Week 1

Work Covered

The following is what we covered this week. You need to ensure you make notes on the activities, what you did in your group, other groups work and comment on effects achieved.

“Create a still-Image entitled ‘Punishment’ in pairs
- Add a movement and a sound to this image

DISCUSS — MODERN DAY FORMS OF PUNISHMENT
- What are they? Are they effective methods? What should punishment consist of?

Read description of a hanging and workshop

- Create a stylized scene using movement and sound that expresses the horror of hanging

Discuss — how have attitudes towards punishment changed since the days of hanging?

Extension activity
- The relationship between spectator and victim — an internal monologue — why were hangings public? Why did people go to watch hangings?
Discuss punishment in relation to Subject Matter / Historical context of “Our Country’s Good”

Punishment varies according to social context or the rule of any given society. Punishment therefore changes/varies from culture to culture

Our modern-day perception of the ‘purpose’ of punishment is to ‘reform’ the criminal

The justice system is central to the ‘subject matter’ / themes of “Our Country’s Good”
Read worksheet — 1789 — ‘Crime in Georgian England’

Improvised debate on punishment representative of contemporary crime theorists of 1780’s on which the officer characters are based.
- Split into three groups
- Each group must take a ‘philosophy’ (even if you disagree with it)
- Each member of the groups takes a playing card
- If you have a high number or picture card you passionately believe in your chosen philosophy
- A lower card means you may be swayed by other arguments.”