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analyse and assess the diverse ways in which creative and critical texts can represent human experience, universal themes and social contexts analyse and assess the impact of language and structural choices on shaping own and others’ perspectives (ACEEN028) EN12-8 explains and assesses cultural assumptions in texts and their effects on meaning Students: assess and reflect on the ways values and assumptions are conveyed (ACELR058) How does the film use particular techniques to show the impact on Billy of his father’s anger and aggression? How does the film avoid depicting Billy’s father as an insensitive monster? Refer to a particular scene in detail. Students compare how the film presents other characters dealing with adversity: Jackie (Billy’s father), Tony (Billy’s brother) and Billy’s grandmother. The class could be divided into groups to facilitate greater participation and more independent learning. The significant example of struggling with adversity in the film is the coal miners’ strike. Students consider and answer the following questions: What do we learn about the coal miners’ strike through the film? How does the filmmaker ensure that the coal miners’ strike is a focus of the film and not just a background event? How does the film use particular techniques to depict the anger, frustration and suffering of the coal miners and the wider community? How is the miners’ strike resolved? How does the filmmaker create a particular mood in this part of the film? Students consider in particular the techniques used in the scene when the men return to the mines. Does the film present a particular perspective towards the coal miners’ strike? Is it pro-government, pro-miner or neutral? What do we know about the screenwriter, Lee Hall, and the director, Stephen Daldry, that might explain their particular perspective? How are we being positioned to respond to the coal miners and the wider community in a particular way? Teacher guides students to synthesise thinking the film’s representation of the struggle with adversity. The following questions may assist: