Schedule until Xmas

Hi all, here is the schedule until the Christmas break:

• Thurs 11th and Tues 16th Nov - delivery of unassessed presentations (as per agreed times detailed on previous post).
• Thurs 18th Nov - I will take you through the 'how to do' presentation assessment.
• Tues 23rd Nov - work on 'how to do' presentation.
• Thurs 25th Nov - look at essay writing.
• Tues 30th Nov - work on 'how to do' presentation.
• Thurs 2nd Dec - referencing.
• Tues 7th Dec - work on 'how to do' presentation.
• Thurs 9th, Tues 14th, Thurs 16th and Tues 21st Dec - assessed presentation on 'how to do'.

We will pick the dates for when you want to deliver your assessed talks after we have completed the unassessed talks. We will be mindful that some students may be travelling home near the end of term.

I have also contacted Evan to see how you are getting on with the History syllabus as we can double up an essay from his class which will help bring the workload down somewhat!

As a reminder, there are 13 assessments for Comm 4 and Oral Presentation Skills:

Comm 4

• 2 x writing (probably two essays, one of which will be integrated with Evan)
• 2 x listening exercises (we will look at a radio and a TV programme in the Ne'er).
• 2 x speaking - one presentation on an 'issue' lasting 8-10 minutes and discussions on agreed topics. We will split into groups for that and decide on what you'd like to discuss.
• 2 x reading assessments. You have all done the first one, the magazine article on Digital Books and we will do another from a newspaper sometime in the New Year.

Oral Presentation Skills

• 1 x 'how to do' presentation (done in December)
• 1 x presentation plan (on the 'how to do' talk)
• 1 x presentation on an 'issue'. You will be assessed for OPS at the same time as the Comm 4 talk to avoid over assessment.
• 2 x presentation analyses. Different to the Comm 4 listening exercise but looks specifically at how the presenter delivers their talk. One will be a presentation delivery from a film and one will be a presentation delivery from a formal presentation on an interesting topic.

I know it sounds a lot, but I had it in my mind that we would get three assessments done by Christmas and I am certain we can do that. It's all good, so lets keep going until Christmas guys!

Na zdrowie. (I hope that is accurate, please correct me if I am wrong!)