Year 11 – Post Easter Reading / Research

Year 11 – post Easter reading / research

A particular well done to those of you who have been maintaining a study structure at home with the help of your teachers. It is vital that you do not allow there to be a 6 months’ gap in your learning and academic studies – resuming these in September after such a long gap will be very difficult otherwise. In due course, the post-16 institutions you have applied to will offer information on transition and induction; if you have any questions about specific courses, they should be able to answer them.

For obvious reasons, most teachers will now stop setting specific revision-related tasks, although there may be a few subjects (like Citizenship) that will require you to finish the course. Instead, we have compiled a list of subject-related reading and research intended to help bridge the gap to your post-16 courses (note that these are general suggestions, so please don’t go out spending lots of money on them!). This could be a golden time for you to acquire a range of background knowledge and information that ordinarily you might not have time for – see this highly unusual period as an opportunity!

If you felt you wanted to go further and write up some of your findings, the table on the last page offers some advice on the process and possible formats.

Remember, you are still a TK student, so do ask relevant teachers if you need any further advice.

Best of luck!

Mr Patrick

Subject Suggested reading / research Art  'Art in Theory 1900-2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideas', Charles Harrison and Paul Wood  'Great Paintings - The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained' - Dorling Kindersley

Many galleries have online exhibitions – take a look:  Student Art Guide www.studentartguide.com  The British Museum www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk  Victoria and Albert Museum www.vam.ac.uk  Hayward Gallery www.hayward-gallery.org.uk  National Gallery www.nationalgallery.org.uk  National Portrait Gallery www.npg.org.uk  Tate Britain/ Modern www.tate.org.uk

Biology http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b043wvt9 Books:  The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, by Oliver Sacks  Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole: Extraordinary Journeys into the Human Brain, by Allan Ropper  A Short History of Nearly Everything, by Bill Bryson  Bad Science, by Ben Goldacre  The Language of Genes: Solving the Mysteries of Our Genetic Past, Present and Future, by Steve Jones  Sapiens: A brief History of Human Kind, by Yuval Noah Harari  'Genome - Autobiography of a Species' - Matt Ridley  'The Origin of Species' - Charles Darwin 1

 'A Brief History of Everyone who ever lived' - Adam Rutherford  'What Evolution Is' - Ernst Mayr Chemistry  'Elements: A Visual Representation of Every Known Atom in the Universe' - Theodore Gray  'The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements' by Sam Kean

The Royal Society of Chemistry is an organisation bringing together Chemists around the UK and worldwide. The news section of their website contains short breakdowns of newly published research that will interest and inspire you to read further and give the context to what you will be studying at A level. https://www.rsc.org/news-events/ Computer  'The Computer Book: From the Abacus to Artificial Intelligence, 250 Milestones in the History Science of Computer Science (Sterling Milestones)' - Garkinkel and Grunspan  Trigger Happy: The inner life of videogames - Stephen Poole.  Accidental Empires - Robert X Cringely.

Websites:  http://www.tnmoc.org/  http://www.theregister.co.uk/

Watch the ‘Imitation Game’ and learn about the famous Alan Turing and his attempts in helping to crack the Enigma code during World War II. Drama  'The Empty Space' - Peter Brook  'An Actor Prepares' – Stanislavski  'The Cambridge Introduction to Theatre Studies' - Christopher B Balme  'The Routledge Introduction to Theatre and Performance Studies'  'Key Concepts in Drama and Performance' - Kenneth Pickering  'Oxford Illustrated History of Theatre' - John Russell Brown

