1. Starter Identify the films/media that we watched during the course last year. SectionMediaIssue Believing in God Matters of life & death Marriage & the Family Community Cohesion

2. Catholic Teaching What is Religious Freedom? The right to practise your religion and change your religion. Religious freedom is of paramount value in that it recognizes that an essential element of human dignity is the freedom to direct our actions in the light of reason and conscience What is Religious Pluralism? Accepting all religions as having an equal right to coexist

3. Specification How two television and/or radio programmes and/or films about religion may affect a person’s attitude to belief in God==Believing in God How an issue arising from this section has been presented in one form of the media, for example in a television or radio programme, or in a film, or in the national press; including whether the treatment was fair to religious beliefs and religious people==Matters of life & death How an issue arising from this section has been presented in one form of the media, for example in a television or radio programme, or in a film, or in the national press; including whether the treatment was fair to religious beliefs and religious people ==Marriage & the Family How an issue arising from this section has been presented in one form of the media, for example in a television or radio programme, or in a film, or in the national press; including whether the treatment was fair to religious beliefs and religious people ==Religion & Community Cohesion

4. Media Questions Topic 201020112012201320142015 Believing in God © Explain with examples, how tv programmes and/or radio programmes and or films might affect a person’s attitude to belief in God (8) (d) ‘The Media helps people to believe in God’ (6) © Explain how tv programmes and/or radio programmes and/or films might affect a person’s belief in God (8) Matters of Life & Death (b) Do you think that the media should be allowed to criticise what religions say about matters of life and death? (4) (d) The media should not be allowed to criticise what religion says about matters of life and death (6) (b) Do you think that the media should be able to criticise what religions say about matters of life and death? (4) Marriage & the Family © How an issue arising from this section (marriage and the family) has been presented in one form of media (8) Religion & Community Cohesion © Explain how an issue from this section was presented in one form of media (8)

5. The Media and Marriage & the Family (b)Do you think that the media treat Christian beliefs on marriage and the family fairly? Give two reasons for your point of view. (4) (d) ‘The Media should not be allowed to criticise what religion says about marriage and the family’. In your answer you should refer to RC Christianity. (i)Do you agree. Give reasons for your opinion (3 marks) (ii)Explain why some people may disagree with you (3 marks) (c) Explain how an issue arising from this section was presented in one form of media (8) Or Either Marriage Keywords: adultery, civil partnership, cohabitation, contraception, faithfulness, homosexuality, nuclear family, pre-marital sex, procreation, promiscuity, re-constituted family, re-marriage, annulment

6. The Media and Community Cohesion (b)Do you think television or radio programmes or films treat religious people and beliefs on matters of community cohesion fairly ? Give two reasons for your point of view. (4) (d) ‘The media does not treat religions fairly on issues of community cohesion ’. In your answer you should refer to RC Christianity. (i)Do you agree. Give reasons for your opinion (3 marks) (ii)Explain why some people may disagree with you (3 marks) (c) Explain how an issue arising from this section (religion and community cohesion) was presented in one form of media. Community Cohesion Keywords: community cohesion, discrimination, ethnic minority, sexism, interfaith marriages, multi-ethnic society, multi-faith society, prejudice, racial harmony, racism, religious freedom, religious pluralism. Or Either

7. Panorama and Community Cohesion How could you improve this answer with connectives and key words In the television documentary programme Panorama the issue of community cohesion in Blackburn Lancashire was examined. It was called ‘White Flight’. Community cohesion in Blackburn is not strong because Blackburn is a town in which is divided into two: the British white live in certain parts of town; British Asians (mainly Muslims) live in other parts. Some schools are predominantly white, others are mainly Asian. Immigrants from Pakistan and India came to Blackburn over 50 years ago but have not fully integrated into the town. Some younger Muslims are more religious than their parents whilst many English people are worried that their culture and way of life is being lost. Marriages between Christians and Muslims are very rare