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Ark John Keats Year 8 Home Learning Booklet Ark John Keats Year 8 Home Learning Booklet Autumn term Name: Form tutor Class form: Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday HL 1 HL 2 HL3 1 Contents page Maths………………………………………………..…….…pg.3 English……………………………………………..……...pg.10 Science……………………………………………….…pg.26 French………………………………………………......…pg.52 Art…………………………………………………………...pg.68 History……………………………………………………..pg.82 Geography……………………………………………..…pg.98 Music………………………………………………………p.g116 How to use this booklet Use your mastery pages to understand the key ideas, knowledge and skills you need for this unit. Make sure you are regularly returning to this mastery knowledge and adding the understanding you develop in your lessons to it. Look, cover, write, check. This is an excellent way to revise and we have built this HL booklet to encourage this. When completing your consolidation tasks re-read your mastery pages and then cover them up. Use your memory to complete the activities and then return to the mastery pages to check you have got the answer correct. 2 Year 8 Maths FACTORS of a number are the integers (whole numbers) that it can be exactly divided by. MULTIPLES of a number are the numbers in its times table. Multiples of 5: 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, … Writing a number as a product of primes means finding the prime numbers that multiply to make that number. This is also called prime factorisation or prime factor decomposition. PRIME NUMBERS have exactly two factors. The first ten primes are: The HIGHEST COMMON FACTOR or 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23 and 29. HCF of a pair of numbers is the highest number that is a factor of both of them. The HCF of 8 and 1 is not a prime number because it only has one factor. 12 is 4 because 4 is the biggest number that 8 and 12 can both be divided by The LOWEST COMMON MULTIPLE or LCM of pair of numbers is the lowest number that is a multiple of both. The LCM of 4 and 6 is 12 – 12 is the smallest number that is in the 4 times table and in the 6 times table. 3 You can use factor trees and Venn diagrams to find the HCF or LCM. To find the HCF,multiply all the prime factors in the intersection (middle) of the Venn diagram. To find the LCM, multiply all the factors in the Venn diagram. A FRACTION is a number that describes equal parts of a whole. The NUMERATOR is the number on top. It tells you how many of those parts you have. 35 The DENOMINATOR is the number on the bottom of a fraction. It tells you how many parts the whole is broken into. 4 You can find an equivalent fraction by multiplying or dividing the numerator and denominator by the same amount. You can SIMPLIFY a fraction by dividing the numerator and denominator by the same number until you can’t find any more numbers that both are divisible by. To find a fraction of an amount, you can draw a bar model: 5 To convert between mixed numbers and improper fractions, you can draw a diagram, or follow these steps: If they have different numerators, follow these steps: 6 If you are asked to increase an amount by a percentage, you need to work out that percentage and add it to the original amount. If you are asked to decrease, subtract it from the original amount. A coat used to cost £40, but its price is decreased by 20% in the sale. How much does it cost now? 10% = 40 ÷ 10 = £4 20% = 10% x 2 = £8 New price: £40 - £8 = £32 REVERSE PERCENTAGES Sometimes, you will know the new value after a percentage increase or decrease and you want to find the original value 7 An ARITHMETIC SEQUENCE is one where you add or subtract to find the next term. A TERM is a number in the sequence. In the sequence 5, 8, 11, 14, 17, … the first term is 5. The NTH TERM RULE of a sequence is a way of describing it algebraically. Find the first three terms of the sequence Find the nth term for the sequence 1, 5, 9, 13, … generated by 2n + 7. 1st term n is 1 1 5 9 13 2×1+7=9 +4 +4 +4 2nd term n is 2 2×2+7=11 We are adding 4 each time so the nth term starts 3rd term n is 3 with 4n. 2×3+7=13 The 0th term would be -3. The nth term is 4n – 3. The sequence is 9, 11, 13, … 8 9 Year 8 English- Sherlock Holmes Mastery Content: English In English lessons this term, you will learn about one of the most iconic characters in the history of English Literature, Sherlock Holmes, a fictional private detective. The mastery content for this term will include biographical information about the author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as contextual information about crime and scientific development in Victorian London. Most importantly, you will need to gain a full and detailed understanding of the stories and characters of