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It’s All Greek to Me!

Aphrodite

Goddess of love, married to Hephaestus.

Apollo

God of the Sun. He drives the chariot that rises the sun.

Ares

God of war. Brother to Hephaestus.

Artemis

Goddess of the hunt. Apollo is her twin brother.

Athena

Goddess of wisdom. She is the favourite daughter of Zeus.

Demeter

Goddess of fertility. Demeter is a sister of Zeus.

Dionysus

God of wine, he is a son of Zeus.

Eros

God of love. Uses arrows and a bow to cause whoever is hit by the arrow to fall in love with the first person they see.

Hades

God of the underworld. Brother of Poseidon.

Hephaestus

God of fire and the forge. Married to Aphrodite.

Hera

Goddess of marriage. Zeus' wife.

Hermes

God of flight. Messenger of the gods.

Poseidon

God of the sea. His weapon is a trident by which he can stir up the seas, wreck ships and drown sailors.

Zeus

The king of the gods. The ruler of Mount Olympus and the god of the sky, thunder and lightning.

Mind Mapping Mind mapping is a fun and visual way to capture and summarise information onto one piece of paper. There are no hard and fast rules!

Mind Mapping gives you the opportunity to add colour, pictures and even humour to your revision.

Useful when you want to consolidate detail into an easy to read format.

It even helps you to visualise the answer in your head if you can picture where on the page it is written.

Below is an example text followed by a mind-map representing the information

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Very little is officially known about Shakespeare; but scholars have pieced together a reasonably comprehensive picture of his life from his marriage to Anne Hathaway in 1582 to his Christenings of his 3 children.

And most reputable critics ascribe to him the authorship of the major portion of thirty eight of the world’s most respected plays several excellent poems, and some 154 sonnets.

William achieved success largely on his own. He apparently never attended college. Successive purchases and sales of agricultural products and parcels of land near Stratford must have provided Shakespeare with greatly increased capital, which, when reinvested paid him steady income for many years. This gave him the freedom and time to concentrate on his first loves: acting and writing. In 1594-1595 William performed before Queen Elizabeth and his name became widely recognised.

Shakespeare grew in public stature when he became one of the owners of London’s Globe Theatre in 1599. For Study, Shakespeare’s works can be divided into six separate, somewhat chronological sections; Early works, Major Histories, The problem plays, Tragedies, The Roman Plays, and The Late Romances. His comedies seem to be interspersed throughout these divisions.

(Source http://www.mind-mapping.co.uk/_images/_Pdf/EXAMPLES/EDUCATION/Language/EnglishLiterature/William-Shakespeare-Life-handdrawn-unknown.pdf)

List some of the subjects that you feel a mind-map may be useful to help your revision:

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Your Turn!

Below is some descriptive text about mind-mapping. Use the blank page opposite to create your own mind-map, capturing the key bits of information.

Information on Mind Mapping A mind map is usually centred round a single word or topic. It is a graphical method of storing or summarising information. They can be used as study aids, for problem solving, classifying ideas, decision making and writing.

Although evidence of similar graphical records date back to the 3rd century, popular psychology author Tony Buzan claims to have invented modern mind mapping.

Tony Buzan suggests guidelines for effective mind mapping including: starting in the centre with an image of the topic; using at least three colours; use of images, symbols and codes; writing only selected key words; the lines should be connected; lines should grow thinner as they radiate outwards.

There is an argument that suggests that mind mapping uses both right and left hemispheres of the brain, making the process more stimulating than reading information alone. Research in 2002 found that use of spider diagrams, which use a similar principle to mind maps, by undergraduates, resulted in a 10% increase in recall of information from a 600 word text.

Mind maps are a versatile method of recording information. They can be created in a rough format using a notebook and pen, through to using software packages designed specifically to generate mind maps.

Mind maps tend to be a ‘marmite’ exercise. I.E. Some people love them and some people hate them. They are not for everybody but they can help to make a real difference.

Your Mind Map on Mind Mapping

Associations Remembering facts, objects or items in an abstract way can be difficult. Our brains tend to make associations between things, so often one thought will lead to another. Have you ever had a conversation with someone that ended up on a completely different topic to the one you started with? This happens through one thought leads to another, and gradually the topic changes.

