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Hi guys,
Does anyone know of any websites that i could use to find my research on Poland in the communism era.
I have chose the film Katyn, the book popiol i diament and Poland in the communism era for my research task.
Thanks!

Reply 1

Sorry you've not had any responses about this. :frown: Are you sure you've posted in the right place? :smile: Here's a link to our subject forum which should help get you more responses if you post there. :redface:

Reply 2

Heyy in terms of the book i’m doing „Tango” by Sławomir Mrożek so i can’t rlly tell u specific pointers for your book but what i suggest doing is familiarising yourself with the plot of your book and perhaps create mind maps for each of the characters and themes (adding key quotes for each) that the essay question could be on, this technique would be pretty similar to gcse english literature. Also ensure you’ve got a solid foundation of high level vocab that you can include in your essays and maybe if your book has a historical background you could research that as well (AO3) for instance some high level vocabulary i would include in my essays would be „awangardyzm” „entropia” „anarchia”etc.

Luckily i’m doing the same movie as you! (Katyń) so is rlly recommend getting this book https://czytamimowiepopolsku.com/gb/a-levels-in-polish-exam/zeszyty-szkolne-3-a-level.html?srsltid=AfmBOortWRrj3DsPoI8I8avKMxpSuJCBnnRi-J60Hkh73jyAmLso5rQg8sM&product_rewrite=zeszyty-szkolne-3-a-level. It’s a rlly good guide which helps you build on the key ideas about the movie. Also make sure you’ve watched the movie at least 3 times - you should be able to explain the plot easily from memory. For Katyń it’s a movie pretty centered about history so i’d recommend revising things about history as well but the book in the link covers all that so it should be pretty useful.

In order to get the highest marks for the research project you have to cover all the bullet points of your chosen topic.
So in your case for communism you need to include (1) impact on everyday life (2) influence of the catholic church
(3) Solidarity movement. The way you answer the question is that you use the source to comment on these bullet points but also intertwine your own research that you may have researched or memorised beforehand. Maybe a good idea would be to do one paragraph per bullet point and add in an intro and conclusion as well. In your intro you can talk about roughly what communism is and give a little background info about how it was relevant in poland etc.
Hope that makes a bit more sense?

Oh and also this is a good book for the research project

https://czytamimowiepopolsku.com/gb/a-levels-in-polish-exam/zeszyty-szkolne-2-a-level.html

Lemme know if you have any other questions i'm doing tourism so i can help a bit

Reply 3

Original post
by lenalol
Hi guys,
Does anyone know of any websites that i could use to find my research on Poland in the communism era.
I have chose the film Katyn, the book popiol i diament and Poland in the communism era for my research task.
Thanks!

Hi,
I can't really help with Poland under communism but here's a link to the thread with other A-Level Polish students doing the same thing as you!
https://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=7547258

Reply 4

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by Zagil
Heyy in terms of the book i’m doing „Tango” by Sławomir Mrożek so i can’t rlly tell u specific pointers for your book but what i suggest doing is familiarising yourself with the plot of your book and perhaps create mind maps for each of the characters and themes (adding key quotes for each) that the essay question could be on, this technique would be pretty similar to gcse english literature. Also ensure you’ve got a solid foundation of high level vocab that you can include in your essays and maybe if your book has a historical background you could research that as well (AO3) for instance some high level vocabulary i would include in my essays would be „awangardyzm” „entropia” „anarchia”etc.
Luckily i’m doing the same movie as you! (Katyń) so is rlly recommend getting this book https://czytamimowiepopolsku.com/gb/a-levels-in-polish-exam/zeszyty-szkolne-3-a-level.html?srsltid=AfmBOortWRrj3DsPoI8I8avKMxpSuJCBnnRi-J60Hkh73jyAmLso5rQg8sM&product_rewrite=zeszyty-szkolne-3-a-level. It’s a rlly good guide which helps you build on the key ideas about the movie. Also make sure you’ve watched the movie at least 3 times - you should be able to explain the plot easily from memory. For Katyń it’s a movie pretty centered about history so i’d recommend revising things about history as well but the book in the link covers all that so it should be pretty useful.
In order to get the highest marks for the research project you have to cover all the bullet points of your chosen topic.
So in your case for communism you need to include (1) impact on everyday life (2) influence of the catholic church
(3) Solidarity movement. The way you answer the question is that you use the source to comment on these bullet points but also intertwine your own research that you may have researched or memorised beforehand. Maybe a good idea would be to do one paragraph per bullet point and add in an intro and conclusion as well. In your intro you can talk about roughly what communism is and give a little background info about how it was relevant in poland etc.
Hope that makes a bit more sense?
Oh and also this is a good book for the research project
https://czytamimowiepopolsku.com/gb/a-levels-in-polish-exam/zeszyty-szkolne-2-a-level.html
Lemme know if you have any other questions i'm doing tourism so i can help a bit

Hi Zagil, I'm doing polish A-level as well and noticed that we're doing the same book and I'm doing tourism as well!

I was wondering if you have any advice on the best way to revise for these? Is there anything I should be doing specifically for the research project and the book? Thanks for your help

Reply 5

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by Gooooey
Hi Zagil, I'm doing polish A-level as well and noticed that we're doing the same book and I'm doing tourism as well!
I was wondering if you have any advice on the best way to revise for these? Is there anything I should be doing specifically for the research project and the book? Thanks for your help

Hi, im doing Tourism aswell how does it all work, so im guessing you read the extract given and answer about it and then you pick another part of tourism in Poland?

Reply 6

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by Gooooey
Hi Zagil, I'm doing polish A-level as well and noticed that we're doing the same book and I'm doing tourism as well!
I was wondering if you have any advice on the best way to revise for these? Is there anything I should be doing specifically for the research project and the book? Thanks for your help

Hi, I’m doing the polish a level and my first paper is in exactly one month. I was wondering what did you end up doing to revise and how did it go? I’m doing the same book and tourism too, do you have any advice :smile:

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