English Exams Nov 8th/10th 2010

The Enlish Language Exams are fast approaching! November 8th and 10th will be upon us before we know it. Make sure you are accessing the websites listed in the blog archive to the right of this message. I believe the blogs are under April and July. Get busy with some revision at home and make sure you attend my Saturday Morning Revision Class in T3 11:00am-13:00pm.

Media Year 10 and 11.

You should all be doing independent research for your next media assignment on Newspaper/Magazines. You should host your research and the websites you have accessed by posting a blog and giving it a title so that i can access the information and assess your progress. Keep a note of all websites visited by listing them under your notes. Good Luck.

Year 11 Media Assignment 2 - Print

Hello Year 11, you are currently researching 'Newspapers' in order to produce your second piece of coursework. We will shortly be looking at 'Magazines' and you are advised to commence research using your blogsite to host your findings.

We are currently comparing how a story is reported in two different newspapers. We are engaged in a class exercise where the two stories should be mounted on paper and then annotated to display their differing properties. Your focus will include examining the headline; the subheading; how long the article is; the use of vocabulary to reflect the readership; the use of photographs and the overall presentational style used. You should also look for bias in line with the Institutions (owners of the newspaper) poilitical/cultural opinions.

Your research and findings should be typed up and hosted on your blospot e.g. The Newspapers we compared were The Daily Telegraph and The Sun (explain the readership that each newspaper has and it's political/cultural leanings)...continue to type up the similarities and differences that you discovered. The link below will provide access to a powerpoint which will be useful but it's important for you to show other research by keeping a record of the books and website links you have looked at. this research will greatly influence your overall mark.

www.worldofteaching.com/powerpoints/english/newspaper%20writing.ppt#267,12,TABLOIDLANGUAGE

Your Coursework Assignment 2 for Print is below:

Analytical Task: Compare one popular magazine or newspaper with its on-line equivalent.

Research and Planning Task: (You must completer both tasks below!)
Mock-up design for the front page of a daily newspaper or magazine or a mock-up design for the front page of an internet home page.

Devise a storyboard for a television or viral advertisement promoting the same magazine or newspaper you have created above. You can create your own name e.g. The Stun, The Daily Wail, Streetcrew Magazine. (See me for storyboards)

Greetings Year 10

Welcome to all new Media Studies pupils in Year 10 2010-2011. You should just have set up your new blog and published your first post. Congratulations. We will be using this site to communicate with each other and to show our research, coursework and media interests. If you have any queries please send me a message or see me in T3.

Poems From Other Cultures.

Those of you who want to be in the driving seat and accelerating towards success in the Novembr exam need to start using the following sites to help you with your revision. The sites have the poems you need and insight into their meanings. Get on it, get revising! http://www.universalteacher.org.uk/ http://www.podcastrevision.co.uk/sitemap/index.html http://www.englishbiz.co.uk/

English Coursework (Media - 'Analyse the article 'Sun Vampires')

Well done for logging on to this blog site - below i have pasted links to the GCSE bitesize site and Englishbiz sites which will give you information on how to analyse a Non-fiction media text. The links to St Mary's College will give you an online copy of the article and a link which will give you some guidance on how to analyse the article. Good Luck. Any problems or if you want to email the assignment or any questions use the following email address millymenero@hotmail.co.uk


www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize (Go into English - Non fiction texts)

http://www.englishbiz.co.uk/ (Analysing non-fiction tab at top of screen)

www.stmaryscollegehull.co.uk/.../sun%20vampires%20article.pdf (If this link does not work then search under Sun Vampires on google and download pdf file.)
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www.stmaryscollegehull.co.uk/.../sun%20vampires%20questions.pdf (If this link does not work then search under Sun Vampires on google and download pdf file.)

Good morning Media students. It's great to see most of you are successfully creating your very own blog site. It is important that you keep this blog site for Media related work only. Use it to store research information for your coursework or to actually host your coursework online. I will be able to leave comments upon your site and you will be able to see my comments, tips and suggestions on my site. Make sure you are following my site by clicking the add button at the bottom of your Dashboard and then pasting millymenero.blogspot.com into the bar. I look forward to communicating with you all in cyberspace - happy blogging! If you want to learn more about blogging use a google search or look for tutorials on YouTube.

English Literature Exam 3 weeks to go!

You should be well under way with your revision for the English Literature Exam. Get on the http://www.podcastrevision.co.uk/ site for help with poems. Don't forget to use simple revision techniques like acrostics (Forming a simple word to help you remember poetic devices by using the first letter of each device) e.g. 'M.A.R.S.' = Metaphors, Alliteration, Rhyme/Rhythm, Similes.

GCSE English Revision

Don't forget revision classes with myself in T8 on Saturday mornings 11am - 13:00. This will cover 'Of Mice and Men' and the poems from the literature paper Yr 10 and Yr 11 will be sitting in May. To aid your revision check out some of the websites below;

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/english/ (Useful for both Literature and Language)

http://www.englishbiz.co.uk/ (Useful for both Literature and Language)

universalteacher.org.uk (AQA Anthology)

Podcastrevision (Useful for poems)

http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/Belmont_HS/mice/index.html (Useful for 'Of Mice and Men')

Introduction To The Media Assignment - Yr 10 - Hand in Date: 14th May (This is the final date as there are exams and you need to be revising also - You should have completed most of it during the 2 week break)

1. Analylical Task - Analyse the opening five minutes of a specific film or television programme. How does the film or programme attract the interest of it's audience?

2. Present ideas for the opening of a film or television programme in the same genre as the analytical task. You can submit ideas in the form of a script; a storyboard, using drawings, writing or photographs to represent what is seen on screen.

Introduction To Media Assignment (The Moving Image)

You should now be focusing upon your Introduction to Media Assignment and i will try to provide as much information as possible on this site. If you check below you should see a number of weblinks that will take you to useful web sites. If you have any further queries either email or catch me in lessons. Good Luck!

http://web.aqa.org.uk/qual/gcse/media.php
http://www.mediaknowall.com/gcse/GCSEKeyterms.html
http://www.visit4info.com/
http://www.youtube.com/
http://www.tvadvertising.co.uk/

Film 2010 with Johnathan Ross Ep4 Part 1

A look at Clint Eastwood's latest directed film 'Invictus' starring Matt Damon. Check out other episodes of this film show on YouTube!

Media Group

Welcome Media pupils to Mr Milligan's Blogging Site. This has been created to give pupils easy access to all lessons and resources that will be required for your GCSE course. I hope you find the site informative and useful and i look forward to communicating with you all over the duration of your course.