[B] How have these categories fared?
[C] What sort of people appear on TV and in print most often?
[D] Does media coverage fairly represent how important people are?
[E] Who is missing from the list?
Prompt: Scientists, union leaders, voluntary workers, community leaders, visual arts.
Working in pairs students design their own way of assessing contributions to society.
e.g. They could devise a questionnaire with differing scores for various types of behaviour.
Suggestions for contributions:
- Helps others
- Obeys the law
- Is a good friend
- Votes in every election
- Makes people happy
- Supports charities
- Joins a political party
- Works hard
- Follows political issues in newspapers
people in the community
- Protests when something is wrong
- Takes part in politics
- Writes to a Member of Parliament if they
feel strongly about something
- Takes part in activities to protect
Use the questionnaires on students in other groups.
Would you get a good understanding of our society just from watching TV and films?
What sort of things might you misunderstand?
Who would you think were the most important people in our society?
- Forbes ranks people by combining earning power and public exposure - including magazine and newspaper articles, TV and radio appearances and web hits.
- Author JK (Joanne Kathleen) Rowling was a teacher when the idea for Harry came to her on a train in 1990.
- She spent five years writing the first book and plotting out what will eventually be a series of seven.
- She lives in Edinburgh with her family.
- Harry Potter creator JK Rowling was ranked the sixth most powerful celebrity - rocketing up from 15th position last year.
- The author has sold more than 250 million copies of her five Harry Potter books.
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