Cirencester College texts: A-Level Drama & Theatre Studies · Stenham, Polly (2008) That Face, Faber & Faber [SET TEXT] · Buchner, Georg (Translated by Mackendrick, John) (1979) Woyzeck, Methuen [SET TEXT] · Machon, Josephine (2019) The Punchdrunk Encyclopaedia, Routledge [SET PRACTITIONER] · Merlin, Bella (2007) The Complete Stanislavski Toolkit, Nick Hern Books Ltd BTEC Performing Arts · Merlin, Bella (2007) The Complete Stanislavski Toolkit, Nick Hern Books Ltd · Chekhov, Michael (2002) TO THE ACTOR: On The Technique of Acting, Routledge · Hodge, Alison (Editor) (2000) Twentieth Century Actor Training, Routledge · Artaud, Antonin (2017) The Theatre and Its Double, ALMA Books Ltd · Graham, Scott & Hoggett, Steven (2009) The Frantic Assembly Book of Devising Theatre, Routledge Food Books:  Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking - Samin Nosrat  The Flavour Thesaurus - Niki Segnit  The Science of Cooking: Every Question Answered to Perfect your Cooking - Stuart Farrimond  How Food Works: The Facts Visually Explained - DK  The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science – J Kenji Lopez-Alt  The Science and Technology of Foods - RK Proudlove  Food and Nutrition - Anita Tull  Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do about It - Anna Lappe  Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal - Tristram Stuart

On-line resources 2

 https://www.foodafactoflife.org.uk/ - an online learning hub for teachers and students alike. Big focus on food science and nutrition.  https://www.nutrition.org.uk/ - the British Nutrition Foundation Website with lots of information about diets and healthy eating for all types of consumers.  https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/design-and-technology-gcse-food-preparation- and-nutrition/zvjh8xs - BBC Teach video playlist  https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ - visit the Home Economics: Food & Nutrition section.  https://www.ifst.org/lovefoodlovescience - food science hub with lots of experiments  https://www.bbc.co.uk/food - recipes, contemporary food stories and TV clips  https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/ - inspirational recipes and cookery tips  https://www.deliciousmagazine.co.uk/ - food and travel  https://www.olivemagazine.com/ - for more upmarket dining and hospitality  https://cookieandkate.com/ - lifestyle blog featuring articles on food journalism and photography

Youtube:  YouTube - British Nutrition Foundation  YouTube - Jamie’s Food Tube  YouTube – EpiCurious  YouTube - Bon Appetit  YouTube - Sorted Food  YouTube - Binging with Babish  YouTube - Tasty by Buzzfeed French Moving from GCSE to ‘A’ level study will involve having a background knowledge of France and French speaking (Francophone) countries.

You would need to be able to formulate and express your own opinions on global/social issues in the UK/France/French speaking countries, such as: Equality, Immigration, Politics, Environment, Technology, Poverty, Homelessness, Unemployment, Human Rights, Religion, Culture, Music, Art and Literature. Then of course, be able to express and analyse opinions in French. Then be confident with grammar and tenses, speaking, listening, reading and writing towards translation and summary of what you hear and read. You will also study a literary text and a film or two literary texts (but this depends on where you are going to study, as the centre chooses the text(s)/film to study).

The following tasks will give you a ‘head start’:  Do some background reading on political figures such as François Fillon, Marie Le Pen.  Do some research into a French film, director, author, or literary text. You could start with one listed in the AQA A’ level specification here: https://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/languages/as-and-a-level/french-7652/subject- content/works  https://fr.maryglasgowplus.com/students/features/ - magazine Chez Nous go to - dernières actualités - to read news articles and listen to the audio at the same time. You can also subscribe to the magazine.  https://www.1jour1actu.com/infos-animees/ - news website with colourful short videos about many different current affairs topics.  http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/french/ read news articles, watch the news/ TV in French etc - also Bitesize AQA GCSE French to revise and practise grammar and tenses.  www.zut.org.uk Free after 4pm and at weekends- range of year 12 and 13 listening, reading, grammar and vocab resources on a variety of topics.  https://languagesonline.org.uk/Hotpotatoes/frenchindex.html scroll down to Grammar to practise grammar and tenses, scroll down again to AS Resources.  https://www.lemonde.fr/ Read French newspapers online. 3

