Homework - Economics

Homework for Bibi, Aidana, Mary, David, Dima and Anastasia ONLY

You have NINE DAYS to write a REVISION BOOKLET that covers the entire AS Unit 1 syllabus for Economics. ALL of the booklet must be your own words. The diagrams must all be your own work (you can copy but NOT copy and paste) using this

(Unit 1 is NOT the whole OCR book. It is ONLY half of it. READ THE SYLLABUS)

You are to include links, where relevant, to websites, newspaper articles etc.

You MUST MUST cover the syllabus. Obviously if you wish to add in examples from Russia, Korea or Kazakstan then that is fine - as long as there are also examples from the UK.
There are SIX of you so I strongly suggest you split the syllabus for Unit 1 into FIVE sections and each of you are responsible for one section. The SIXTH person to act as overall Editor - perhaps someone who does not speak fluent Russian (and has a silly haircut)

I want to see a draft copy on FRIDAY.

If any of you do ICT then you must also design a cover.

There must be an INDEX to the book.

You must include at the END of every chapter, a MIND MAP summarising the chapter.

Each chapter MUST have a list of key vocabulary.

At the END of the book in the Appendix, there should be BOOK REVIEWS.

The manual should be in LANDSCAPE FORMAT

There must be TWO versions of this book.

One in ENGLISH...and one in Russian.

When you have finished I will tell you some news you will be pleased about...something that will make you proud, happy - ecstatic even....

Something that may change your life - it has changed the lives of other Economics students I have taught...

So what you should do over this week-end is P-L-A-N who is going to do what and by when.

Then allocate the work and arrange deadlines etc.

Then sit back and think of how you will tell your parents about this, your friends, your children...how the people at the top universities will admire you....

PLUS:

You are to create a series of Powerpoint slides that go with this - in Russian and English. These are then to be burned onto CD.

How to create powerpoint slides

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