Year 13 Preparing for the Next Phase

Lancashire Secondary Consultant Team [email protected]

This booklet gives some advice on how students in Year 13 can prepare for the next phase in their education or employment during the school closures as a result of the Corona Virus. The booklet is split into three sections relating to mathematics, English and general advice.

Mathematics Preparing for Mathematics or a mathematics related subject at University

English Preparing for English Literature

General Advice Preparing for study at University

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Mathematics

Whether studying for a mathematics degree or a subject which uses mathematics (any of the sciences, engineering, psychology, medicine, computing, economics…), you need to keep your mind active and your mathematical knowledge and skills fresh.

You could try some of the suggestions below.

1. Make use of any revision materials provided by your college or school 2. Use online lessons such as those available free at Khan Academy 3. Engage in a little additional reading around mathematics such as the free articles available through +plus maths online magazine – some of which may be of particular interest at the moment. • https://plus.maths.org/content/Article • https://plus.maths.org/content/how-can-maths-fight-pandemic • https://plus.maths.org/content/how-best-deal-covid-19 • https://plus.maths.org/content/maths-minute-social-distancing 4. Keep maths fresh and explore links between different mathematical topics https://undergroundmathematics.org/ 5. Or perhaps some puzzles https://plus.maths.org/content/Puzzle 6. Try explaining how and why we use certain methods in algebra, or how certain concepts work etc. to younger siblings. (Teaching someone else really tests your own understanding) 7. Listen to BBC Radio 4's More or Less show. (Previous editions available at (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qshd/episodes/player ). This may be of particular interest to scientists, statisticians and economists. 8. How about watching or listening to a selection of BBC broadcasts about maths and mathematicians. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/collections/mathematics/ 9. Try some TEDtalks a. https://www.ted.com/playlists/189/math_talks_to_blow_your_mind b. https://ed.ted.com/lessons?category=mathematics

Try mixing it up a bit – do a little each day and try a variety of activity types.

For further information please contact Helen Monaghan [email protected]

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Preparation for Continued Study of English

PREPARING FOR ENGLISH LITERATURE AT UNIVERSITY

English Literature is a really interesting and rewarding degree to study. It will give you the opportunity to deepen your study of a variety of literary works from different periods in history, developing your own thoughts and opinions about your reading through discussion and academic writing.

At university, you will undertake a lot of learning independently and will be expected to manage your time well. Therefore, it would be useful to establish good independent habits before you start your course, and also familiarise with key texts from the tradition of English Literature.

Universities will provide you with preparatory course material or ideas about what you should be doing to prepare for your future study and you should focus on preparing for your course as advised by them. Furthermore, sites like the following from Cambridge provide useful preparatory tasks for an English Literature degree: https://www.myheplus.com/post- 16/subjects/english. However, if you need a little more guidance, you might find the ideas below useful.

Some recommended reading lists are attached. There is not an expectation that all texts from the list should be read, rather they provide you with some ideas of what you could try - above all choose texts/tasks that interest you and that you enjoy.

EVERYDAY SET ASIDE YOURSELF A COUPLE OF HOURS TO DO THE FOLLOWING:

1. Broaden your knowledge of literary texts. It would be advantageous to read as many canonical texts as possible (see attached list or university reading list), though also read modern classics too. Use this time to familiarise yourself with texts you have heard of but have never read.

Ask for a reading list from your teacher or college/school, or use the attached lists as a reading guide – you do not need to read them all! Try to read at least substantial text a week (some will take longer!) and a selection of (a couple of poems a week) as well as novels and plays. Remember most classics can be downloaded for free online, and one of the benefits of an eBook is that you can look up words you are unfamiliar with.

Look on book recommendation websites such as https://www.goodreads.com/ to help you decide what to read first/next based on what you have enjoyed in the past.

2. After reading a text – How do I develop my understanding further? a) Create a literature notebook. Make notes with accompanying images on what you have read and the ideas the authors seemed to be conveying. b) Support your critical understanding of texts by reading study guides such as those on sites as follows: https://www.sparknotes.com/ https://www.cliffsnotes.com/ c) Research some of the authors you have enjoyed reading. Make notes about their lives. d) Find out a bit more about the period the texts you have read were written in. The British Library website can really help with this: https://www.bl.uk/learning/online- resources. Find out about the Romantic period and the Victorian era in particular. Make a timeline of the texts you have studied.

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e) Deepen your knowledge of an author's work by challenging yourself to read a number of works by the same author (Austen, Dickens or Shakespeare) or from the same genre (gothic texts). Consider whether these works deal with similar ideas. Add your thoughts to your notebook.

