English Career Resources

Key Stage 4: Stereotypes

(Career Education Guidance Objective 4)

This unit allows students to analyse their thinking behind their attitudes to learning and work. It allows the exploration of stereotypes and influences of pressure such as the media, peers and relatives in their perspective. This work can be tied into any scheme of work on any texts as ideas about careers and jobs are found in most KS 4 activities – Atticus' job in To Kill a Mockingbird, the life of the ranch workers in Of Mice and Men, even the juxtaposition of the architects and dustbin men in Two Scavengers in a Truck, Two Beautiful People in a Mercedes (AQA Anthology for English). Equally it can work as a stand-alone lesson and be assessed for En1 (Speaking and Listening) for the Explore, Analyse, Imagine strand.