Pre-film context research activities
Watch the videos by clicking on the linked text below – these videos will give you contextual knowledge to understand more about the communities that live in the ‘banlieues’ in Paris and also about how the film was received when it was released.
See the links on the Edusites Girlhood main page to YouTube videos.
- The Guardian Gritty Teen Life
- YouTube
- Roger Ebert Interview Black Women's Lives Matter
- Life Frances - Overview and Battleplan
The worksheets
- There are a series of worksheets to enable students to meaningfully engage with the film and ultimately prepare them for the exam.
- The worksheets have been designed to be used in sequence. The purpose of each of the worksheets is explored below.
- Not all worksheets need to be completed for each film - the worksheets relevant to the assessment foci for this film are identified below.
Worksheet 1
Film note making is to record descriptive notes of the film, track the journey of a nominated main character and gather textual evidence of the impact of the micro-elements of film language for use later in the cycle.
Recommended – track characters of Marieme and Lady Assa: consider their characters’ starting points, end points and what they each learn on their journey and how they learnt it. By the end of the film, what has each of them…
