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Student Sample: Stage S4 Standard Video 1  

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Today we’re doing the research review as part of your Middle Ages Enquiry Assignment.  Now the reason we’re doing this is because when students have the chance to stop and reflect on their work mid-way through their work, chance to get some opinions about what they’re doing and think more deeply about what they’re doing, then often their work is much better at the end, in the way that when you watch a video of yourself doing a presentation you’re able to improve that presentation the next time that you do it.  So today some of you will have a chance to do that.  The actual task that you’ll be doing is you’ll be presenting the findings of your research assignment so far:  what you’ve found and how you’ve found it, so your process.  You’ll be doing that in that fairly formal way to the group.  Then I’ll be asking some questions which are encouraging you to look at the way that we mark your work and also the way that we see if it’s a good piece of work.  And we’ll also be encouraging you to respond to questions that are asked by your peers, by the students in the audience.  As you’re doing that, when you give the presentation, as I said it’s got some formality to it, so we’re expecting you to have a clear beginning, middle and end; we’re expecting your language to be, include full sentences and probably some words that are specific to this topic; and also we’d like you to organise your thoughts logically when you speak in that first section, alright?  Also, when you respond to people’s questions or comments or suggestions, if you could just consider, respond thoughtfully to those questions and show that you understand them.

I put all the questions for castle in Castle Life which are eight questions:  How did people build castles?  What were the main features of the, of a castle?  Show a drawing and a model.  Describe the castle life.  What is a siege?  How did they invade and attack a castle?  How do castles compare with ah, way countries defend themselves in modern society?  Why did they build a moat, and what is a moat?  And why did people build the kitchens away from the castle?  And then I started researching and I found this information for how did people build castles:  they built them out of firstly, the first castles were built out of wood, then they improved by building them by stone.  What were the main features of a castle?  Um, there was a great hall, there was a cellar, there was a treasury, there was a cellar stores and a chapel and the kitchens.

Okay, how can you Daiana, make sure you get a wide range of sources?

Well, a wide range of sources, well, I don’t know.  That is a very hard question for me.  Um, well I like um, primary sources more because they tell you more stories than a, well a secondary source because secondary sources might be wrong and some might be right.  And when you look in a primary source, which happened in the Middle Ages, it’s easier to understand because you look at it, well you look at it, it happened and it lived there.  But if you look in a secondary source it just tells you what might have, what might have happened there.

How can you make sure you get the, get images which are interesting and informative?

Well, the internet is a very good source, but not really.  I wondered if I can look up in books because um, sometimes the internet just lies to you because internet just is a good source in a way, and a bad source.  They might just tell you it’s r-, they might tell you something which is wrong and you just put it on your booklet.  So I was wondering if I could, if I better scan, like books and then just put the pictures on my booklet.

Mm.  Any comments about that girls?

You maybe could get pictures that might be linked to the story as well, more, then you go in the internet and maybe you could get the pictures from books.

Yeah.

So that was published a very long time ago.

Mm-hm.

And yeah.  

Okay.