This document outlines the key topics and activities to be covered in a music press unit. It includes analyzing genres and conventions of music magazines, exploring students' and communities' music listening habits through surveys and charts, building media terminology knowledge through ongoing vocabulary exercises, examining typical magazine contents and formats, and assigning homework that involves purchasing a music magazine and interviewing peers about their music tastes. The goal is to help students develop understanding of music magazines as a media genre.

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2. • THE MUSIC PRESS: Print and Online
What is ‘the press’
What is it we will be
studying ?
How can you research
this?
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3.  To analyse genre and conventions
 To explore music listening habits (of the
class and wider community)
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4. Media Terminology
• Every lesson during this topic we are going to
try and build up our terminology.
• Make a glossary at the back of your book.
• Why is it important we use ‘Media Words’?
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5. GENRE + CONVENTIONS
• Can you define these?
• Could you give an example for the ‘Fashion
magazine’ genre?
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6. Music Genres
• What styles of music do you know and
understand? (apart from Rnb!!!!)
Genre Conventions
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7. Music habits
1. Create a pie chart for how long you spend
listening to different genres of music each week.
2. Name some of the places you actually listen to
your music.
• Which genres would you say are the most
popular?
• If we had asked 100 young people in hackney
what would the percentage be?
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8. Mr Sloan’s Music habits
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9. What do you know already?
• This topic has raised some concerns with
teachers. As a genre for study its an are that
you might not know too much about
• Do you guys know much about music
magazines ?
• Lets find out!
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10. Music Magazine Genre quiz
Where does the word magazine come from?
How many genres of magazine could you name?
Could you name 10 music magazines?
What does a typical magazine contain?
How confident do you feel about this topic so far?
Could you complete the
information audit ?
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11. Find Someone Who...
Take one statement from the list.
Find out how many people in your class this
statement is true for.
Keep a tally or a list of names and think of a
way to present your findings to the class.
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12.  To analyse genre and conventions
 To explore music listening habits (of the
class and wider community)
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13. Homeowork / Questions
1. For homework YOU NEED TO BUY 1 MUSIC
MAGAZINE (choose your genres)
2. Ask 5 people to describe their music listening habits
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