Your revision/preparation for the Module 1 re-sit in January should be...
- Revision of MIGRAIN - key questions to ask, keywords/glossary .
- Read through all Module 1 class notes, practices and handouts.
- Re-read Module 1 revision pack, focusing especially on the print info/examples.
- Timed practice - MIGRAIN analysis of a range of print texts...
- film posters (of different genres/decades, using imdb & clicking on posters in the sidebar)
- tabloid & broadsheet newspaper front & back pages (use del.ici.ous links to find them)
- magazine & newspaper adverts (you actually need to buy a few here!)
- front covers of magazines (again, different genres; & see this article that analyzes teenage mags)
- CD, DVD & video game covers (try Amazon for examples)
- paperback book covers (again, try Amazon)
It is vital that you practice under exam conditions - spend 15 minutes annotating/planning and then one hour writing your answer.
If you are short for time then you can always just do the 15-minute MIGRAIN note-taking exercise on some days but try to do this as often as possible in the run-up to the exam (every day?).
For homework over the holiday, you must complete at least three of these practice exams and post them up on your Module 6 blogs. Failure to do so will mean we will not pay for any further re-sits you wish to take. Deadline for this is January 7th 2008.
Please post up as comments on here a record of the practice you have done - it will be useful for people to share ideas about what texts are good to try, where you can get links to them online, and an opportunity to ask Macguffin any questions about any of the Key Concepts. Also, your teacher will be alerted when you've finished a timed essay and you can get some feedback on it.
And don' t forget - you can bring in any hand-written timed essays during the one and a half weeks when we return after Xmas to show to your teachers before the exam on Wednesday January 16th at 1.30pm. ARRIVE at least 20 MINUTES EARLY!!
Finally, there is a compulsory REVISION CLASS next week - on Tuesday 18th December at 3.25pm - go to DF05.
If you are short for time then you can always just do the 15-minute MIGRAIN note-taking exercise on some days but try to do this as often as possible in the run-up to the exam (every day?).
For homework over the holiday, you must complete at least three of these practice exams and post them up on your Module 6 blogs. Failure to do so will mean we will not pay for any further re-sits you wish to take. Deadline for this is January 7th 2008.
Please post up as comments on here a record of the practice you have done - it will be useful for people to share ideas about what texts are good to try, where you can get links to them online, and an opportunity to ask Macguffin any questions about any of the Key Concepts. Also, your teacher will be alerted when you've finished a timed essay and you can get some feedback on it.
And don
Finally, there is a compulsory REVISION CLASS next week - on Tuesday 18th December at 3.25pm - go to DF05.
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