November blog feedback

 

WWW: Frankie, in regards to your blog work - you made a good start to Year 12 at the beginning  however recently there are lots of gaps and late submissions which means you are currently falling behind. Your first blog task demonstrates you have high ambitions and expectations which is great to see however we need to improve the level of detail in order to achieve this.


Next steps:

  1. Complete the missing blog work that is currently in yellow (see above)

  2. Ensure that you are adding plenty of detail to each blog task (there is a number of questions with one word answers - we need more depth and detail in post-16 compared to GCSE


Learner response: Correct the above and then answer the questions below:


Reflect on your work in A Level Media so far:

What is your strongest piece of work? the audience psychographics presentation

What is your weakest? - reading an image

What specific skills or knowledge do you need to develop over the rest of the course?

social and cultural references exam questions


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