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Starting a new school year in English is always equal parts stressful and exciting. Learning a bunch of new names, hoping you’ve hit the great-student jackpot, figuring out the dynamics, learning all about them… the first few weeks are busy and exhausting, but we all know that if we start out right, we can make life much easier for ourselves in the long run!

The Giver by Lois Lowry is a Utopian text, centred around a teenage boy called Jonas who lives in a highly regulated world free of emotions, violence and ugliness. People are assigned jobs, life partners and children. While his world seems safe and attractive, at first, it is not long before readers begin to see cracks in the carefully curated façade of life in the colony and begin to realise that there are costs involved in keeping life so seemingly perfect.

Studying a film is one of those things that the kids just love and look forward to during the school year. Keeping it enjoyable, while still covering all your bases and getting them to good depth of film knowledge for responding tasks, is imperative. Here are some ideas to think about when planning How to Study a Film: