Year 8 Term 2 Week 1 Homework

1. Year 8 Term 2 Week 1 Homework D Complete the task but include an extra paragraph explaining what the pyjamas symbolise and what connotations they have. P Complete the gold task but include colour and be able to explain the effect this colour has on the reader. G Complete task but you must include three devices and explain the effect of these on the reader. S Complete the bronze task but you must include alliteration and an example of symbolism. B Design your own book cover for BISP. You must write two PEEL paragraphs explaining your choices and the effect on the reader.

2. Year 8 Term 2 Week 2 Homework D Complete the task but imagine that you are a journalist who has found this diary entry 50 years on. Write a newspaper article based on this particular diary entry. P Complete the gold task and write about how you think another character in the novel might be feeling or describe what they are like. G Complete the silver task and also include a range of language devices to describe that particular day. S Complete the bronze task and write about something that happened that day. B Write a diary entry for Bruno or Gretel. Describe how you feel at this point in the novel and include the setting.

3. Year 8 Term 2 Week 3 Homework D Complete the task below. Describe where you are sheltering, Who you are with? describe what you hear, see, smell and how you feel? Include a wide range of devices. P Research one of the air raids that happened during WW1. What do you imagine it would have been like to live through one of these air raids? How would you have survived? Write a diary entry for one of the air raids. G Complete the task. Imagine that you are a soldier in WW1, write a letter to a loved one. You must include a range of devices and describe the setting you are in as you write the letter. S Complete the bronze task, research the Holocaust and write a newspaper report where you report about a particular incident. B Understanding the historical context of the novel is the key to understanding the writer’s purpose in writing the novel and the novel’s message. Research the historical context of this novel and write a newspaper report on it.

4. Year 8 Term 2 Week 4 Homework D Complete the task but make the passage stronger by omitting some information from the reader. Use as many descriptive devices and appeal to the senses. Use a variety of different sentence lengths. P Complete the gold task and include the following vocabulary in your description: commandment, prejudice and dictator. G Complete the silver task and also include assonance, oxymoron and personification. S Complete the bronze task and also include alliteration, imagery, the senses, and short sentences. B Write a descriptive passage from the perspective of somebody in the concentration camp. Explain what a typical day was like. You must include an example of a simile or metaphor.

5. Year 8 Term 2 Week 5 Homework D Complete the task but also include rhetorical questions in your advert. Write a short passage from the point of view of a soldier fighting in the war and how important these ‘Spitfire’ planes are. Include a range of devices. P Complete the gold task and also include imperative verbs. G Complete the silver task and also include personal pronouns. S Complete the bronze task but instead create an advert. In your advert include features of persuasive writing such as Rule of Three and Repetition. B The RAF relied heavily on a fighter plane known as the ‘Spitfire’. Many say that without these planes, Britain and the Allied forces would have lost the war against Germany. Research these planes and write a letter persuading people to but a ‘spitfire’. Include 3-4 facts.

6. Year 8 Term 2 Week 6 Homework D Write a letter to the writer of the novel explaining how effective their novel was. Include bronze, silver, gold and platinum in your letter. P Complete the gold task and write about any symbols that were used in the story. How do you think the story could have been improved? What did the reader want to find out more about? G Complete the silver task and include how the reader was involved in the plot. What was the main message of this story? S Complete the bronze task and include the characters, the plot and the setting. How do these contribute to the moral message of the story. B Write a book review based on a story you have read that has carried a moral message. Write about if you like it or not and why.

7. Year 8 Term 2 Week 7 Homework D Complete the task but also include a wide range of devices. Address the audience in your speech. Make sure that you go into detail about how brutal the experience was and appeal to all the senses. Use a variety of different sentence lengths. P Complete the gold task and also include imperative verbs and a descriptive passage. G Complete the silver task and also include rhetorical questions. S Complete the bronze task but include personal pronouns and an anecdote. B Imagine you are Shmuel and you have survived the Holocaust. You have returned home after your experiences at Auschwitz and you have been asked to speak to local secondary school students about your ordeal. Write a 3-4 minute speech explaining what the worst moments were for you, how you coped with these challenges, and what you learnt about yourself during the time you were there.