[B] How have these categories fared?
- Business
- Literature
- Showbiz
- Sport
- Politics
[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.
Main activity
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
- Supports
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
the environment
Extension activity
Use the questionnaires on students in other groups.
Plenary
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?
Teachers' Background
- 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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