We can use these associations to help us remember lists if seemingly abstract information. We can either associate items with each other through a story (works well for some people), or we can create visual associations with familiar places in our mind’s eye.

Below is an example of some random items and facts to remember, followed by an example of a story to help us remember them. Remember that, often, the more wacky the story, the easier it is to remember!

Rabbit 2009 Post box Green Chocolate Simon Cowell Lightning Racing car Wall House

Moonlight Wooden spoon Torch Trainers Clouds History Flowers Candle Tree Eagle

The Memory Story This story links the random items together making it easier to picture them, associate them and to remember them “This is the tale of a rabbit, born in the year 2009 inside a postbox made out of green chocolate. On top of the post-box is a picture of Simon Cowell with lightning striking his racing car which has crashed into the wall of a house; The house is bathed in moonlight, with a wooden spoon shaped shadow cast by a torch shining through his trainers. From the trainers rise clouds of smelly foot odour; the smelliest in history! Even flowers can’t cover the smell so a scented candle has been placed next to a tree guarded by an eagle.”

If stories aren’t your thing, try placing the objects in a familiar place (such as your home or school) in your mind’s eye. You can then travel through the familiar place visualising the objects that are there.

For example: “Picture yourself walking up to your front door, there is a rabbit instead of a door handle. Your house number has been changed to 2009. As you go through the door you see that there is a post-box in the hall. You check the kitchen for a snack but the only food in the cupboards is green chocolate. You go to the loo but Simon Cowell is sitting on it, so you head through to the living room where there you come across a thunderstorm with lightning bolts coming from the lights. As you go up the stairs you have to squeeze past a racing car and you find a wall at the top of the stairs. Break through the wall to see a dolls house on the landing, and as you go into your room you see the moon sitting on your bed lighting up the room with moonlight………..”

The secret is to make the journey your own – place unusual objects in places that you know well. Plan a route around the place so that you pick up all the objects on the way!

List some of the subjects that you feel associations may be useful to help your revision:

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Your Turn Use the page opposite to write a story associating the following objects OR create a journey through a familiar place, in your mind’s eye place the objects where you will remember them.

Bowl Pyjamas Clock Mug Panda Supermarket Window 22 Greenhouse Leaf

Wednesday Fire Computer Book Digger Mr Bean Big toe Paper Chimney Aliens

Your Story / Visualisation

Mnemonics and Acronyms Remembering sequences can be challenging,, the order in which dates, objects or even letters themselves fit together can sometimes need a little memory boost!

Mnemonics, acronyms and rhymes are memory aids that can help to refresh the memory through unusual or amusing quotations.We can use phrases, poems or words to help us remember sequences and patterns.

Below are some common examples: 1) Mnemonic for colours of the rainbow: Red; Orange; Yellow; Green; Blue; Indigo; Violet.

Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain 2) Mnemonic for the planets of the solar system: Mercury; Venus; Earth; Mars; Jupiter; Saturn; Uranus; Neptune; Pluto

My Very Educated Mother Just Showed Us Nine Planets 3) Acronym for effective goal setting: Goals must be: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Timebound or …. SMART

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Your Turn Come up with a mnemonic or acronym to help remember one of the following lists: 1) Seven natural wonders of the world: Aurora Borealis; Grand Canyon; Paricutin; Victoria Falls; Mount Everest; Great Barrier Reef; Harbour of Rio de Janeiro.

2) 12 Signs of the Zodiac: Aries; Taurus; Gemini; Cancer; Leo; Virgo; Libra; Scorpio; Sagittarius; Capricorn; Aquarius; Pisces.

3) Six Wives of Henry VIII: Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn; Jane Seymour; Anne of Cleves; Kathryn Howard; Kathryn Parr 4) Select a topic of your choice from your studies!

Questions and Answers A fun and thorough way to learn detailed information that can work on your own or working with others. You are the Quiz Master, designing a quiz, putting together questions designed to catch out your opponent.

Read through a piece of information looking for any question that could possibly be asked about the content. As you identify a question, number it and write it down on a sheet of paper, with the answer on a separate sheet under the corresponding number.

