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Year 8 – Easter Home Learning

Physical and Everyday We would encourage you to take part in daily well being exercises. For example you could join an mental wellbeing online workout - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ with Joe Wickes and get the whole family to join in. This will set you up to be successful in your studies for the rest of the day. English Easter week 1 Create a mindmap/ list of key quotations from the play. Store this for your future records. Easter week 2 Write a poem from the perspective of Caliban English Language Easter week 1 N/A Easter week 2 N/A Maths Easter week 1 Pick one of these famous to research and make a poster about: Pythagoras, Archimedes, Euclid, Blaise , , , Isaac , Ada Lovelace, Carl Friedrich

You should include: Some facts about their life, an explanation of why their contribution to was important

You could include: Any other interesting information you find out, pictures Easter week 2 Complete these past exam ratio questions. Use the solutions here to mark your work. Easter week 1 Complete the Seneca assignment labelled ‘Easter homework week 1’ Easter week 2 Complete the Seneca assignment labelled ‘Easter homework week 2’ Art Easter week 1 https://arkjohnkeats.org/sites/default/files/Art%20Homework%20booklet_7%20and%208_0.pdf 1. Complete page 10 on and texture using pencil and where possible colouring pencil. Fill the box for your drawings – your best effort! 2. Complete page 11 and 12 on ‘rubbings’ as home-learning. This is new content – a rubbing means placing an object with texture under your paper and shading over it with pencil to get the printed texture. See the examples on page 11 to help you to complete this. Easter week 2 1. Read the instructions on page 13 – highlight the key words. 2. Read the instructions at the top of page(s) 14 and 15 and complete the tasks underneath in the boxes. Use pencil and colouring pencil or pen where possible – try your best! Your neatest work. Drama Easter week 1 Complete Task One on your Easter Home Learning sheet here: https://arkjohnkeats.org/secondary/secondary-home-learning/y8-home-learning Easter week 2 Complete Task Two on your Easter Home Learning sheet: https://arkjohnkeats.org/secondary/secondary- home-learning/y8-home-learning French Easter week 1 Complete the speaking revision task here: https://arkjohnkeats.org/sites/default/files/French%20AP2%20Revision%20Pack_0.pdf

Easter week 2 Complete the grammar revision task here: https://arkjohnkeats.org/sites/default/files/French%20AP2%20Revision%20Pack_0.pdf Geography Easter week 1 Create a poster to raise awareness about the importance of glaciers for people Easter week 2 Complete the pre reading and questions about your new topic: Coasts History Easter week 1 Write a diary entry pretending to be a Medieval peasant in England. You should include the following: *What was your life like as a child? *What happened during the Black Death in 1348? *Why was the Black Death a sad time? *Why did your life improve after the Black Death? *Why did you revolt against the King in 1381?

Easter week 2 Watch this video on the story of Black migrants in England in Tudor times https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/history-ks3--gcse-the-story-of-black-migrants-in- england-in-tudor-times/zf8nqp3 Answer these questions in your exercise book: 1. How long have there been Black people in England for? 2. Who was John Blanke? 3. What kind of jobs did Black people in England do at this time? 4.Approximatley how many Black people were there in England in Tudor times? 5.What surprises you about this video?

Music Easter week 1 Listen to two pieces of music that you haven’t listened to before. Write down 5 bullet points about each piece of music: • The style • The instruments • The mood and key (major and minor) • The dynamics (volume) • The texture. Easter week 2 Go onto Groove Pizza and create your own drum beat https://apps.musedlab.org/groovepizza/?

PE Easter week 1 Create a poster to raise awareness about the importance of a healthy and balanced diet Easter week 2 Create a mind-map focussing on the characteristics of skilful performance (PECAF)