- Year 8 Schemes of Work

SoW ASSESSMENT TIMETABLE MAGIC HOMEWORK IDEAS Travelling the Universe – Final Assessment – Transactional Writing: • Rhetorical techniques Write about a Science Fiction Writing Write a persuasive advert to a fictional • Structuring transactional writing using time you took a (8weeks) world. conjunctions and discourse markers journey • Fronting and embedding of clauses and Key Texts/Extracts: adverbials Trip advisor Extract from The Time • Four main sentence types: declarative, review HAT Task – Writing: Machine - H G Wells interrogative, imperative, exclamative The opening and/or closing paragraph of All Summer in a Day - Ray • Simple, complex and compound Spelling Lists

the transactional piece

1 Bradbury sentences A Sound of Thunder – Ray • Punctuating speech correctly Transactional Bradbury Peer Assessment – Reading: writing ‘How-to’ PETAZ paragraph analysing one of the • Using punctuation for effect Mortal Engines – Philip Reeve Paragraphing (TiPToP) leaflet extracts from the list of Key Texts/Extracts

Grammar tasks Autumn term Autumn Reading for AR

TiF Tasks: Design your own Utopia/Dystopia

Reading Lists: Around the World in Eighty Day/ Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne; The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams; The TiF Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien; Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling; Gulliver’s Travels by Johnathan Swift; The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis.

Year 8 Schemes of Work

SoW ASSESSMENT TIMETABLE MAGIC HOMEWORK IDEAS 20th and 21st Century Non-fiction Final Assessment – Reading: Biography of a Arden House Icons (7weeks) Evaluating the success of the writer’s attempt • Facts/Statistics/Opinions family member to engage the reader. • Direct address Resources: • Emotive language Fact files about • Whole text structure each Arden Icon Extract from Attenborough’s • Verb tense autobiography. HAT Task - Reading: • Narrative Voice Spelling Lists Obituary of Rosa Parks Evaluation of one of the extracts not being • Vocabulary choice Florence Nightingale: An angel of used for the assessment. Article mercy? comprehension Einstein’s letter to Marie Curie Peer Assessment - Writing: Removal of Darwin in schools: an A choice of imaginative and/or transactional Dictionary evolutionary step backwards. tasks e.g. write about an iconic definitions moment/writing to argue- who is your icon of Great Britain? Grammar tasks Autumn term 2 2 term Autumn Reading for AR

TiF Tasks: Role play of news bulletins https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/fun-weekly-news-quiz-updated-every-school-week-6444996

Reading Lists: Odd Boy Out: Young Albert Einstein by Don Brown; Women in Science: Fifty Fearless Pioneers who Changed the World by Rachel Ignotofsky; Little TiF Leaders: Bold Women in Black History by Vashti Harrison; Adventures of a Young Naturalist by David Attenborough; The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank.

Year 8 Schemes of Work

SoW ASSESSMENT TIMETABLE MAGIC HOMEWORK IDEAS Novel (6weeks) Main Assessment – Reading: • Narrative Voice Storyboard An analysis of an extract which then links to the • Vocabulary choice pupils’ study of the whole text – to be set by the • Sentence structure Chapter Witch Child class teacher. • Whole text structure Summaries Chains • Prolepsis and analepsis Mortal Engines • Using punctuation for effect Spelling lists Stone Cold • Use of figurative language My Name is Mina HAT Task – Reading: • Paragraphing Author research

Ruby in the Smoke A PETAZ paragraph, analysing the writer’s use of • Genre Google Classroom language and structure in a section of the text quizzes

Peer Assessment – Writing: Draw and label A choice of imaginative and/or transactional tasks e.g. image stimulus from the novel or advise to the novel’s

Spring term 1 term Spring setting the homeless/ those facing injustices.

Chapter

comprehension

Reading for AR

TiF Tasks: Pre-learning for next term e.g. Give by Simon Armitage to link with Stone Cold. Organise a fundraiser Reading Lists:

Noughts and Crosses Trilogy by Malorie Blackman; Pig Heart Boy by Malorie Blackman; The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton; The Tulip Touch by Anne Fine; Lord of the Flies by George Orwell; The Bunker Diary by Kevin Brooks; The Hate you Give by Angie Thomas; Refugee Boy by Benjamin TiF Zephaniah