English  Any text by David Crystal Language  'Eats Shoots and Leaves' - Lynn Truss  ‘English Language for Beginners’-Michelle Lowe  'Mother Tongue: The English Language'- Bill Bryson  ‘How English Works: A Grammar Practice Book’- M Swann & C Walter  Watch: 'The Adventure of English’ – Melvyn Bragg http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/adventure-of-english/  Read “i love english language" (blog):http://aggslanguage.wordpress.com/  Radio 4 - Word of Mouth programmes - see BBC Sounds. English Check the syllabus for set texts to read. More generally: Literature  ‘An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory’- Nicholas Royle and Andrew Bennett (Longman)  ‘An Introduction to English Poetry’- James Fenton (Penguin)  ‘Consciousness and the Novel’- David Lodge (Penguin)  ‘The Art of Fiction’- David Lodge  ‘Seven Basic Plots: Why we tell Stories’- C. Brooker Geography  Bill Bryson, ‘A Short History of Nearly Everything’  Harm de Blij, ‘Why Geography Matters, More than Ever’  Patrick French [2011]: India. A Portrait - Allen Lane  Ma Jian [2009]: Beijing Coma - Vintage  Eric Schlosser [2002]: Fast Food Nation: What the All American Meal is Doing to the World - Penguin  Duncan Hewitt [2007}: Getting Rich First – Chatto & Windus  Jonathan Watts [2010]: When a Billion Chinese Jump – Faber & Faber  Joe Bennett [2010]: Where Underpants Come From: From Checkout to Cotton Field – Travels Through the New China – Profile Books.  Mark Edwards [2009]: Hard Rain – Hardrainproject  Richard Wrangham [2010]: Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human – Profile Books  Fred Pearce [2009]: Confessions of an Eco Sinner: Travels to Where My Stuff Comes From – Eden Project Books  Fred Pearce [2007]: When the Rivers Run Dry: What happens When Our Water Runs Out? – Eden Project Books  Fred Pearce [2010] People Quake: Mass Migration, Ageing nations and the Coming Population Crash – Eden Project  Mike Berners-Lee [2010]: How Bad Are Bananas? The Carbon Footprint of Everything – Profile Books  Charles Clover [2005]: The End of the Line. How Overfishing is Changing The World and What We Eat - Ebury Press.  Richard Girling [2005]: Rubbish! Dirt on Our Hands and Crisis Ahead – Eden Project Books  Mark Kurlansky [2009]: The Last Fish Tale - Jonathan Cape  Nicolas Stern: [2009]: A Blueprint for a Safer Planet - Bodley Head  ‘Prisoners of Geography’ – Tim Marshall  Into the Wild – Jon Krakauer (film too)  Touching the Void – Joe Simpson (film too)  Alison Benjamin Brian McCallum – ‘A World Without Bees’

Films & Documentaries:  Blood Diamond  Slumdog Millionaire  Before the Flood  Inconvenient Truth  Any Simon Reeve or David Attenborough documentary https://www.internetgeography.net/wider/ 4

History  SPQR by Mary Beard  The Crusades by Thomas Asbridge  The Norman Conquest by Marc Morris  The World Turned Upside Down by Christopher Hill  Ten days that Shook the World by John Reed  John Guy, Tudor England  D Starkey, The Reign of Henry VIII: Personality and Politics  G Layton, From Bismarck to Hitler  J Laver, Impact of Stalin’s Dictatorship  Josephie Tey's "A Daughter of Time" is a classic illustration of how to research a topic in History.  A History of the World' - Andrew Marr  Anything by Peter Ackroyd  Radio 4 - 'In Our Time' programmes - see BBC Sounds  'A People's Tragedy' - Orlando Figes  'From Blitz to Blair: A New History of Britain Since 1939' -Nick Tiratsoo  Virtual History, Niall Ferguson  Voo Doo Histories, David Aaronovitch  In Defense of History, Richard Evans  Tommy, Richard Holmes  Dynamo, Andy Dougan Maths Prepare for A-level Maths by ensuring your Algebra skills are rock solid! Work through Dr Frost's Full Coverage questions - start with Algebra and move onto Geometry if you can - answers are at the end of each section. www.drfrostmaths.com/sow.php?year=Full%20Coverage%20Revision%20Worksheets&term=GCSE

