Welcome back. Module 3 is Communication in Media: how stories, news and ads are built for different audiences, and how you read them with a sharper eye.
Four Key Assignments sit ahead this term: a reading-journey update, a three-channel coverage comparison, a real-scenario advertisement, and a film-and-text comparison. Today is setup, not a KA credit on its own. You start a Reading Journey Log and write Reflective Journal Entry 7 about what you met over the summer and what you want from this module. That work feeds the later reading-journey KA.
Three terms you will use all term:
| Term | What it means for you | Real example |
|---|---|---|
| Reading journey | Your log maps everything you have read, watched and listened to across two years | A novel, three podcasts and a summer film listed together |
| Textual material | Posts, ads and films count alongside books and articles | A bus-stop poster and a voice note both qualify |
| Media landscape | Module 3 trains you to notice how each form works in an ordinary day | Radio in a car, a feed, a billboard before lunch |
A strong Entry 7 does four jobs. It names specific pieces, says what stuck, links back to earlier modules, and names one clear aim. Read this short model:
Over the summer I listened to a three-part podcast about a county final I missed. I did not expect a sports podcast to feel like a story, but the host kept returning to one player who never got subbed on. That stuck with me more than the score. In Module 1 I stayed with the main text longer than I thought I would. In Module 2 I got better at checking who wrote a page before I trusted it. What I want from Module 3 is to see how the same news story changes when it moves from radio to a short video to a newspaper front page.
Notice: named pieces, one honest reaction, a link to earlier work, and a concrete aim.
Before you write, gather what you already have. Rate each line on the page and name the evidence: a title, a module, a moment. A rating with nothing behind it does not count. Your ratings are not saved: when you finish, press Copy for my portfolio and paste them into the box below.
This is the main piece today. Write Reflective Journal Entry 7 once in your Reflective Journal (that is its only home). Use the Think about list below as a planning scaffold. Then, on a new page at the back of the same journal, start your Reading Journey Log: at least ten items from Module 1, Module 2 and the summer. File a copy or photo of Entry 7 and the log in your Communication Portfolio as m3_l61_entry7_reading_log_<your-initials>.
Think about for Entry 7 (write these in your journal):
Aim for about 6–10 honest sentences. If your earlier record is thin or you joined mid-course, an honest shorter entry plus a solid ten-item log is enough. Titles from memory count; note gaps rather than inventing. Forms can be rough on the first pass (novel, podcast, film, post, ad, and so on).
Optional only: if voice-to-text or a Portfolio paste helps, draft once on the page and copy that same text into your journal. Do not produce two full versions in class.
Take one summer text from the entry you just wrote. Speak from your own notes to a partner: what it was, what stuck, and why it still matters to you now. Do not read the entry aloud. Everyone delivers to a partner; volunteers to the room only if time allows.
Bank a short record in your Communication Portfolio as m3_l61_oral_summer_text_<your-initials>: your notes and who heard you. The transcript on the page is enough if no recording is kept.
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