Unit 1 - Holiday Homework

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The following activities are essential for you to complete in order to be prepared for next year:

1. Study Design Checklist

2. Chapter summary and glossary

3. Law in the Media

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1. Study Design Checklist

Read through Unit 1 of the Study Design (attached below go to page 12) to get familiar with what we will be learning.

Create your own checklist of the Key Knowledge dot points so that you can tick them off as you learn them.

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2. Chapter summaries and glossary

Read Chapter 1.1-1.3 of the textbook (scanned copy of all of Chapter 1 attached), and make notes of the key points that you read.

Create a glossary of the following terms:

Legal Rules

Non-Legal Rules

Criminal law

Civil law

Parliament

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3. Law in the Media

Have you heard any stories in the news lately involving a crime, a court case, or a new law being created?

Find an article in the news that involves making or breaking the law and be prepared to bring it in to discuss with the class.

Below is an example

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To get ahead in Legal Studies, you can complete a combination of the following tasks.

 

1. Past SAC

Have a go at the 2014 SAC for Outcome 1 below (you can choose to try it open or closed book)

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2. Talk to someone who has studied Legal Studies before. What were some challenges in the subject, and what useful advice can they give you to get ahead?

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Below are copies of practice SACs for all outcomes. This means that at the beginning of each topic you can have a look at last year's SAC to see what you're up against.

(this is not a compulsory part of the holiday homework, but a place you can come back to over the year).

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