Holiday Homework
As a bare minimum, you must complete the following tasks before coming back to school at the start of term 1 next year:
- Get your persuasive oral presentations ready for the first day back!
- Read and/or view ALL of the texts for this year AT LEAST ONCE.
- Begin annotating your texts.
- Start to collect articles and ideas surrounding ‘Encountering Conflict’.
Research Databases
The awesome people in the CRC have put together this website to help you with the oral presentation. In particular, you will want to use Echo Online and Newsbank to help you with your research.
Remember that research is a time-consuming task, and it does require a lot of trawling before you can find the material that is of most use to you. You won’t use everything you read: after all, your goal is to find the best information, not the easiest or most readily accessible. Your research skills are part of the assessment criteria.
Referencing
Remember that you need to provide a bibliography with your presentation. If needs to follow a consistent citation style. It is recommended that you use the APA/Harvard system. You can find Mr Bourke’s notes here: APA Citation Guide (Potatoes)
The online referencing guide that was demonstrated in class can be found by following this link and selecting ‘Senior Bibliography’.
Any sources that you refer to in your presentation or which played a notable role in the formulation of your speech (including those which provided valuable background knowledge), should be referenced in your bibliography.
Class Notes: Hooks, Tone and Delivery
The slides from today’s class can be accessed here:
