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Why are some of the letters big and red?
There's a lot to remember on this course, so use anything you can to help simplify things. One easy way of condensing the information into memorable chunks is to use mneumonics. These can be used when the first letter(s) of related words spell out another word. So, for example, The Defence of the Realm Act, becomes DORA. Some of these mneumonics are so common that the exam board use them - DORA is probably the best example of that.
Part 1:Key Content
Use these mneumonics to refresh your memory. Your projects (if you are one of my students) should cover all of the items noted below.
Censorship
Attitudes to the war
Recruitment
Defence Of the Realm Act
Submarine Warfare - impact of
Organisation
Rationing
The role of women
Part Two: Revision Diagram
It's all good and well knowing ThRoW, CARDSORT and DORA but what do they actually mean? You need to be able to use these mnuemonics as prompts to knowledge. The next exercise asks you to revise the content that you have studied so far. In class we will work through this fairly quickly, as you SHOULD be able to provide 4 or 5 ideas for each topic that is covered in the revision diagram on the next page.
Click here to go to the Revision Diagram.
Part Three: Matching exercises - simple but time limited (30 seconds each)
Temporary note for my Year 10 group - projects must be handed in on Monday. If you've done it on a computer, it MUST be printed in advance of the lesson.
Use the rest of the lesson to work on the projects. If you finish it before the end of the lesson:
Check it, it's your grade you're playing with.
Try and unravel these mnuemonics. They all relate to things we'll be studying later this year:
BRAT
SaiNTS
WiGWaM
BARE
Got them? Create 5 of your own.
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