Year 12 Summer Home Learning 2015

Art:

Visit at least one art gallery and write about your visit.  Select you favourite 3 pieces of art work and write about why you have chosen them.  Collect postcards/images of these pieces of work.

Create a self portrait using materials of your choice.  Think about how your self portrait shows who you are, your personality and interests.

Create a Pinterest account link - https://www.pinterest.com/

Art & Design BTEC:

Visit at least one art gallery and write about your visit.  Select you favourite 3 pieces of art work and write about why you have chosen them.  Collect postcards/images of these pieces of work.

Create a book sculpture 

Create a Pinterest account link - https://www.pinterest.com/

Biology:

Please follow this link to access the various resources.

Chemistry:

Click here to download the Chemistry home learning assignment.

Economics

Micro
Macro 1
Macro 2

Then, students should respond to the following statement by writing a short essay on the following topic: Assess the economic consequences of the UK leaving the EU. 

Film Studies

Purchase a foolscap lever arch file and a case study sketch book for use during your course. 

Complete the Section A case study booklet issued in the taster class in your case study sketchbook as shown during the taster classes.

Collect a range of promotional material for one of this summer's blockbuster movies and conduct some research into the production, distribution and exhibition of this movie, storing these materials somewhere safe in readiness for Section A classwork in the autumn term. 

Follow the AS Film Studies course blog 
tallismediafilmas.tumblr.com

French:

La Famille et les Relations Personnelles. On-line work on:
Kerboodle.com
User: tallies
Password: greenwich
No: 8489
AS French Library.
La Famille et les relations personnelles – Entre Nous
Work through the listening and reading tasks on Spread A.

History:

1. Explore the History Weebly and Facebook pages and links available there, particularly on Russian Revolution and Civil Rights.
2. Watch as many 'Eyes on the Prize' episodes as you can. Episodes 1-12 are all relevant to the Civil Rights Unit and available on Youtube.
3. Complete any specific tasks set by your teacher

Media (A level):

Purchase a foolscap lever arch file and a case study sketch book for use during your course. 

Follow the AS Media course blog:
tallismediaAlevel.tumblr.com

Write a 500 word analysis of the Blu Ray cover featured on the blog using the prompts and terms provided.

Media (BTEC):

Use the link below to access the Unit 30 page of the department website. Read the information on TV commercials, watch the commercials featured on the page and listen to the accompanying commentaries in readiness for your 1st topic Advertisement Production for Television. 
http://tallismedia.weebly.com/level-3-unit-30.html

You will need to be familiar with this material prior to your 1st class in the autumn in order to engage in analytical discussions and learning for assessment in your 1st half term. 

Follow the Btec Level 3 course blog:
tallismedia12.tumblr.com

Photography:

1. Create a Flickr account and follow Tallis Photography
2. Create a Tumblr blog and follow Tallis Photo
3. Create a Pinterest account and follow Tallis Arts. Begin to pin appropriate images to a new board entitled 'Contrasts'
4. Buy a book (A4 or A3 black, hard bound, landscape or portrait, at least 50 good quality pages). 
5. Begin taking photos on the theme of Contrasts. Upload ALL images to Flickr and the best to your blog. 
6. Make sure you explain why the images you have chosen for your blog are the best. 
   
7. Visit as many exhibitions (not just photography) as you can.
8. Take a good look at the various department websites and blogs, especially tallisphotography.weebly.com, tallisalevelphoto.weebly.com
9. Think about art. Read a good book.

Philosophy

Read one or more of the following:
‘Think: A compelling introduction to Philosophy’ by Simon Blackburn
'Truth: A Guide for the Perplexed' by Simon Blackburn
'The Problems of Philosophy' by Bertrand Russell
‘What does it all mean?  A very short introduction to Philosophy’ by Thomas Nagel
'Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction' by Edward Craig

Listen to at least 5 episodes from the website below over the summer and be prepared to discuss what you made of them.
www.philosophybites.com

Politics:

Keep a summer news log in hard copy form or digital summarising each article and developing a related debate question. Contain a minimum of six key stories, to convey the political landscape over the last six months, including over the summer.

Physics:

Click here for the Physics home learning assignment.