 '17 equations that changed the world' - Ian Stewart  'The Colossal Book of Mathematics' - Martin Gardner  'What is Mathematics Really?' by Reuben Hersh  'Fermat's Last Theorem: The Story Of A Riddle That Confounded The World's Greatest Minds For 358 Years' - Simon Singh  Why do buses come in threes? – Rob Easterway  Alex’s Adventures in Numberland – Alex Bellos  The Simpsons and their Mathematical Secrets – Simon Singh  Websites:  NRich http://nrich.maths.org/secondary-upper  Mathwire http://mathwire.com/archives/enrichment.html  The History of Maths – Wikipedia  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_mathematics  The History of Maths – Youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy-8lPVKLIo  Decision Maths Videos https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD7FCC5C72E63825D

Music  'The Story of Music' - Howard Goodall  'How Music Works' - John Powell  'How to Read Music in 30 Days: Music Theory for Beginners - with exercises & online audio' - Matthew Ellul Physics The following online sources will give you further insight into the universe:  The Elegant Universe - TV programmme https://www.youtube.com/  Richard Feynman lectures: http://www.vega.org.uk/video/subseries/8

Books:

 'A Brief History of Time' - Stephen Hawking  'The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory' - Brian Greene  'Seven Brief Lessons on Physics' - Carlo Rovelli  Relativity for the Layman  A Positron Named Priscilla  Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey through Parallel Universes  Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character  Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth  Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You: Understanding the Mind-Blowing Building Blocks of the Universe  A Short History of Nearly Everything  Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words

Online Clips / Series  https://www.youtube.com/user/minutephysics  Wonders of the Universe / Wonders of the Solar System – Both available on Netflix as of 17/4/16 – Brian Cox explains the Cosmos using some excellent analogies and wonderful imagery.  http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/ Product  Design for the 21st Century (Icons Series) - Charlotte Fiell and Peter Fiell Design  Thames and Hudson - the eco-design handbook - by Alastair Fuad-Luke.  Design Sketching (ISBN 978-91-976807-0-7) by Erik Olofsson and Klara Sjolen

Online sources  You tube - "Genius of Design"  You tube - "Dieter Rams"  You tube - "Marianne Brandt – Women of the Bauhaus"  You tube – “Charles and Ray Eames – The design genius of Charles + Ray Eames”  You tube – “Philippe Starck – Design discussion on Philippe Starck”  www.dyson.co.uk  http://www.moonsaildesign.com/typography/inspiring-typographic-artists/  http://ilovetypography.com/  http://www.davidcarsondesign.com/  www.dexigner.com  http://designmuseum.org/  http://www.designweek.co.uk/  http://www.designcouncil.org.uk/  http://www.core77.com/  http://www.blueprintmagazine.co.uk/  www.technologystudent.com Religious  'The History of God: 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam' - Karen Armstrong Studies /  'The Alchemist' - Paulo Coelho Philosophy  'Sophie's World' - Jostein Gaarder & Ethics  Books The Puzzle of God - Peter Vardy  The Puzzle of Evil - Peter Vardy  The Puzzle of Ethics - Peter Vardy  The Blind Watchmaker - Richard Dawkins  A little History of Philosophy - Nigel Warburton  The Philosophy Gym by Stephen Law.

https://www.ted.com/talks/alain_de_botton_atheism_2_0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFIyhseYTWg http://www.reasonablefaith.org/god-is-not-dead-yet PE  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryfcUdajPyM - Psychological  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qnY20ezaaQ -Physiological  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hf9CUHsrKcQ - Biomechanics  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84AkiKRc6NE -Socio-Cultural Studies Spanish Moving from GCSE to ‘A’ level study will involve having a background knowledge of Spain and Spanish speaking (Hispanic) countries.

