Year 12 Wider Reading Enrichment List 2014-2015
Subject
Recommended Reads
http://www.art2day.co.uk/
Bringing conceptual art and independent learning to the
classroom gives students the opportunity to gain vital,
transferrable skills. Pupils will become creative thinkers and
will be more valuable in the workplace.
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/
Launched in 2010, Colossal is a blog that explores art and other
aspects of visual culture. Each week you’ll find 15-25 posts on
photography, design, animation, painting, installation art,
architecture, drawing, and street art. Colossal is a reminder
that in this digital age there are still countless people making
incredible work with their bare hands.
Art
Extraordinary Sketchbooks: Inspiring Examples
from Artists, Designers, Students and
Enthusiasts [Paperback] Jane Stobart
“Bad Science” by Ben Goldacre
“Song of The Dodo” by David Quammen
Biology
Why I should read this…
“Selfish Gene” by Richard Dawkins
“The X in sex” by David Bainbridge
The Economist
Great ideas for presentation and use of media. Well worth
having as a reference and source of inspiration and shows that
sketchbooks should be personal.
It discusses mainstream media reporting on health and science
issues, and how wrong it often is!
An adventure book for those interested in rare and exotic
animals, and of course extinct ones!
It outlines the importance of genes (versus individuals).
Controversial but fascinating.
It explains the far-ranging effects of our X and Y chromosomes
Includes Special Reports, Daily News on Finance and Economics
and Business. It has simple definitions of key economics terms.
Instant access to all the latest economics stories
BBC - www.bbc.co.uk/news/business/
www.tutor2u.net
www.bized.co.uk
www.businesscasestudies.co.uk
Business
Studies
www.businessstudiesonline.co.uk
Free online resources and activities on Business Studies and
Economics
Real life case studies for enrichment and in class activities.
It includes business activities, theory notes, software and
useful links.
Interesting articles on A Level Business topics. The online
archive offers revision notes exam preparation tips, etc.
Interesting Reading on some well known businessmen
Business Review – Philip Allan
Autobiography of Lord Alan Sugar
Successful Businessman
What You See Is What You Get: My
Autobiography by Lord Alan Sugar
From ice cream salesman to multi-millionnaire –an
autobiography
Anyone Can Do It: My Story by Duncan
Bannatyne
CPG Head start to AS Chemistry
OCR Chemistry AS Student book & CD-ROM by
Rob Richie
Chemistry
Calculations in AS/A level Chemistry by Jim
Clark
Chemistry Review magazine
Helps to bridge the gap from GSCE to AS course. A must if you
have done double award science.
Course book
To give practice of calculation questions.
Many of the articles are also both useful and relevant to GCE
Chemistry. Each issue features short, accessible articles, on
topics related to the exam specifications.
Subject
Recommended Reads
Why I should read this…
http://a-levelchemistry.co.uk/
http://www.chemguide.co.uk/
Notes on Chemistry topics featured in GCE Chemistry
http://www.knockhardy.org.uk
Computing
Drama
OCR Computing for A Level [Paperback]
Chris Leadbetter (Author), George Rouse
(Author), Agneau Belanyek
(Author)
This book has all the course contents.
http://www.ocrcomputing.org.uk
This website has all the revision notes required for the course.
To be confirmed by teacher in September
The Economist
Includes Special Reports, Daily News on Finance and Economics
and Business. It has simple definitions of key economics terms.
Instant access to all the latest economics stories
www.bbc.co.uk/news/business/
www.tutor2u.net
www.bized.co.uk
Economic Review – Philip Allan
Economics
Freakonomics by Levitt & Dubner
Free online resources and activities on Business Studies and
Economics
Interesting articles on A Level Economics topics. The online
archive offers revision notes exam preparation tips, video Q&A,
etc.
An engaging and entertaining read, it makes modern economic
thinking interesting
Undercover Economist by Tim Harford
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that
Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health,
Wealth and Happiness by Thaler & Sunstein
Shakespeare by Bill Bryson
Our Day Out Willy Russell
A popular psychology book about how we behave and how, as
the subtitle puts it, hidden forces influence our everyday
decisions.
An interesting read about the decisions we make about the day
to day things. Do we choose wisely?
One of your coursework tasks will be about a Shakespeare play.
It is important that you have an understanding of the time
period.
