AS Comms - Groups

 In-group & out-group formation

Asch conformity experiment

Sherif's Robber Cave Study - group conflict

AS Lit: The April Challenge

A2 LangLit - final advice for the coursework - Part 2

Coursework deadline: Wednesday March 23rd 2016
9am - 12pm; 1E3

Remember that when you submit the final essay, you must also submit:

• your first draft
• the extracts/poems you have used for your essay - these can be annotated

1. Look again at your opening paragraph. Remember how crucial this is for setting up your argument. A reminder of what AQA say about this:

Highlight your own thesis. Does it narrow  down the parameters of what you are going to explore from the question? Does it give your essay a strong direction to move on from? Does the rest of your essay actually refer back to the thesis and develop an argument? Are you using topic sentences to hold your argument together?

2. Run through your essay with 2 differently coloured highlighters, identifying the parts of your essay that are about Blake's poetry and the parts of the essay which are about Death of a Salesman. Make sure that your essay is evenly balanced between the two & that you are rotating between the two texts.

3. Run through your essay again with a highlighter - this time, identify all of the moments where you make a comparative point, even if just briefly. Look closely at any sustained parts of your essay where there are no comparisons. Have you missed any opportunities?

4. Re-read your essay, focusing on your use of terminology. Are you demonstrating a wide vocabulary? Is your use of technical terms precise and accurate? Are you using literary & linguistic terminology? Are you using discourse analysis (where appropriate)?

5. Now think about context. Remember that context is measured in all sorts of ways. Have you contextualised the extracts from DOS that you are writing about? The poems you have chosen? The quotations you have selected? Where appropriate, have you embedded social, historical and literary context within your arguments?

Finally - a reminder of what you are being assessed on:

A2 Lang Lit - final advice for the coursework - Part 1

Coursework deadline: Wednesday March 23rd 2016
9am - 12pm; 1E3

Remember that when you submit the final essay, you must also submit:

• your first draft
• the extracts/poems you have used for your essay - these can be annotated

Basic checklist:

• Your name on every page
• Title/question at the top of page 1
• Page numbers
• Writers' names spelled correctly 
• Names of texts (always in full - no abbreviations) differentiated through use of italics, bold or '  ', with capital letters in the right place
• Verse quoted as verse, using / where the line break should be                              ('... so I said/Hush Tom never mind it')
• Single spaced; font size 12
• Word count at end - excluding quotations (yes - you will need to count!)
• Proofread carefully and run a spell check
• Blake's poetry = reader; Miller's drama = audience

AS Literature - poems we have studied so far (11th March)

AS Comms - How to finish your Moviemaker & turn it into a film

In order to 'finish' your Moviemaker so that it becomes a single movie file (which is what you will submit), you need to go through the following process:

1. Make sure your MM project is definitely complete - watch it through from start to finish, checking that your voiceover synchs with the images, that nothing is clipped off, and that you have faded your audio in and out so that your transitions are smooth.

2. When you are 100% happy, select the 'Save Movie' tab on the far right of the toolbar (below) & select 'Recommended for this project'.

3. Choose your Comms folder (on your student drive) as the destination for the file.

4. Click 'Save' and then a progress bar (see below) will appear mapping the progress of your project being converted into a movie file. Depending on how busy the network is / how big your project is, this can take quite a long time. It usually takes 5 - 10 minutes but can take 30 mins.

You then need to copy your movie onto your usb for the submission of the coursework (keep a copy on your student drive!)

AS Literature - revision notes on the poems

I stumbled across this English revision blog, which includes notes on the poems we are studying (written by students). You might find it useful - especially to catch up if you have missed a poem or two.