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KS3/4 English: Educating Rita 5 (1983)
 
AuthorJessica Hardiman
 
TopicDeveloping a full impression of character in Educating Rita
 
Key Words Educating Rita, Willy Russell, Frank, Liverpool, Open University, Education, Literature
 
Curriculum links NC KS3 English Listening/Reading: Students should learn to develop and sustain independent interpretations of what they read, supporting them with detailed textual reference; students should also learn present information clearly and persuasively to others, selecting the most appropriate way to structure and organise their speech for clarity and effect.
 
Media Literacy OpportunitiesStudents learn to be able to analyse the specific ways in which moving image versions of texts achieve their effect - in combinations of image and sound (and contrast these with the ways in which literary texts 'solve' problems of rendering action/setting/character etc.