Year 8 Schemes of Work

SoW ASSESSMENT TIMETABLE MAGIC HOMEWORK IDEAS Pre and Post-1914 Poetry Final Assessment - Reading: • Simile Write your own (6weeks) Comparison of two poems, one pre-1914 and • Metaphor poem one post-1914 from the list of named poems • Personification • Onomatopoeia Spelling lists Pre-1914: • Alliteration – sibilance Sonnet 130 – William Shakespeare HAT Task - Reading: • Caesura Poetic devices A Birthday – Christina Rossetti A comparative paragraph of two poems NOT • Enjambment comprehension Westminster Bridge – Wordsworth being used for the final assessment • Stanza Contextual • Assonance (getting the rhyme research Post-1914: Peer Assessment - Writing: wrong) You’re – Sylvia Plath A short transformational piece of writing • Choice of verbs and adjectives Give – Simon Armitage using one of the poems as a stimulus Reading for AR • Syllable patterns Valentine – Carol Ann Duffy • Using punctuation for effect Digging – Seamus Heaney • Paragraphing (within the essay) Nettles – Vernon Scanell • Comparative conjunctions Spring term 2 Climbing My Grandfather – Andrew Waterhouse No. 115 Dreams – Jackie Kay

Tif Tasks: Unseen analysis of Sonnet 18/ Analysis of ‘The Love Poem’ by Carol Ann Duffy

Reading Lists:

TiF The Rattlebag: An Anthology of Poetry Edited by Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes; The Golden Treasury: Of English Verse by Francis Turner Palgrave; What is Poetry? The Essential Guide to Reading and Writing Poems by Micheal Rosen; The Shakespeare Stories by Andrew Matthews; The Fault in our Stars by John Green; Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon; The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky.

Year 8 Schemes of Work

SoW ASSESSMENT TIMETABLE MAGIC HOMEWORK IDEAS 19th Century Ghost Stories Final Assessment – YEAR 8 EXAM • Juxtaposition Create a graphic (5weeks) Multiple Choice Grammar Quiz and Imaginative • Repetition novel/storyboard Key Texts/Extracts: Writing • Dashes •The Monkey’s Paw • Hyphens Spelling lists •The Tell-Tale Heart • Metaphor • Simile Reading for AR Additional Texts / Extracts: HAT Task - Writing: • Onomatopoeia •The Open Door Describe the setting for a ghost story • Semantic field Comprehension activities •The Open Window • Foreshadowing •‘Oh, Whistle, And I’ll Come to Peer Assessment - Reading: • Genre You, My Lad’ Two PETAZ paragraphs analysing the ending Write about a •The Terrible Old Man and/or the setting of one of the stories. time you felt •The Red Room scared

Summer term 1

TiF Tasks: Evaluation: how successfully do the writers build tension or fear?

Reading Lists:

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman; Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs; One of Us in Lying by Karen M. McManus; A Murder Most Unladylike by Robin Stevens; Roald Dahl’s book of Ghost Stories; The Little Girl Eater MS Waddell; The Black Cat by Edgar Allan TiF Poe; Horowitz Horror by Anthony Horowitz.

Year 8 Schemes of Work

SoW ASSESSMENT TIMETABLE MAGIC Homework Ideas Shakespeare Unit (7weeks) Final Assessment – Speaking and Listening: • Iambic pentameter Research about A minimum of a 4minute presentation on a topic • Blank verse the Globe Theatre 1) Introduction to related to the play or context e.g. • Figurative language Shakespeare -Elizabethan Theatre. • Language change over time Spelling Lists -Shakespeare’s Globe. • Foreshadowing -Shakespeare’s Life. • Puns and wordplay Reading for AR 2) A Midsummer Night’s -Treatment of women in the play Dream or Romeo and -Theme of conflict in the play Costume design Juliet -Theme of love in the play for characters

Write about a time you felt HAT Task -Reading: conflicted At least two PETAZ paragraphs analysing a key section of the play. Shakespeare’s Legacy Summer term 2 Peer Assessment – Writing: An imaginative or transactional task, based on the needs of the group, using the chosen play as a stimulus.

TiF Tasks: Create a model of Shakespeare’s Globe Perform scenes from the play

TIF Reading Lists: The Shakespeare Stories by Andrew Matthews; King of Shadows by Susan Cooper; Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman; Chinese Cinderella byAdeline Yen Ma; Potion Diaries Collection by Amy Alward; How Hard Can Love be? by Holly Bourne; Rebound by Kwame Alexander.

Year 8 Schemes of Work

Year 8 Schemes of Work