1. 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 offer
Informed personal engagement with issues and debates

2. TODAY
• Presentations
• What is Britishness
• Research
• Debate
• Essay writing

3. What is
Britishness?

4. Union Jack Girl © Still Pictures/Duncan Walker

5. 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 offer
Informed personal engagement
with issues and debates

6. ONE WORD to define it…

7. 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…

8. What
different
readings
could this
create?

9. 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 offer
Informed personal engagement with issues and debates

10. ROYALS vs RIOTS
• Which are we? • Become an active
audience!
Level 4: Explanation/Analysis/Argument:
Make connections to present a coherent argument and offer
Informed personal engagement with issues and debates

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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?

14. 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?

15. 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?

16. 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 offer
Informed personal engagement with issues and debates
How did you meet today’s LO?