Studying starts - almost

September is here and I am in the final stages of putting together study material for my teenagers, mainly though for B as she is aiming to take her iGCSE English Language and GCSE Maths exams next June. Also they are both studying iGCSE Biology one day a week.

Also getting together bits and pieces for my little one too.

Starting with English.

B will be working  from her various English textbooks and will be studying the following, from the Edexcel iGCSE English Specification:-

From ‘Touching the Void’ — Joe Simpson 

‘Your Guide to Beach Safety’ — RNLI leaflet 

Climate Change webpage — Greenpeace 

‘Climate Change: The Facts’ — (adapted from an article by Kate Ravilious in The Guardian

Science Course) 

From ‘A Game of Polo with a Headless Goat’ — Emma Levine 

From ‘A Passage to Africa’ — George Alagiah 

From ‘The Explorer’s Daughter’ — Kari Herbert 

‘Explorers, or Boys Messing About’ — Steven Morris (The Guardian) 

From ‘Taking on the World’ — Ellen MacArthur 

From ‘Chinese Cinderella’ — Adeline Yen Mah

Disabled — Wilfred Owen 

Out, Out — Robert Frost 

Refugee Blues — W H Auden 

An Unknown Girl — Moniza Alvi 

Electricity Comes to Cocoa Bottom — Marcia Douglas 

The Last Night (from Charlotte Gray) — Sebastian Faulks 

Veronica — Adewale Maja-Pearce 

The Necklace — Guy de Maupassant 

A Hero — R K Narayan 

King Schahriar and his brother (extract from The Arabian Nights) 

The following websites cover most of the above:-

iGCSE Anthology Texts 2013/13   This is a quite a good blog which covers:

• A Passage to Africa
• Chinese Cinderalla
• Your Guide to Beach Safety
• The Explorers Daughter

Mohammad Younis Farids Blog - Lots of free past papers on here.

Teachit - Lots of iGCSE English help on here, you have to register first but it is free.

Pearsons School - help with:-

• Touching theVoid
• Your Guide to Beach Safety
• Climate Change - The Facts
• A Game of Polo with A Headless Goat
• A Passage to Africa
• The Explorers Daughter
• Explorers, or boys messing about? 
• Taking on The World
• Chinese Cinderella

English iGCSE - covering the same as the above link.

Mr Hoyes IGCSE's Website  - Lots of good info on here.

Bibliomania - lots of free online literature.

Cambridge Students - exam advice.

Englishbiz - poetry essays exam advice plus lots more

BBC Skillswise - Grammar

Sparknotes - Literature study guides.

MATHS

Study Maths - Revsion Notes, Worksheets and Maths Games.

S-cool  GCSE Revision

Revision World - All subjects

Mathsrevision. - Maths Revision, as it states.

School Workout - Revision Material

Will be working on Biology revision today, as well as putting together a bit of structured education for J.