Showing posts with label Arts and Culture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Arts and Culture. Show all posts
Thursday, 16 January 2014
Celebrity Privacy
L/O: to refine exam technique for 18 mark style questions by using the PEEL writing technique to enable you to reach your target grades
TASK 2 WORK SHEET
MARK SCHEME
Thursday, 9 January 2014
Celebs v Privacy
L/O: to refine exam technique for 18 mark style questions by using the PEEL writing technique to enable you to reach your target grades
Starter:
Match the celeb to the 2013 news story
Mark Scheme:
Level 5: (PEEL)
Starter:
Match the celeb to the 2013 news story
Todays Question:
Last year, the phone hacking scandal was ‘big’ news within the celebrity world, with lots of talk about the invasion of celebrity’s private lives.
However, with the introduction of reality tv, many celebrities are now made famous through the media.
Explain the advantages and disadvantages of the media's involvement in celebrities lives.
In your answer, you might want to talk about:
- Promotion; for example their latest film/single etc.
- Relationships & families
- Actions they take in their private lives e.g. hobbies
- as well as your own ideas.
Include 2 PEELs for advantages and 2 PEELs for disadvantages, and a PEEL for your own opinion in conclusion.
18 marks available
Level 5: (PEEL)
- A well-argued discussion, using stimulus or own ideas effectively showing understanding and evaluation.
- A variety of points are discussed showing understanding.
- Text will be readable and spelling, grammar & punctuation almost faultless.
Level 4: (PEE)
- A developed answer with good attempt to use stimulus material or own ideas, showing clear understanding and evaluation.
- Text will generally be legible and spelling, grammar and punctuation will show considerable accuracy.
Level 3: (PE)
- A reasonable answer with some attempt to use stimulus matieral and/or own ideas, but lacking understanding and knowledge.
- Examples used but explained
- Text will generally be legible and spelling, grammar and punctuation will show reasonable accuracy.
Level 2: (P)
- A limited answer with little use of stimulus or own ideas.
- Answer is unclear and example not used.
- Text may have occasional problems of understanding and spelling, grammar and punctuation will be fairly accurate.
Level 1:
- A very basic answer with limited knowledge.
- No examples used
- Text will be difficult to read and spelling, grammer and punctuation may be inaccurate to cause problems with understanding.
Thursday, 10 October 2013
Should the England football team only have English players?
Pundits are fighting over who should be allowed to join the national football team. No foreign players should play for England, says midfielder Jack Wilshere – but who counts as foreign?
BBC Sport articles:
QUESTIONS:
- Should footballers always play for the country where they were born?
- Does your national football team deserve your support? Why?
TASKS:
- How do we define geographical identity? Which is most important: neighbourhood, town or city, region, nation, continent or planet?
- Write a definition of the term 'English', being as precise as you can.
Tuesday, 16 July 2013
Thursday, 27 June 2013
Glastonbury in numbers
As Glastonbury gets under way this weekend, we took a statistical snapshot of the UK's biggest and brightest music festival.
There have been 82 headline acts on the main stage, which took on its distinctive pyramid shape at the second festival in 1971. Van Morrison, Elvis Costello, The Cure and Coldplay hold the joint record for number of headline appearances with three each. Six main stage headline acts have pulled out - The Kinks (1970), Red Hot Chili Peppers (1993), The Stone Roses (1995) Stevie Winwood (1997), Kylie Minogue (2005) and U2 (2010).
Festival-goers at the first Glastonbury in 1970 enjoyed free entry and were given a free pint of milk on arrival.
The 1970 festival saw a modest gathering of 1,500 people, who witnessed a performance from T-Rex.
This grew to 12,000 in 1971, but the festival was not held again until 1978, when 500 held a small impromptu event.
From 1979, it became a three-day affair, and attendance increased year by year until passing the 100,000 mark in 1998.
During the 1980s and early 90s, Glastonbury attracted large numbers of new age travellers, but as the festival grew, its dynamic shifted. Free admissions ended, ticket prices rose steadily, and fences were made higher.
The festival is now considered the largest greenfield festival in the world. All 135,000 tickets for 2013 sold out in 1 hour 40 minutes.
Friday, 24 May 2013
What will we be studying?
Throughout the General Studies course, we will be exploring 4 main areas, these are:
- Politics and Economics
- Social and Ethics
- Science and Technology
- Arts and Culture
We will look at how material that covers these areas, from recent and up to date news stories, to organisations involved and how they work. All relevant information and material will be posted to this blog to begin discussions and research building.
Got anything interesting to add, let your teacher know and they can blog it.
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