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Preparing to Study

Preparing to Study. English Language/Literature Literature and Media. Your lessons will be …. Taught by specialist staff with degrees in the relevant subjects Varied in style and include a variety of activities Focused on you being an independent learner The springboard into wider reading

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Preparing to Study

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  1. Preparing to Study English Language/Literature Literature and Media

  2. Your lessons will be… • Taught by specialist staff with degrees in the relevant subjects • Varied in style and include a variety of activities • Focused on you being an independent learner • The springboard into wider reading • Interesting and include relevant examples and case studies

  3. The skills you will need/use

  4. You can expect the following outside of school work… • Exam questions practice • Wider reading/textral reading from a wide range of sources • Research tasks • Drafting and completion of coursework • Essays

  5. The sort of things you will learn about… • Literature *World War I Poetry, prose and drama * Love through the ages • Lang/Lit * Detective Fiction A range of texts – focussing on the theme of food! • Media * Codes of conventions Different media artefacts Political and social economy of the mass media.

  6. You can use these qualifications for/to • Teaching • Journalism • Lawyer • Accountancy • Television production • Publishing/editing • Writing • Presenting

  7. The equipment you need is… • Bring relevant Texts to each lesson • Memory stick • Folders • Highlighters • Pens/pencils • Dividers for areas in folders • Revision cards • Internet Access

  8. To prepare for the A Level Lit/Lang you could: • Read… • The Guardian/Broadsheets • BBC Good Food/Olive Detective Fiction • The Big Sleep • Edgard Allen Poe’s short stories Watch… Detective Fiction ‘The Big Sleep’; other detective films Keep up to date on… Food writing General works of literature Any reading

  9. To prepare for the A Level Literature you could: • Watch… • Regeneration • Birdsong • Black Adder • Journey’s End • Any WW1 Read… Anything by: Wilfred Owen, S Sassoon, Thomas Hardy Anything related to WW1 Keep up to date on… WW1 letters, diaries, female writing of the 20th Century

  10. To prepare for the A Level Media you could: Watch… Documentaries British/European comedies/series Movies from Film Noir • Read… • An introduction to AS Media for WJEC • www.Englishbiz website • Media Guardian section on Monday • Observer on Sunday Keep up to date on… Current issues/events within the media and ownership of different media institutions

  11. The advice we would offer is.. • READ! AND ENJOY READING • INDEPENDENT STUDY • CATCH UP ON MISSED WORK • TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR OWN LEARING • BE ORGANISED!

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