You would need to be able to formulate and express your own opinions on global/social issues in the UK/Spain/Spanish speaking countries, such as: Equality, Immigration, Politics, Environment, Technology, Poverty, Homelessness, Unemployment, Human Rights, Religion, Culture, Music, Art and Literature. Then of course, be able to express your opinions in Spanish. Then be confident with grammar, speaking, listening, reading and writing towards translation and summary of what you hear and read, as well as research a literary text/ film (but this depends on where you are going to study, as the centre chooses the text/film to study).

The following tasks will give you a ‘head start’:  Do some background reading on political figures such as Franco, Fidel Castro and the issues surrounding Catalonia and País Vasco etc.  Do some research into a Spanish film, author, or literary text – you could start with one listed in the AQA A’ level specification here: https://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/languages/as-and-a-level/spanish-7692/subject- content/works  https://es.maryglasgowplus.com/students/features magazine El Sol- go to últimas noticias- to read news articles and listen to the audio at the same time. You can also subscribe to the magazine.  http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish/ - read news articles/watch the news/TV in Spanish etc – also Bitesize AQA GCSE Spanish to revise and practise grammar and tenses.  https://languagesonline.org.uk/Hotpotatoes/spanishindex.html - scroll down to Grammar to practise grammar and tenses, scroll down again to AS Resources  http://oye.languageskills.co.uk Free after 4pm and at weekends- range of year 12 and 13 listening, reading, grammar and vocab resources on a variety of topics.  https://elpais.com/ read Spanish newspapers online.

Universal Project Guide (Tom Sherrington)

Choose the Think about something you are personally interested in OR something that you know you need to know more subject area about:  A scientific discovery or phenomenon? A scientist? An inventor?  A period of history? An ancient civilisation? A big event or political issue?  A person with an interesting life story? A work of art or an artist?  An interesting place in the world? A book or film?  An aspect of nature? Plants and animals, interesting environments and ecosystems?  A debate or issue that is important to you?  Your personal hobby or interests: music, sport, fashion, technology…. Anything!

Start with Use a mixture of books and online research. It’s better to use focused search engines: background ● This is a great search tool: https://www.researchify.co.uk/ reading and ● Look at https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize for great video clips and information searching. ● Wikipedia is an obvious place to start for lots of projects but take care not to get bogged down in

details you don’t understand: https://www.wikipedia.org/ ● Use Youtube as a search tool. https://www.youtube.com/ e.g type in “How did dinosaurs become extinct?’ or ‘Who was Frida Kahlo?’

Check to see if you think the material feels like it’s aimed at the right age-group as best you can.

Zoom in Once you have read around a subject, frame your project as a question or series of questions. This helps to give further: your project a sense of purpose and achievement: Give your project a title that is a question like one of these.

Set yourself ● Who was Nelson Mandela and what did he achieve? a series of ● Where was Mesopotamia and what was life like there? questions or ● How does the International Space Station work and what does it do? challenges: ● What are the 10 most endangered species and how can we protect them? ● Who discovered electricity and how did they do it? ● What is the Turner Prize and who has won it? ● How has the Olympic Games changed in the last 100 years? ● How have computers/calculators/bicycles/cars/shoes/food changed over time?

Collect your Before you write anything, collect lots of information. It can be annoying to lose things after you find them so evidence make lots of notes, collect website links in your favourites, cut pictures out of magazines or download them on and your computer or phone. A good project is likely to have a nice mix or images and text so try to create a visual information record of the story you will tell, like a scrapbook.

Produce a Decide how to present your information. There are so many possibilities and you can do one or more of them project for the same project: product in ● A newspaper report or magazine article one or more styles ● A personal diary or first person account of your exploration and ideas. ● A report to inform readers about what you found: a booklet or a traditional essay. ● Fact files: Scroll through these examples. Decide what the most important information is and record it for your readers. ● Include a timeline for anything historical ● Include maps, graphs, tables and diagrams. ● Use some technology: make a video or a powerpoint presentation. ● Set up your own blog: it’s easy once you get started. ● Make a piece of work inspired by the research e.g. a piece of art. ● Make it into a scrapbook, folder or booklet using simple paper and pen.