Maybe read a number of authors who were writing in the same time period and consider whether there are any similarities or differences in the ideas they are concerned with e.g. key Victorian novelists, contemporary female authors. Maybe read the British Library literary timeline (https://www.bl.uk/englishtimeline) or the Cambridge Literature timeline (http://libguides.cam.ac.uk/EFLtimelines) to help you identify which authors were contemporaries.

f) Arrange to read the same texts as friends and set a deadline for an online discussion. Take it in turns to think of some questions you all could discuss about the text you have read.

g) You might want to watch some online lectures about the texts you have read. Afterwards, write down any new information you have learnt or any new ideas the lecture has inspired.

You can find interesting lectures on the following websites: Massolit Gresham College

You can also complete some mini-courses on certain literary texts via FutureLearn, or listen to 'In Our Time' BBC radio 4 podcasts such as those on Shakespeare's Life, Shakespeare's Work, and The Romantics.

3. Be knowledgeable about contemporary issues. Regularly read a quality newspaper such as The Guardian, The Independent, The Telegraph, The Times etc. The ‘Comment Is Free’ section of the Guardian can provide food for thought. Also, watch the news daily. Maybe Newsnight and Question Time too.

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OPTIONAL EXTRAS

1. Listen to radio programmes that will broaden your knowledge of texts Regularly listen to a literary radio programme on Radio 4 to give you some ideas about what to read next. You do not have to listen to them all; find one you like from the list below.

Remember to click on the tabs at the top of the page, and listen to archived podcasts as well as live programmes.

A Good Read Famous people talk about their favourite books.

In Our Time Discussion programme about a variety of topics including famous authors and thinkers.

Bookclub James Naughtie talks to acclaimed authors about their best-known novels.

World Book Club Monthly programme that focuses on great world authors past and present.

Poetry Please Famous Liverpudlian poet Roger McGough reads and discuss modern greats and classic poems and poets.

Open Book Programme looking at new fiction and non-fiction with Mariella Frostrup

Front Row Daily arts show that reviews topical plays, novels, films etc. and interviews novelists, playwrights, directors etc.

With Great Famous people read favourite texts aloud, particularly poems.

Pleasure

Look for one-off e.g. Trollope on Jane Austen: programmes about http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0076tq5 authors/genres

Book of the Week/ Daily/ nightly reading of a chosen book

Book at bedtime

Listen to afternoon radio plays – on every day.

2. Read some of the books on the shortlist for international/ national book prizes such as: These books will be very current and might be future classics. - National Short Story Award - Man Booker Prize - Women’s Prize for Literature - The Costa Book Awards - The CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Children’s Book Award

3. Use the internet to help perfect basic skills Consider what areas you would like to work on and see which of these websites might help: - Bristol University – Basic grammar and punctuation exercises - Sussex University – Punctuation Basics - OU Short Grammar Course: English Grammar in Context - OU Short Grammar Course: Grammar Matters - BBC Academic Writing

4. Blog/ tweet about your reading.

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Poetry – READING LIST

This reading list might help to introduce you to some of the most famous poets and poems in English Literature.

It is recommended that you dip in and out of the poems here before you begin your course and also during your course – you certainly do not need to read every single poem on this list in chronological order!

Aim to read a couple of poems a week at least. Copies of these poems can be found easily online.

POETRY – A chronological overview of canonical poets and key poems for study Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) Sonnet 18, 29, 116, 130 John Donne (1572 - 1631) The Good Morrow The Sun Rising (1572- 1637) On My First Son Song: to Celia [“Drink to me only with thine eyes”] Andrew Marvell (1621 - 1678) To His Coy Mistress William Blake (1757 - 1827) A Poison Tree London The Chimney Sweep x2 The Schoolboy The Sick Rose The Tyger Robert Burns (1759 - 1796) Ode to a Mouse Red, Red, Rose (1770 – 1850) Poet Laureate 1843-50 I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud (Daffodils) Upon Westminster Bridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772- 1832) Kubla Khan The Ancient Mariner George Gordon Byron (1788 – 1824) She Walks In Beauty Like the Night We'll Go No More A-roving John Keats (1795 – 1821) La Belle Dame Sans Merci To Autumn Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 – 1861) Sonnet 43: How do I love thee? Sonnet 14: If thou must love me… Sonnet 29: I think of thee… Alfred Tennyson (1809 – 1892) Poet Laureate 1850-1892 The Charge of the Light Brigade The Lady of Shalott (1812 – 1889) Porphyria's Lover The Pied Piper of Hamelin Walt Whitman (1819 – 1892) After the Seaship O Captain! O Captain!