Challenge yourself to see how thorough you can be and to see how many questions you can come up with. You will retain the vast number of answers simply by going through this process!!

Once you have completed your quiz, run through the questions, in order, several times to test yourself. Check any answers that you are not sure of, on your answer sheet. Then try the same again but ask the questions randomly.

Try this against other people or in teams. Challenge each other for prizes or forfeits! Have fun with this one!

Below is some text with example questions and answers written beneath it. It is not on a very exciting subject, but we can still make a quiz!

Choosing a Higher Education subject It's important to look beyond the course title Far more subjects are available in higher education than at school. Many are vocational, and lead straight into a career, such as nursing or accountancy.

Others are academic, ranging from subjects you may have studied before such as French or Geography, to less familiar ones like Social Policy.

You’ll need to look beyond the course title. Even courses with exactly the same name may (and probably will) differ enormously. Look carefully at the differences between courses within your subject before deciding which to apply for.

For example, if you’re interested in construction but wish to use your creative skills, you may be better suited to a Building Design Management course than a Building Project Management course.

Higher education courses are put together by individual universities and colleges, so what's included (and how they are delivered) will vary enormously - drawing on the strengths of the staff and facilities on hand.

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Far more subjects are available in higher education than where?

What are courses that lead straight into careers called?

Give two examples of this type of course.

What is the other type of course called, reflecting more traditional subjects?

5. What doesn’t the course title always tell you?

6. Who puts together higher education courses?

7. What strengths do they tend to draw on?

List some of the subjects that you feel that questions and answers may be useful to help your revision:     

Your Turn Use the page opposite to come up with seven questions, based on the information below, that you think will stump someone on an opposing team.

Youth “Cannot Live” Without the Web A survey of 16 to 24 year olds has found that 75% of them feel they "couldn't live" without the internet. The report, published by online charity YouthNet, also found that four out of five young people used the web to look for advice. The findings were unveiled at the Houses of Parliament on Wednesday.

Despite high-profile examples of internet security breaches, such as the recent incident of phishing email scams, 76% of the survey group thought the internet was a safe place ‘as long as you know what you're doing’. "I think children, teenagers and people under their mid-20s have grown up with technology and they understand it deeply," said psychologist Graham Jones Charlie McDonnell is a 19 year old video blogger on YouTube - With 200,000 subscribers and more than 20 million hits overall, he is the third most subscribed to on the site. He started in April 2007 and had amassed around 150 viewers until he made a tongue-in-cheek film called "how to get featured on Youtube". His mother had no interest in the internet until he got started. Now he has shown her everything and she uses his hand-me-down old kit to make her own Youtube video logs. His use of the net illustrates how sophisticated young consumers are.

"I never really look for news, I find out about stuff that interests me from blogs.

I use them as a filter to find news that I find interesting. Twitter's not very accurate - it's one person saying they saw something on one website - but it's good for getting information straight away," he said. Mr Jones thinks it is the parents who need to become more sophisticated. "One of the biggest problems for children is not that they are vulnerable but that their parents don't know what they're doing," he said.

It is a point Mr McDonnell agrees with.

"It's important that parents have full understanding of the internet and its risks younger people need parental direction," he said.

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It’s All Roman to Me!

Venus Sol

Goddess of love, she was born in the sea.

God of the Sun. Also known as Apollo

Mars

God of war. Father of Romulus and Remus.

Diana

Goddess of the moon. Carries a bow and arrow for hunting.

Minerva

Goddess of wisdom. Her symbol is the owl

Ceres

Goddess of corn. Cereal gets its name from Ceres.

Bacchus

God of wine. The feast of Bacchus features in the Narnia book, Prince Caspian

Cupid

God of love. Cupid was a mischievous god!

Pluto

God of death. Romans were afraid to say his name.

Vulcan Juno

The blacksmith god. Used the volcano, mount Etna, as his forge.

Queen of the gods and goddess of marriage.

Mercury

God of flight. He had a winged hat and sandals.

Neptune

God of the sea. His weapon is a trident and he sometimes rode on the back of a dolphin.

Jupiter

The king of the gods. The eagle was his messenger

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