1. Skills being practiced:
Year 7 | English Homework Tasks | Term: Autumn 1 | Topic: An Introduction to Shakespeare
Instructions: Each week you will complete one piece of homework. This will be either one of the activities below, or revision from your Knowledge Organiser for a test in class. Your teacher will let you know what homework activity you’re doing and when this should be handed in.
Skills being practiced:
Reading Skills:
Show your understanding of what you have read by using quotations and analysing the effect of these on the audience or reader.
Writing Skills:
Show off your range of vocabulary, your understanding of grammar and your ability to write creatively.
Creative Challenge:
You can present this piece of work in any way that you choose: make sure that you think creatively!
Research Challenge:
You will need to use a computer or a library to help you find the information needed to complete this task.
Homework activity:
Select your favourite quotation from one of Shakespeare’s plays that you have studied.
You may need your exercise book for this.
Analyse the meaning of it by using a MQA paragraph.
Reminder: MQA stands for Method, Quotation, Answer (analysis)
Try to imagine that you are living in Shakespeare’s time.
You are trying to encourage more people to visit the theatre.
Write a persuasive speech to encourage other people of your age to visit the theatre.
Use persuasive techniques to sell the positive points of going to the theatre to them, such as: Alliteration, Repetition, Rhetorical questions, Emotive language, Statistics, Triples, Exaggeration, Direct address.
Choose to either:
1. Design and make a model version of Shakespeare’s Globe theatre.
You may wish to look at the official website to help you plan your model:
Choose one of Shakespeare’s sonnets and write down why you think it is meaningful in the 21stcentury, OR what you like about it as a reader in 2019. OR
What is your first impression of Macbeth?
How effective is Shakespeare in creating a supernatural and tense atmosphere?
Write one paragraph for each question to explain your point of view.
Create a plan for a modern day adaptation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
Your plan must include:
Setting
Characters
Plot Line: Beginning, Middle and End
Design a costume for a male or female character in one of the plays you have studied.
Find out what a Shakespearean sonnet is.
How many did Shakespeare write? Why did he write them? What are sonnets often about?
Create a fact file on your research.
Don’t forget to check your spellings and word choice by using your Gem when completing your homework.
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