

Objective
To give your students a structured activity that allows them to explore what they know, think and feel about the issues that the play and debate raise.

Materials
Ideally a large space i.e. drama studio, a gymn or a cleared classroom
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Lesson 3: PSHE/Citizenship- Challenging Stereotypes

This lesson is primarily a PSHE lesson which uses drama techniques. However, it can be adapted to have a stronger Drama focus by making it a comparison between stereotypes and complex characters.

Aim
To explore and understand the differences between stereotypes and complex individuals (and causes and solutions for bullying?).

Objectives
To create dramatic representations of stereotypes and complex characters.
To understand why stereotypes arise.
To understand the limitations negative/positive of stereotyping.

National Curriculum links
CITIZENSHIP/PSHE: KS4 AO2, AO3
ENGLISH (Drama): KS4 AO1,AO2

Materials
Large empty classroom/Drama studio
White board. Marker pen.
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Lesson 4: Physical Education

This lesson offers a number of games and exercises designed to improve footballing skills at the same time as promoting inclusion.

Aim
To introduce the class to basic and more advanced football skills and techniques, in an innovative and enjoyable way

Objectives
To improve team skills
To introduce football in a non-competitive context (through dance)
To highlight and improve on the creative skills involved in football

National Curriculum Links:
PHYSICAL EDUCATION: KS4 AO1, AO2, AO3
DANCE: KS4 AO2

Materials:
Large open space (e.g. gym), footballs, cones, blind-folds, stereo, music track
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Lesson 5: Religious Studies

Is football the new religion?

Aim
To compare similar aspects of the world's major religions, and to compare these with the growing international culture of football, discussing whether the game is replacing religion on a social and spiritual level.

Objectives
To discuss the ritualistic aspects of the major religions

National curriculum links
RELIGIOUS STUDIES: KS4 AO1, AO2

Materials
Information Sheets RS 1 and 2 included in the document
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Lesson 6: Drama

What do the characters learn?

Aim:
To explore how the characters learn and change over the course of the play.

Objectives:
To understand the inter-connection between relationships and views.
To understand that personal views may change in relation to other people and events.
To demonstrate how the characters’ relationships and views change over the course of the play.

National Curriculum Links
PSHE KS3 3g, h & I KS4 3e
ENGLISH (Drama) KS3 & KS4 4a & b
(check)

Materials:
Play Synopsis (see Preparatory Lessons)
Possibly white board and pen
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Lesson 7: English
(Looking at Language)

Aim:
To explore how language is used in media writing about football

Objectives:
To analyse use of dramatic language
To discuss the distinction between banter/teasing and abusive/objectionable language
To compare broadsheet and tabloid styles of journalism
To write an article in one of these styles

National Curriculum Links:
English (Reading and writing)

Materials:
Information Sheets English: Articles 1,2 and 3 included in the document
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Lesson 8: Information and Communication Technology

Aim:
To use the internet to research a topic, and transfer information from the web into a
PowerPoint presentation.

Objectives:
To select relevant information from suggested sources
To use PowerPoint as an aid to public presentation

National Curriculum Links:
1.2a, 1.3c, 1.5a,b, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
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Lesson 9: History

Aim:
To transfer knowledge from historical sources to a written document

Objectives:
To select relevant information and draw conclusions

National Curriculum Links:
1 a, b, 2 a, 3, 4 a, b, 5, 6 c
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