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Stone Cold Lesson 13 - What's The Big Issue

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This document provides lesson instructions for analyzing a passage from "The Big Issue" and creating a magazine front cover. It states that by the end of the lesson, all students will be able to retrieve quotations from the text, most will be able to identify magazine layout conventions, and some will understand how conventions impact readers. Students are asked to answer comprehension questions about pages 61-69 and then design their own Big Issue cover targeting homeless people with uplifting stories.

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By the end of the lesson... ALL of you will be able to select and retrieve information from the text using quotations. RAF 2 MOST of you will be able to identify the basic layout of a magazine front cover and produce a media text which is appropriate to the reader and purpose. WAF 2 SOME of you will be able to identify why certain conventions are used and the impact of these techniques on the reader.

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Read pages 61 – 69. Using quotations where relevant, answer the following questions... 1. Why is Link worried about Ginger? (p.85) 2. Link asks a Big Issue vendor about Ginger. What information does he give him? (p.86) 3. Who does Link meet in an 'all - night joint,' and what does she suggest might have happened to Ginger? (p.88) 4. Why do you think that Link decides 'Don't let anybody close?' (p.88) 5. Describe the unusual appearance of the 'dosser' that walks into the café . (p.89) 6. What excuse does Link give for wanting to leave? What is the real reason that he wants to leave? (p.91) 7. Give two reasons why Link decides to stay (p.91)

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Now create your own... • Who reads The Big Issue? (Be specific) • What types of stories would you expect in the Big Issue? • How would you convince someone to buy The Big Issue? • Who would you put on the front cover? Once you have thought through the questions above, begin planning your front cover.

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Are you able to... ...select and retrieve information from the text using quotations. RAF 2 ...identify the basic layout of a magazine front cover and produce a media text which is appropriate to the reader and purpose. WAF 2 ...identify why certain conventions are used and the impact of these techniques on the reader.

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If you were selling The Big Issue, what would you say to convince someone to buy a copy? Free delivery! Two free staples with every copy!

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Stone Cold Lesson 13 - What's The Big Issue

  • 2. Lesson 13 – What’s The Big Issue?
  • 3. By the end of the lesson... ALL of you will be able to select and retrieve information from the text using quotations. RAF 2 MOST of you will be able to identify the basic layout of a magazine front cover and produce a media text which is appropriate to the reader and purpose. WAF 2 SOME of you will be able to identify why certain conventions are used and the impact of these techniques on the reader.
  • 4. Read pages 61 – 69. Using quotations where relevant, answer the following questions... 1. Why is Link worried about Ginger? (p.85) 2. Link asks a Big Issue vendor about Ginger. What information does he give him? (p.86) 3. Who does Link meet in an 'all - night joint,' and what does she suggest might have happened to Ginger? (p.88) 4. Why do you think that Link decides 'Don't let anybody close?' (p.88) 5. Describe the unusual appearance of the 'dosser' that walks into the café . (p.89) 6. What excuse does Link give for wanting to leave? What is the real reason that he wants to leave? (p.91) 7. Give two reasons why Link decides to stay (p.91)
  • 6. Now create your own... • Who reads The Big Issue? (Be specific) • What types of stories would you expect in the Big Issue? • How would you convince someone to buy The Big Issue? • Who would you put on the front cover? Once you have thought through the questions above, begin planning your front cover.
  • 7. Are you able to... ...select and retrieve information from the text using quotations. RAF 2 ...identify the basic layout of a magazine front cover and produce a media text which is appropriate to the reader and purpose. WAF 2 ...identify why certain conventions are used and the impact of these techniques on the reader.
  • 8. If you were selling The Big Issue, what would you say to convince someone to buy a copy? Free delivery! Two free staples with every copy!