Your coursework will focus on the comedy genre. You need to
read comic plays.
Pygmalion George Bernard Shaw
English
Literature
http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/converse/movie
s/wyatt_praccrit.swf
Close up: Explore a poem in depth, by Cambridge University
The English Review journal
The Guardian and The Times Review
supplements
Follow us on Twitter @UCGSEnglish
A KS5 Reading List will also be provided
http://multimedia.food.gov.uk/multimedia/pdf
s/publication/sfbb-tagd-retailers-fullcolpack0513.pdf
Food
Technology
http://multimedia.food.gov.uk/multimedia/pdf
s/publication/growingchild0310.pdf
http://multimedia.food.gov.uk/multimedia/pdf
s/publication/goodlife0609.pdf
http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/superfoods/Pages
/superfoods.aspx
Resources and revision tips
This will give you a detailed understanding of how HACCP is
applied in the food industry.
Your understanding of diet in relation to age will be more
detailed. The first link is for children and the second one for
people over 50.
Go into each of the foods and the subsections within each one.
Your background knowledge of a wide range of foods and how
Subject
Recommended Reads
Why I should read this…
they affect the body will be greatly enhanced.
For year 12:
We would recommend the AQA As French
Grammar notebook
French
For year 13:
“ Monsieur Ibrahim et les Fleurs du Coran” (
Author: Schmitt)
To ensure important grammar points are revised/consolidated
before starting the As course.
This book provides detailed, step-by-step support as well as
various activities, including exam style questions.
Both will be covered in year 13.
( Cultural topic)
“ Manon des Sources” Claude Berri (Movie)
Follow us on Twitter @UCGSGeo
https://twitter.com/UCGSGeo
Find out what’s happening in the UCGS department and to
read recommended articles.
Snowdon Field Studies Centre
Find out about our residential visit to Snowdon in March 2015
and what we’ll be investigating.
http://www.field-studiescouncil.org/centres/rhydycreuau.aspx
TED Geography talks
http://www.ted.com/conversations/topics/geo
graphy
The Guardian Population news
http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog+
world/population
Geography
The Guardian Flooding news
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/flo
oding
What are the causes and effects of the extreme flood events
we have experienced recently?
Good textbook outlining the key terms, processes and a range
of case studies.
Another good textbook outlining the key terms, processes with
a range of slightly older case studies.
AQA Geography AS: Student's Book, Smith, J.
th
and Knil, K, publ. 10 July 2008
Textbook which coves the Geographical Skills (AS Geography)
and Fieldwork (A2 Geography) examination papers.
The Economist, The Week, The New Statesman
These are Britain’s best broadsheet newspapers. All of them
are free online (except The Times) and will give you great
analysis of UK politics.
These are three really detailed weekly news magazines with
lots of thoughtful and interesting analysis and great writing.
Much of their content is also free online.
Viewing: BBC News, Newsnight, Channel 4
News, Dispatches (C4), The Andrew Marr Show,
Daily Politics
These are the broadest news and political around. They
feature lots of debates and interviews with politicians which
will broaden your understanding.
Servants of the People and The End of the Party
(both by Andrew Rawnsley)
Fascinating story-telling of New Labour’s time in power, from
Tony Blair’s stunning win in 1997 to the slide from power
during the 2007 recession.
Back from the Brink: The Inside Story of the Tory
Resurrection by Peter Snowdon
History
What are the issues now that the global population has soared
past 7 billion people?
AQA Geography AS Student Book, Ross, S. et
th
al, publ. 17 March 2011
AQA AS/A2 Geography Student Unit Guide,
unit 2 and 4a: Geographical Skills including
th
Fieldwork, Skinner, M. et al, publ. 26 August
2011
The Guardian, The Independent, The Telegraph,
The Times
Government
& Politics
Excellent TED talks linked to all things Geography to extend the
depth and breadth of your Geographical understanding.
“Dr. Zhivago”, Boris Pasternak
Interesting analysis of how the Conservatives reinvented
themselves after 20 years of failure and falling numbers of
voters.
Epic novel encompasses the Russian Revolution and
establishment of a communist state.
Subject
Recommended Reads
Why I should read this…
“Child 44” and “Agent 6”, Tom Rob Smith
Easy to read thrillers, set in Stalin’s terror state.
