Year 10 Subject Revision Lists – Winter Examinations, 2014.

DRAMA

  • Exams will commence the week beginning November 24th
  • Each pupil will be given their exam script the week beginning November 10th
  • Script: ‘Our Day Out’ by Willy Russell
  • In pairs as the characters of Briggs and Carol respectively
  • Exam expectations – strong line knowledge, costume and props effort as well as a self-evaluation task

ENGLISH

Reading:

  • Analyse a character using the PEE chain – Point/Evidence/Explanation
  • Read the novel ‘The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’ up to the end of Chapter 10.
  • Know in particular the following events:

-Chapter 1 – Mother’s attitude to the family moving house.

-Chapter 5 – Bruno’s discussion with his Father about returning to Berlin.

-Chapter 7 - What happened after Bruno fell off the swing.

-Chapter 8 – Grandmother’s attitude to Father’s new job.

-Chapter 10 – Bruno meeting Shmuel.

Writing:

  • Features of personal letter writing
  • Features of diary writing
  • Punctuation – capital letters / full stops / question marks / apostrophes
  • Writing in full sentences
  • Writing in paragraphs

FRENCH

  • Describing yourself and others ( physical description, name, age etc, clothes)
  • Helping out at home
  • Use of past tense verbs with ‘avoir’
  • Regular past participles
  • Irregular past participles
  • Writing about a weekend in the past
  • Cafés in France
  • Food and snacks and ice cream flavours
  • Likes/dislikes with food
  • Ordering a meal in a restaurant

GEOGRAPHY

-Knowledge of world map, cities, countries and continents

-Define weather

-List weather features, instruments used, units

-Understand synoptic charts, symbols used

-Define air pressure, draw isobars

-Identify areas of LOW and HIGH pressure

-Recognise systems of weather affecting the UK and the sequences of weather associated with anticyclones and depressions

-Be able to apply knowledge of weather systems to make decisions about daily activities

-Define climate

-Understand the green house effect, know what green house gases are, explain how human activity is causing our planet to get warmer, suggest possible ways we can reduce green house gases and carbon footprints

HOME ECONOMICS

Is your food full of it?– The recommendation for salt, the foods salt is found in and how we can reduce our salt intake

Needs of the elderly– physical, social, intellectual and emotional needs, important factors to consider when meal planning and what convenience foods are

Foods from around the world– Where different foods come from and why we eat a variety of cultural foods

Foods on the go– Advantages, disadvantages, what fast food burgers contain, health problems related to obesity

All spellings on the front of all of the above booklets.

HISTORY

Booklets-

  1. Introduction (Welcome) to the Twentieth Century

Emmeline Pankhurst-

Women’s Campaign for the right to vote, including the 1913 Derby

Martin Luther King –

Civil Rights Movement including Little Rock Incident

  1. “Get Global”

Ulster’s Global Industries

-Linen and Shipbuilding

  1. War in the Twentieth Century

Focus-First World War

  1. Partition of Ireland

Long term causes of Partition-

Home Rule Crisis 1912-14

MATHEMATICS

10ST/EY/HM/GP

1.5 hours (45mins exam plus 45mins TASK)

  • Processing data – calculations involving mean, median, mode and range
  • Presenting data including scatter diagrams/correlation and pie charts
  • General graph work and interpretation of data from a table
  • Percentage calculations including financial calculations such as VAT
  • Angle calculations including parallel lines, triangles and quadrilaterals
  • Algebra – simplifying expressions, expanding brackets, factorising, solving equations, substitution and forming algebraic expressions
  • Scatter diagrams/correlation
  • Circles –parts of a circle, calculating circumference and area
  • Perimeter and area calculations involving composite shapes
  • Ratio – simplifying ratios and sharing in a given ratio

10RP

1.5 hours (45mins exam plus 45mins TASK)

Measures

Choose appropriate units

Use decimals to record lengths

Convert from one metric unit to another

Calculate the area of squares, rectangles and triangles

Label parts of the circle

Data/Graphs

Construct and interpret:

  • Bar charts
  • Line graphs
  • Scatter graphs
  • Stem and leaf diagrams

Record discrete data in a frequency table

MUSIC

MUSIC FROM AMERICA:

  • AARON COPLAND: ‘Fanfare For The Common Man’ and ‘Hoe-Down’ from ‘Rodeo’
  • SAMUEL BARBER: ‘Adagio For Strings’
  • LEONARD BERNSTEIN: ‘America’ from ‘West Side Story’
  • JOHN CAGE: ’4”33’

The Recording Studio and the Music Industry:the items of equipment used in a studio, what each item is for, and how the Music Industry works and supports itself

Careers in Music

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

The Early Church and the Church today – Early Church activities

-Church furnishings

-The Holy Spirit

-Pentecost

Persecution – Define key words

- Stephen

- Roman Persecution

- Persecution today

- Philip and the Ethiopian

- Saul’s conversion

SCIENCE

Year 10ST, EY, HM & GP

Biology –The Circulatory System

The Respiratory System (part)

Chemistry – Materials

Periodic Table

Physics - Magnetism and Electricity

Heating & Cooling

In addition to these topics there will also be questions for which you cannot revise e.g.

Drawing & interpreting line graphs

Bar charts

Tables

Fair testing

Comprehensions

Also make sure you can spell and understand the meaning of the key words.

Year 10RP

Biology –The Circulatory System

Physics - Earth and Space

Electricity

Using Electricity

Waves

In addition to these topics there will also be questions for which you cannot revise e.g.

Drawing & interpreting line graphs

Bar charts

Tables

Fair testing

Comprehensions

Also make sure you can spell and understand the meaning of the key words.

SPANISH

  1. Family members
  2. Describing personality
  3. “ser” (to be)
  4. Agreement of adjectives
  5. Saying how well you get on with someone
  6. Physical description
  7. Countries/Nationalities/Languages
  8. Jobs & Places of work
  9. Where you live
  10. Type of accommodation
  11. Geographical position (north, south etc.)
  12. Where your house is (eg countryside)
  13. Ordinal numbers – saying what floor someone lives on
  14. Rooms of the house
  15. Adjectives to describe rooms
  16. Prepositions
  17. “estar” (to be)
  18. Furniture in your bedroom
  19. This/These
  20. Helping at home
  21. Things you do in your room (eg watch TV, listen to music)

TECHNOLOGY

Health and Safety

Electronic symbols

555 Timer circuit