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 * ===[[image:lord-of-the-flies-novel-study:skin_32101.jpg width="191" height="289"]]=== || ==//Skin //is one of the most moving stories to emerge from apartheid South Africa. ==

Sandra Laing is a black child born in the 1950s to white Afrikaners who are unaware of their black ancestry.
==Her parents are rural shopkeepers serving the local black community, and lovingly bring her up as their ‘white’ little girl. But at the age of ten, Sandra is driven out of white society. == ==//Skin// is the story of Sandra’s thirty-year journey from rejection to acceptance and from betrayal to reconciliation as she struggles to define her place in a changing world and ultimately triumph against all odds. == ||

Use these Links for your reference during this unit:

 * ===** [|Official Website] ** ===
 * ===** [|Film Education Skin Study Guide] ** ===
 * ===** [|Metro Magazine Study Guide] ** ===

__ **TASK ONE ** __ **The Genre of Bio pics **

Your study guide notes provide a good overview as to what the biopic genre entails.

After watching SKIN read the following articles and note down the differences between the film and the reality experienced by Sandr Laing, remembering that Biopics choose to highlight some aspects of a person's life and avoid others.

Why do you think that that certain parts of Sandra's life were emphasised and others not? Put you answer into a post on this discussion board - remember to think about it, make it interesting, ask questions and answer some!


 * [|The Guardian Newspaper]
 * [|The Times]

__<span style="color: #ff0006; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">TASK 2 __ <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Discussion Questions

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">In groups of 4, divide into two groups.

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Group 1 is to read

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">* The director's notes from the SKIN Film study guide

<span style="color: #ff00dc; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Group 2 is to read

* The actress' notes from the actress who plays Sandra <span style="color: #ff0006; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">After reading your notes, discuss the discussion questions with your partner. Whilst discussing your questions, you need to record your discussion in Audacity (open this program on your computer). Once your discussion is recorded you need to export your recording:

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">*File <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">*Export as MP3 (find this open in the save as bar down the bottom) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">* Save to your English folder

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Together in your group of 4 create a new WIKI page and call it SKIN Discussion (your names). Upload your recording as a file to this new page (upload both recordings). Then listen to the other group's discussion and take some notes on their discussion on a new page in ONENOTE under the name skin discussion.