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Emily Dickinson (1830 – 1886) Hope is the Thing with Feathers Nature the Gentlest Mother Christina Rossetti (1830 – 1894) A Birthday Remember When I Am Dead My Dearest Thomas Hardy (1840 – 1928) Neutral Tones The Darkling Thrush Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 – 1889) Binsey Poplars The Caged Skylark The Windhover Rudyard Kipling (1865 – 1936) If The Way Through the Woods W B Yeats (1865 – 1939) The Cloths of Heaven The Lake Isle of Innisfree When You Are Old Walter De La Mere (1873 – 1956) The Listeners or Echo Robert Frost (1874 – 1963) Nothing Gold Can Stay The Road Not Taken Stevie Smith (1902 – 1971) Not Waving But Drowning John Betjemin (1906 -1984) Poet Laureate 1972-1984 On A Portrait of a Deaf Man Slough (1937) W H Auden (1907 – 1946) Funeral Blues Night Mail Refugee Blues Dylan Thomas (1914 – 1953) Do not go gentle into that good night Fern Hill Vernon Scannell (1922 – 2007) A Case of Murder Nettles Thom Gunn (1929-2004) Considering the Snail Still Life Ted Hughes (1930 – 1998) Poet Laureate 1984-1998 Bayonet Charge Hawk Roosting The Thought-Fox Thistles Tractor Wind Chinua Achebe (1930 – 2013) A Mother in a Refugee Camp (1930 – 2017) After the Storm The Fist Sylvia Plath (1932 – 1963) Blackberry Daddy Mushrooms

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Gillian Clarke (1937 - ) The Field Mouse Cold Knapp Lake (1939 – 2013) Blackberry Picking Death of a Naturalist Digging Follower Mid-term Break Storm on the Island John Agard (1949 - ) Checking Out Me History Half-Caste In Times of Peace Listen Mr Oxford Don Grace Nichols (1950 - ) Forest Praise Song for My Mother Maya Angelou (1951 – 2014) Caged Bird Life Doesn't Frighten Me At All Phenomenal Woman Still I Rise Women's Work Imtiaz Dharker (1954 - ) Blessing Moniza Alvi (1954 - ) Presents From My Aunts in Pakistan An Unknown Girl (1955 - ) (Poet Laureate 2009-2019) Ann Hathaway Mrs Tilcher's Class Stealing War Photographer We Remember Your Childhood Well Benjamin Zephaniah (1958 -) No Problem The British We Refugees (1963 - ) (Poet Laureate May 2019+) About His Person Father.. Give Manhunt Mother… November

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NOVELS – READING LIST

Here are some recommended reads – a mix of modern novels (might be harder to get for free unless you can use Borrowbox through Lancashire libraries) and texts that are often considered to canonical literature (lots of free copies online).

You do not need to read every book here! Just give some of these texts a try if you can get your hands on them, or any other texts by the same author. Aim to read a mix of canonical and modern classics.

Aim to read about a book a week (though some will take longer), and, if you really do not like a book you have started, try another one!

CANONICAL TEXTS MODERN CLASSICS Austen, Jane Pride and Prejudice Adiche , Chimamanda Ngozi Half of A Yellow Sun Sense and Sensibility Purple Hibiscus Bronte, Anne The Tennant of Wildfell Hall Ali, Monica Brick Lane Bronte, Charlotte Jane Eyre Amis, Martin Time's Arrow Bronte, Emily Wuthering Heights Atwood, Margaret Oryx and Crake The Handmaid's Tale The Blind Assassin Conrad, Joseph Heart of Darkness Barker, Pat Regeneration Defoe, Daniel Robinson Crusoe Burgess, Anthony A Clockwork Orange Dickens, Charles Bleak House Carter, Angela Nights at the Circus David Copperfield The Bloody Chamber Great Expectations Faukes, Sebastian Birdsong Dostoevsky, Fyodor Crime & Punishment Hosseini, Khalid A Thousand Splendid Suns Eliot, George Middlemarch Ishiguro, Kazuo The Remains of the Day Never Let Me Go Fitzgerald, F Scott The Great Gatsby Kesey, Ken One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest Forster, EM A Passage to India Lee, Harper To Kill a Mockingbird Howard's End Greene, Graham Brighton Rock Martel, Yann The Life of Pi Golding, William Lord of the Flies Márquez, Gabriel García One Hundred Years of Solitude Hardy, Thomas Tess of the D'Urbervilles Mantel, Hilary Wolf Hall Far From the Madding Crowd McCarthy, Cormac The Road Huxley, Aldous A Brave New World McEwan, Ian Atonement Enduring Love Orwell George Animal Farm Mitchell, David Cloud Atlas 1984 Ghostwritten Shelley Mary Frankenstein Morrison, Toni Beloved The Bluest Eye Steinbeck, John The Grapes of Wrath Plath, Sylvia The Bell Jar Stevenson, RL Jekyll and Hyde Rhys, Jean Wide Sargasso Sea Stoker Bram Dracula Roy, Arundhati The God of Small Things Swift, Jonathan Gulliver's Travels Saffran Foer, Jonathon Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Thackery, W M Vanity Fair Smith, Ali The Accidental Autumn Waugh, Evelyn Brideshead Revisited Tartt, Donna The Secret History The Goldfinch Wilde, Oscar The Picture of Dorian Gray Vonnegut, Karl Slaughterhouse 5 Woolf, Virginia Mrs Dalloway Walker, Alice The Colour Purple To the Lighthouse Winterson, Jeanette Frankkissstein Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit Smith, Zadie On Beauty White Teeth