Sherlock Holmes and his friend Watson. You will study three different Sherlock Holmes stories: ‘A Scandal in Bohemia’, ‘The Red-Headed League’ and ‘The Blue Carbuncle’ A) Biographical information about the author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle lived between 1859-1930; he wrote in The Victorian Era. He studied medicine at Edinburgh University, which reflects the creation of the character of Sherlock Holmes, who uses scientific methods to solve crimes. At Edinburgh University, he was taught by a surgeon called Dr. Joseph Bell. Bell was a medical practitioner who often diagnosed his patients extremely quickly by noticing the smallest details about them, and for this reason is thought to be Conan Doyle’s inspiration behind creating the character of Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock’s main characteristic is his impressive skill of deduction. Sherlock Holmes was not the first fictional detective, but he is the most iconic. Even in the modern day, there is a popular ‘Sherlock’ TV series which puts a modern twist on Conan Doyle’s classic stories. Sherlock Holmes stories were published in ‘periodicals’ each month in ‘The Strand’ magazine. 10 B) Context: Crime and Scientific Methods in Victorian London The Sherlock Holmes stories are set in Victorian London, so it is important to understand some facts about this time. The Victorian Era spanned from 1837-1901. London was the largest city in the world. The Industrial Revolution meant that many people moved from the countryside to major UK cities such as London to work in places like factories. Because of this, cities like London quickly became over populated. Many people in Victorian London lived in poverty. They lived in cramped living conditions with very little money. Busy streets crammed full of poor and desperate people meant that crime in London increased significantly during this time. Another reason why crime was such a big problem was because there were not sophisticated methods of dealing with crime – there were no modern technologies such as DNA tracing or CCTV to catch criminals. This meant that criminals could get away with committing crimes without being detected. The police force itself only emerged in 1829 as a direct result of rising crime rates - before this date, no proper police force existed. Crime was still a problem after the establishment of the police force. In the Victorian Era, many people died from a disease named Cholera. John Snow used scientific methods using maps and surveys to uncover information about the source of cholera outbreaks. Increasingly, scientists and doctors began to rely on new scientific methods. John Snow used new revolutionary methods in his field. The character Sherlock Holmes can be seen to be in some way inspired someone such as Snow; Sherlock also takes a scientific approach to solving crime. C) Main characters: Sherlock and Watson Sherlock Holmes Doctor John Watson • A hugely impressive detective • John Watson is the narrator of the • Makes rapid and accurate deductions Sherlock Holmes stories; the reader about people as soon as he meets them views Sherlock from the perspective of • Able to solve mysteries because of his Watson impressive deductions • Watson is a medical doctor who at • Takes a scientific approach to solving one time lived with Sherlock crime, for instance, analysing handwriting. • He may be described as He also understands human psychology. Sherlock’s dear friend and ‘side-kick’ • Has a dual nature: sometimes he is full • Watson is much slower at making of manic energy and this helps him solve deductions than Sherlock and, like crimes, other times, he is introspective and readers, is amazed by Sherlock’s calm. In these introspective moments, he deductive skills. Watson is an intelligent likes to be left alone in his thoughts so that man himself as a doctor, but his intellect he can be able to process information and is no match for Sherlock. solve the mystery he is working on • Is a private detective and does not think highly of the police force • Sometimes arrogant about his own capabilities • Is eccentric and enigmatic 11 D) Other characters from the stories From ‘A Scandal in Bohemia’: • Irene Adler – a famous American opera singer who had a relationship with the future King of Bohemia. To Holmes, she is ‘the woman’ – she changes his mind about women. He previously ‘made jokes about’ women, but Irene Adler impresses him because she manages to outsmart him. • King of Bohemia –The King is engaged to a Scandinavian princess but five years previously was madly in love with Irene Adler. From ‘The Red Headed League’: • Jabez Wilson – a London pawnbroker who has distinctively red hair.
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