Drama:

Research the two practitioners Stanislavski and Artaud.
Focus on:

• Social, Historical, Political background
• Main Theories and practices
• Style of work
• Affect on actor and audience

Create a detailed handout on each practitioner ready to be shared with your class in the first lesson in Sept

Dance:

Task 1 (theory):
A) Research the following choreographers and their dance works:

• William Forcythe "Solo"
• Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker "Fase"
• Bob Fosse "Sweet Charity"

B) Watch a 5 minute clip of each work and bullet point or mindmap descriptive words for the movement (ASDR)

Task 2 (performance):

• Aim to improve your technical skills by doing the following exercises weekly:
• Posture: sit with your back against the wall for 1 minute
• Alignment: check your arms are in line with your shoulders by checking in a mirror (or photograph) and hold this for 2 minutes
• Strength: hold a plank for 1 minute (3 reps) and a V-sit for 1 min (3 reps); you could also look up pilates exercises on youtube
• Stamina: run, cycle or swim for 10-30 mins
• Flexibility: hold a box stretch for 1 minute (3 reps - each should aim to be deeper than the last) - aim to get your feet pointed off the floor!

English

As part of the course this year you are going to be asked to keep a scrapbook of interesting uses of Language.

Think about how many texts you are exposed to in your daily life. Collect between 6 and 10 interesting texts over the summer. Present them in a scrapbook. Annotate each text according to the language levels. 

English Literature

Read a novel from the list (below) and write a critical review.  

List of texts
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Extended Project:

Extended Project: To write, mind map....in a form of your choosing a set of ideas for a project.

Take notes on any relevant sources looked at. This could take the form of a gallery visit, an interview, books read...etc.

Geography:

Over the induction period you have investigated and explained causes, effects and solutions to a geographic issue. To push this further you should try to take the same approach to investigating another issue from your Geography specification.

This should be written up as an essay but if you want to be a little more creative feel free to surprise us.

Maths:

Click here to access the Maths summer home learning.
Here are the documents given out during Taster Week:

Task Sheet
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Support Document
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Music BTEC

1. You should choose a piece or a selection of pieces to work on for the summer.
2. Create a practice diary charting your development of a solo piece for performance/recording in September.
3. You should create either audio/visual or written diaries. The diaries must demonstrate SMART targets (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Reasonable, Time-bound).  This means that you will set targets  (mainly short-term ones) and be able to reflect on them in your diaries once you have passed your target date.
4. You will give a performance of all or part of the piece you have chosen to work on for the summer, in the first lesson(s) back in September.
5. Create your own Tumblr blog to start gathering video evidence in support of your practice/rehearsal diary.

Any questions or problems contact either Ms Tomczynska or Mr McCarrick on:
ktomczynska@thomastallis.org.uk or mmccarrick@thomastallis.org.uk

Music (A level):

• Create a musical timeline stretching from the first set work to the final. Plot these set works on your timeline (with the year that they were composed), highlighting what period of musical history they were from and what nationality the composer was.

The set works to plot on your timeline are:

• Tippett: Concerto for Double String Orchestra: movement I
• Webern: Quartet Op. 22: movement I
• Haydn: String Quartet in E flat, Op. 33 No. 2, ‘The Joke’: movement IV
• J. S. Bach: Partita No. 4 in D, BWV 828: Sarabande and Gigue

• Berio: Sequenza III for female voice
• Bruckner: Locus iste
• Dowland: Flow my tears
• Gershwin: ‘Summertime’ from Porgy and Bess
• Desmond Dekker and the Aces: You Can Get it if You Really Want
• Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger

Any questions or problems contact me on:
cgould@thomastallis.org.uk

Sport BTEC:

Unit 18 - Sports Injuries
Investigate and prepare a presentation that includes:

1.  A List and explanation of as many intrinsic and extrinsic risk factors in relation to sports injuries.
2.  A list of some preventative measures and tasks that can be taken in order to help reduce the risk of injuries in Sport.
3.  An explanation of how the preventative measures will help reduce the risk of injury.

Research the following:

• Sports Development Continuum, giving example from three different sports and each level

• Barriers to participation for individuals from three different target groups at different levels of the sports-development continuum.

Spanish:

Please watch a Spanish speaking movie and write a summary of it in Spanish.