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PLAYS Bennet, Alan The History Boys Bernard Shaw, George Pygmalion Delaney, Shelagh A Taste of Honey Ibsen, Henrik A Doll's House Miller, Arthur A View from the Bridge Death of a Salesman The Crucible O'Casey, Sean The Plough and the Stars Shakespeare, William Collected works Stoppard, Tom Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Wilde, Oscar The Importance of Being Earnest Lady Windermere's Fan Williams, Tennessee Cat on a Hot Tin Roof A Streetcar Named Desire

For further information please contact Katy McWean [email protected]

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General Guidance in Preparing for University

No matter what you plan to study at university, you need to keep your current knowledge and skills fresh, especially for those subjects upon which your planned degree relies.

Be proactive in developing your subject specific knowledge and academic skills: 1. Make use of any work or revision resources your school or college provides. 2. Try contacting your university for a reading list for your course, then start reading! 3. Look out for TV shows, documentaries, podcasts etc. related to your subject. 4. Look for TED talks related to your chosen subject/ degree (search TED Talks my subject). 5. Complete a relevant mini course related to your subject. Coursera, Open University – Open Learn and Khan Academy offer various free online courses.

FutureLearn Schools also offer a range of subject specific courses, but also courses that are specifically focused on general preparation for university.

In addition, Eton X are making the following courses freely available to state students in year 13: CV Writing, Creative Problem Solving, Interview Skills, Making an Impact, Resilience, Research Skills and Writing Skills. 6. Develop your academic writing maybe using this site BBC Academic Writing Package .

Be proactive in developing your life skills:

7. Learn how to organise your finances. What bills will you have? When will they be paid? 8. Set up a student bank account. Can you manage a budget? Do you know what to prioritise financially? Can you use a spreadsheet to help you manage money? 9. Improve your cooking by learning to cook at least seven different budget meals. Can you produce a week's meal plan that is balanced and healthy? Do you know what leftovers you can freeze? Do you know how to store food safely? 10. Plan meals on a budget. Do you know what store cupboard essentials can make a little go a long way? 11. Improve your household management and cleaning skills. Do you know how frequently you should clean the whole house? Change your bedding? Turn your mattress? Do you know how frequently to clean the toilet? The shower? The oven? The microwave? Do you know how to hoover? 12. Learn how to use a washing machine and how to sort washing loads. Do you know how to operate a washing machine/iron and what the symbols mean on clothes labels? Do you know what clothes can be washed together? 13. Find out how to register with a doctor and dentist. 14. Familiarise yourself with the place you will be moving to. Download a map of the town/ city or look on google earth, and familiarise yourself with some of the landmarks. 15. Check out bus/ train routes for your new town. 16. If you have a bike, give it a little MOT; it’s a quick and cheap way to travel around a town. Remember to Sort out or check if you have insurance for your bike! 17. Use the university prospectus and websites to find out about available social activities, and identify which you may want to get involved with.

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Appendix 1: Universal Project Guide c/o teacherhead.com "Setting Work for a Long-Haul Shut-Down"

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 a ● Who was Nelson Mandela and what did he achieve? 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? ● What are the 10 most endangered species and how can we protect them? challenges: ● 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 and make lots of notes, collect website links in your favourites, cut pictures out of magazines or download them on information your computer or phone. A good project is likely to have a nice mix of images and text so try to create a visual 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 one ● A newspaper report or magazine article 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. ● Write your own quiz based on your research - giving questions and answers. Use this to test your family members after they’ve read your project.

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