Product Overview
The all-new Mother and Son is back in the continuing misadventures of the ever mischievous, occasionally muddled Maggie (Denise Scott), who runs rings around her neurotic thirty-something stay-at-home son, Arthur (Matt Okine). While he’s desperate to get his life back on track, Maggie will seemingly do anything to make sure that never happens, much to the delight of his high-achieving, selfish sister, Robbie (Angela Nica Sullen).
Curriculum Links:
Season 2 of Mother and Son has relevance to the learning areas of:
- English
- Media/Film Studies
- Health and Physical Education
It can also be linked to the General Capabilities of:
- Literacy
- Critical and Creative Thinking
- Personal and Social Capability
- Ethical Understanding
This study guide examines the following topics:
- Ageing
- Dementia (including Alzheimer’s disease)
- Internet scamming – targeting the aged
- Family and adult intergenerational relationships
- What is a sitcom, and what is a comedy?
- Comedy as a vehicle for raising health issues: e.g. vaping, deafness, bowel cancer checks
- Narrative elements: seeding, foreshadowing, delayed jokes, running jokes, cause and effect
- Film/media analysis of selected sequences
- Creating a range of illustrative and written material through understanding, synthesising and adapting information derived from the film and further reading
