Year 8 Curriculum Handbook

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Year 8 English Overview Cycle 1 BIG QUESTION How do we decide what is right and what is wrong? Researching, Exploring and Analysing: ✓ History of Elizabethan and Jacobean England ✓ The Globe Theatre ✓ History of William Shakespeare ✓ Macbeth ✓ Extracts of Gothic Literature ASSESSMENT: Reading Response Cycle 3 BIG QUESTION Why should we study racism? Researching, Exploring and Analysing: ✓ America in the 1930s ✓ Extracts from To Kill A Mockingbird ✓ Extracts from Of Mice and Men ✓ ASSESSMENT: Reading Response Cycle 2 BIG QUESTION How can your writing reflect your personality? Exploring, Producing and Evaluating: ✓ Travel Writing ✓ Biography Writing ✓ Journal Writing ✓ Blog Writing ASSESSMENT: Creative Writing Task Cycle 4 BIG QUESTION What is the purpose of the news and the media? Exploring, Producing and Evaluating: ✓ Victorian Newspaper Articles ✓ Twentieth Century Newspaper Articles ✓ Modern Day Newspaper Articles ASSESSMENT: Creative Writing Task English Language Assessment Objectives: 1. Identify and interpret explicit/implicit ideas and information and to select and synthesise evidence. 2. Explain and comment on or analyse how writer’s use language/structure for effect and to use terminology. 3. Compare writer’s ideas/perspectives and explore how these are conveyed in texts. 4. Explore and evaluate texts critically and support this with appropriate textual reference. 5. Communicate clearly/imaginatively; adapt tone, style and purpose; effectively organise writing with structural features. 6. Use a range of vocabulary, sentence structures with accurate spelling and punctuation. 7. Demonstrate presentation skills in a formal setting 8. Listen and respond appropriately to spoken language including to questions and feedback. 9. Use spoken Standard English effectively English Literature Assessment Objectives: 1. Read, understand and respond to texts, using textual references. 2. Analyse language, form and structure used by a writer to create meanings, effects with appropriate terminology. 3. Show understanding of the relationships between texts and the contexts in which they were written. 4. Use a range of vocabulary and sentence structures for clarity, purpose and effect with accurate spelling and punctuation.
Year 8 English Overview Year 8 English focusses on building upon the key assessment objectives and skills found within the new GCSE specification. You will explore the key skills in a range of contexts. It is essential that you understand a range of different writing styles, genres and texts from different periods in time and can select appropriate techniques to solve practical problems. Lessons will include tasks based around actual GCSE questions so that preparation for your GCSE examination begins in Year 8. Extension work will be provided to stretch your knowledge into higher skills which will also be covered in future years. Reading Response: PEEL Paragraphs. When responding to any written texts, students are expected to use the PEEL paragraph structure. As they progress through the stages of Mastery they may find that they use this as the foundation of their paragraphs, but stick to the stages less rigidly. Point Evidence Explore Link This is the opening sentence of your paragraph, which must indicate what the paragraph is about. It should directly respond to your task title or question. This is a quotation taken from the text that is being studied, it should support or prove what has been said in the point. You should try to embed your quotation into a sentence. This is where you must explain in as much detail as possible what your evidence shows. Students should try to answer the questions below in full sentences to develop their exploration: 1. What does your quotation suggest or imply? 2. How does your quotation suggest or imply these things? 3. What effects are created by specific words, techniques or phrases in the quotation? 4. How is the reader or audience affected by the ideas in this quotation? 5. Why has the writer created these effects or ideas in the quotation? This should conclude what your quotation shows overall in relation to your point. It must re-address the task title or question. Punctuation and How to Use It: Full stop - . – used to end a sentence. They knew how to use a full stop in their writing. Comma - , – used to separate items in a list or subordinate clauses. Although the class still weren’t sure about semi-colons, they knew how to use commas in their work. Speech marks – “ ” – used to identify speech (new line for new speech). “Remember you must write four paragraphs.” repeated the teacher. Apostrophe – ‘ – used to show abbreviations or to show possession. They’d all borrowed one of Miss Crew’s pens. Exclamation mark - ! – used to show shock or surprise. The whole class scored an unbelievable 80/80 in the assessment! Question mark - ? – used to show something is a question. Why had it taken them so long to realise their teacher was trying to help? Brackets – ( ) – used to show additional information about something. Rebecca (a hardworking student) worked hard to improve her writing skills. Dashes - - used in the same way as brackets. Alex – a polite young man – tried his best to revise for his assessment. Colon - : - used to introduce a list or explanation. The girls had all of their equipment: a pen, a pencil, a ruler, a calculator, a reading book and a planner. Semi-colon - ; - used in the same way as ‘and’ to connect to related sentences. Ryan really wanted to do well in his assessment; he revised whenever he had chance.
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