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The Social Network

 

 

The fascinating multi-strand story of how a young man invented the world's biggest social network in his dorm at Harvard, and how others challenged his ownership of it.

 

 

Contents

 

Teaching Guide

 

 

Student Programme

 

 

Introduction

3

 

Introduction

2

 

Suggested Teaching Plan

4

 

After the First Viewing

3

 

After the First Viewing

5

 

Conflict

4

 

Initial Quiz

8

 

Techniques Checklist

5

 

Plot Summary

9

 

Analysing Scene One

7

 

Conflict

10

 

Close Reading Task Sheets

8

 

Scene-by-Scene Commentary

11

 

Narrative Structure

12

 

Analysing Scene 1

31

 

Setting

13

 

Close Reading Task Sheet Answers

34

 

Characterisation Checklist

15

 

Narrative Structure

43

 

Characterisation Tasks & Questions

16

 

Setting – the Basic Facts

46

 

Theme Questions

18

 

Design and Setting

47

 

Styles of Film-making

19

 

Characters and Actors

49

 

Do You Agree?  / Beyond the Film

22

 

Character Question Answers

55

 

Useful Quotations

23

 

Themes – an Approach

57

 

Scene List

25

 

Answers to Theme Questions

58

 

Sound Tracks

27

 

The Screenplay

62

 

Cast and Crew

28

 

Styles of Film-making Answers

63

 

Glossary

30

 

The Direction

65

 

Worksheets

 

 

Sound, Music, Special Effects

66

 

Study Record

2

 

The Critics Love It

67

 

Initial Quiz

3

 

Interesting Trivia

68

 

Plot Outline

4

 

Appendix: Narrative Structure Diagram

69

 

Scene One Analysis

6

 

 

 

 

Scene-by-scene worksheets

9

 

CD Extras include a PowerPoint on filming strategies, an edited screenplay, and many pics from the film.

 

 

 

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