“Zorba the Dread”, Kingsley Amis
Powerful critique of Stalin’s regime.
“Animal Farm”, George Orwell
Powerful allegory of the History of Russia/USSR
“Young Stalin” and “The Court of the Red Tsar”,
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Biographical books about Stalin
Zero Biography of a dangerous idea
Charles Seife
Makers of Mathematics S. Hollingdale
(Penguin, 1989)
All the books give you an insight into mathematics, historical
references, to modern thinking
Alan Turing, the Enigma A. Hodges (Vintage,
1992)
Maths
Marcus du Sautoy The Music of the Primes
(Harper-Collins, 2003)
Simon Singh Fermat's Last Theorem (Fourth
Estate)
Marcus Du Sautoy Finding Moonshine: a
mathematician's journey through symmetry
(Fourth Estate, 2008)
Further
Maths
The MαTH βOOK Clifford A Pickover (Sterling,
2009)
as above
The Guardian’s Media website:
http://www.theguardian.com/media
http://www.themediablog.co.uk/
Media
Studies
Successful media students are those who keep up to date with
the news. These websites will help increase your awareness of
the contexts, issues and debates surrounding media.
http://mediastandardstrust.org/resources/med
ia-blogs-uk/
Follow us on twitter @UptonCourtMedia
Resources and revision tips
Also, please keep a list of the films you watch
over the summer.
Read the BBC Proms guide and select a
minimum of one concert per week to listen to –
Radio 3 is 90-92FM
Music
Either of these sources will broaden your knowledge of music
and provide a useful background for the A level course
Go to Naxos Music Library (login stbernardsmm
and password stbernardsmm). Find
resources/audiobook transcription/History of
Classical Music and peruse parts 1 and 2
The Photography Book [Paperback] Ian Jeffrey
Photography
http://www.art2day.co.uk/
Exploring the work of a plethora of prime photographers,
ranging from William Henry Fox Talbot to David Bailey and
Diane Arbus, The Photography Book spans the whole history of
photography.
Bringing conceptual art and independent learning to the
classroom gives students the opportunity to gain vital,
transferrable skills. Pupils will become creative thinkers and
will be more valuable in the workplace.
Subject
Recommended Reads
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/
Read this because it is really interesting AND helps you to
understand a bit about the development of something so
fundamental to Physics. You don’t need to be a boffin to read
this – it is an enjoyable read – I know because I have read it!
Mrs Upton
Any books on Design Periods or specific
Designers, e.g. Bauhaus, Art Nouveau, Mies Van
Der Rohe or Alvar Aalto.
Familiarise yourself with some design periods or designers as
this is part of the syllabus. You need to read about designers
and appreciate their work and style and then also be able to
write an essay on a designer as part of the exam at A2.
The Lucifer effect by Phillip Zimbardo
Introduces students to the concept of how behaviour can be
affected by outside forces.
Eyewitness Testimony by Elizabeth Loftus
Psychology
Religious
Studies
Spanish
Provides a rational for our study of memory and questions how
reliable or memories actually are.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Ken Kesey Fiction
Lord of the Flies William Golding Fiction
The Cases that Haunt Us John Douglas Non-Fiction
The Jigsaw Man Paul Britton Non-Fiction
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time Mark Haddon Fiction
In Cold Blood Truman Capote Fiction
The Case of Mary Bell Gitta Sereny Non-Fiction
It’s Not Me, It’s You Jon Richardson Non-Fiction
The Psychopath Test Jon Ronson Non-Fiction
Newspapers
Because you must be aware of religious and ethical
contemporary issues.
East is East by Ayub Khan-Din
La Casa de Bernarda Alba, Federico Garcia
Lorca
Como agua para chocolate, Laura Esquivel
Sports
Science
Launched in 2010, Colossal is a blog that explores art and other
aspects of visual culture. Each week you’ll find 15-25 posts on
photography, design, animation, painting, installation art,
architecture, drawing, and street art. Colossal is a reminder
that in this digital age there are still countless people making
incredible work with their bare hands.
‘E=mc2: A Biography of the World's Most
Famous Equation’ by David Bodanis
Physics
Product
Design
Why I should read this…
St Bernards
It raises a lot of very relevant issues. It’s different from
watching a film.
Both are studied in Year 13