SUMMER TASKS

YEAR 13 SUMMER WORK

FIRSTLY MAKE SURE YOUR EXAM BLOGS ARE UP TO DATE, YOUR ASSESSMENTS AND DIRT SHEETS ARE ON THERE AND THAT ALL YOUR RESEARCH AND PRELIMS ARE ON YOUR NEA BLOGS with their reflections.


THEN… (TO GO ON YOUR EXAM BLOGS, LABEL CONTEXT)


INTRO TO CONTEXT – IN THE EXAM YOU MAY BE ASKED TO REFER TO ECONOMIC, POLITICAL, SOCIAL OR CULTURAL CONTEXT. THESE OF COURSE TEND TO OVERLAP. HERE IS A TASTER FOR YOU TO RESEARCH AND SUMMARISE. WE THOUGHT ECONOMIC WOULD BE A BIT TOO BORING FOR THE SUMMER HOLIDAYS BUT WE’LL RETURN TO IT.


BIG NEWS AND CURRENT EVENTS
Create a timeline and description of the following events that took place 2017/2018 so that you understand the contexts around them. It would really help you if you found front covers from the main papers (Guardian, DM, Times, Mirror)
BREXIT – When did David Cameron announce referendum? Why did he do this? Who were the leavers/remainers? Analyse front pages of Brexit result https://www.theguardian.com/media/gallery/2016/jun/25/brexit-front-pages-in-pictures.


POLITICS
· After Cameron resigned who was running for the leadership? Who ran for recent Tory leadership? Who is leader of the Lib Dems?
· When was May chosen as leader of the Conservative party?
· General Election result and the rise of Jeremy Corbyn’s popularity.


ROYALS Engagements, Queen’s 90th, babies


TERRORISM and HATRED
· Westminster Bridge
· London Bridge
· Borough
· Finsbury Park mosque
· Manchester
· Jo Cox

SYRIAN WAR
· Brief summary, still ongoing, huge humanitarian issues, refugees


SPECIFIC UK ISSUES
- Brexit of course and May's downfall
· Grenfell tower – what issues did this event highlight?
· Windrush
· NHS – doctor’s strikes, worry over privatisation, waiting times
· Charlie Gard
· Football sex abuse
· Murray wins Wimbledon
· 2016 Great Britain Olympics success
· Immigration
YOUTH AGGRESSION – Acid attacks and spate of stabbings
TRUMP ELECTION – Lead up and Reaction
#METOO CAMPAIGN #BLACKLIVESMATTER


CULTURAL TRENDS OF 2017-2019 (and how other media has influenced a product) Spider diagram, Moodboard whatever you fancy to get an idea of the zeitgeist (look it up).
· Films
· Tv programmes
· Music
· Video games
· Youtube, memes, twitter storms
· Find three examples of intertextuality
· TOP CULTURAL FADS ie dab, fortnite and links to dance moves which footballers then took on in world cup


SOCIAL CONTEXT – changes in wider society find some egs in media for each
· DISABILITY (more publicity in Olympics), look at tv programmes that have tackled this, physical, mental and emotional issues have had more recent attention recently
· REGIONALISM – Made in Chelsea vs TOWIE vs Geordie Shore?
· CLASS – do chavs still exist? How are they represented? What is ABC1? Beyonce/Jay Z collaboration
· AGE – youth, elderly
· GENDER - look at #metoo and various gender identities on the rise
· ETHNICITY – look at The Carters Apes**t, This is America, Black Panther, North Korea and Kim Jong-Un reps, Immigration issue
· SEXUALITY – there has been a year on year increase in LGBT characters in the media, find three characters from different media in the last five years

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Prelim Tasks