Year 7 Homework Activities - Autumn Term 1

Each week, you must choose a homework task from one of the columns below. Be sure to write the task title at the top of your work. You may only complete a task once throughout the half term. Choose the tasks that challenge you and help you develop as a learner.
Developing Skills of Understanding Read for at least 25 minutes and write down 10 new words you have found from your reading book. Dene these words. Get a parent to sign your book or planner to say you have completed this task. Ext: Use these new words in 10 sentences of your own. Find and print at least one poem by one of the poets were have studied in class on the theme of identity. Ext: Underline a language device in the poem and try to explain how this device has an effect on the poem. Research the life of a poet we have studied in class. You should handwrite ve facts about this poet. Ext: nd and print at least one other poem by this poet. Design and label a new front cover for the book you are reading. Write at least ve sentences to explain why this new cover is effective. Developing Skills of Analysis Read for at least 25 minutes and write chapter summaries/a report. Developing Creative Writing Skills Turn a part of your novel into a comic/script/poem. How does the meaning/content change after you have completed this? Try to write at least one PEA paragraph that answers this question: How does the poet use language devices to present identity in any of the poems you have studied over the last half term? Plan and Write a new chapter for your book in the style of the writer. How will you use: - punctuation; - vocabulary; - sentence structures? Plan and write a poem of your own inspired by the poem studied in class today. Your poem must: - not rhyme - use engaging vocabulary - use sentence structures and vocabulary to create a clear rhythm - have a clear meaning - try to evoke an emotion - be at least two stanzas long Plan and write a poem of your own on the theme of identity Your poem must: - not rhyme - use engaging vocabulary - use sentence structures and vocabulary to create a clear rhythm - have a clear meaning - try to evoke an emotion - be at least two stanzas long

Write a new blurb for your reading book. Remember to include: -Character names (and role); - setting - catalyst/quest Find and print one poem by one of the poets we have been studying in class. Underline at least three language devices and try to comment on how these devices have had an effect on the poem. Read for at least 25 minutes and choose ve quotations from your novel to explain what has happened in the section you have read. Remember: - use quotation marks; - each quotation must be no more than 10 words. Ext: write a topic sentence to explain why you have chosen each quotation.

Dene the following keywords and provide examples from poems that you know or we have studied: personication, anthropomorphic, simile, metaphor, assonance, sibilance. Remember: you can use a dictionary to help but the words you use must be your own.

Plan and create a leaet that helps students revise ve different language devices and poetry. You must: - use diagrams; - refer to existing poems; - use humour where you can; - use an effective layout.