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Weekly Homework Grids YEAR 7 BOOKLET 1 AUTUMN Name: _____________________________ Teacher: ____________________________ Room: ______________________________

How to complete the homework grids (Tasks 1-3) 1. Spelling 2. Grammar and punctuation 3. Vocabulary Pupils will see two words: one spelled correctly, the other is a common way of misspelling it. They should circle or highlight the correct spelling. This task will check pupils general knowledge of how to proof-read and correctly structure sentences. They might need to add missing capital letters and punctuation, or create sentences using key words. Pupils will be asked to find out the definition of a word. This word will be linked to the topic being studied in English. They can copy a definition from the dictionary or write it in their own words. Example: Key terms: Example: A complex sentence has a major and minor clause or part. The minor clause won't make sense without the major clause. As you can see from the example below, pupils must state the word type as well as the defintion: School Although it was raining, Laura didn't put her hood up. Education noun Skool A compound sentence is when two clauses are joined by a connective. These do make sense on their own. This means the process of receiving or giving systematic instruction, especially at a school or university, in order to learn. Laura brought her umbrella so she didn't need to wear her hood.

How to complete the homework grids (Tasks 4-6) 4. Reading Comprehension 5. Technique Pupils will be given a brief sentence or quote from a familiar text studied in class. The will need to work out what language technique has been used in the sentence/quote and write this in the space provided. 6. Challenge This final homework task will require pupils to complete a random task aimed at stretching and challenging them. The tasks will be a selection of the following: Transformation turn a piece of text into a simple image/turn an image into a description. Pupils will be required to read a passage from a text related to their English studies. They should read the passage then answer the question underneath it. The challenge task will require them to think about what is suggested by the technique and explain what it helps them to imagine or feel. (Please note: challenge tasks are NOT compulsory). Connections Map make links between the given words and explain how they link. Key terms: Example: Triangle rank order the given subject from best to worst, first to last, etc. Infer this means to read between the lines and make sensible guesses based on the evidence in the text. The cat fell heavily onto the mat. What is this technique? adverb Link to learning identify the task that links to a previous English lesson and explain the link. Analyse this means your child will need to work out the effect or impact of the writers' language choices. Challenge: what is the effect? The word heavily makes me imagine a very tired cat, who cannot walk any further. The fact that the cat fell, rather than sat or lay, suggests that it had no control over lowering its body, and the word heavily reinforces this lack of control. Listing Pupils will need to select four key details from the text based on the question focus.

Homework Grids Expectations - Firstly, complete the homework grid assigned. - Secondly, use your Knowledge Book of the 'how to' pages the front to help you. - Thirdly, email your teacher BEFORE the day it's due of you are struggling.

Year 7 English Weekly Recall Autumn 1.1 1. Spelling Identify the correct spelling: 2. Grammar and punctuation Add the missing punctuation 3. Vocabulary What is the meaning of this word? Industry Present maria packed her pencil case for school inside she placed her pencil ruler and pen Type of word _______ Presant Definition ____________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ 4. Reading Comprehension What can you infer about the place and people from this extract? The room in which the boys were fed, was a large stone hall, with a copper at one end: out of which the master, dressed in an apron for the purpose, and assisted by one or two women, ladled the gruel at meal-times. Of this festive composition each boy had one porringer, and no more- except on occasions of great public rejoicing, when he had 5. Technique 5. Challenge Which of the tasks on this sheet links to your learning this week? The thunder crashed and boomed outside the window. Answer: Task _____ What is this technique? ____________ Reason: ______________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ Challenge: what is the effect? _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ two ounces and a quarter of bread besides. _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________

Year 7 English Weekly Recall Autumn 1.2 1. Spelling Identify the correct spelling: 2. Grammar and punctuation Circle the complex sentence: 3. Vocabulary What is the meaning of this word? Carolina ate all the chocolate and she thought it was delicious. Inequality Dissapoint Type of word _______ Carolina ate all the chocolate, even though it was Maria s. Disappoint Definition ____________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ 4. Reading Comprehension I was angry with my friend; I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow. 5. Technique 5. Challenge: Transform the image into a short description: The silent snowflakes fell softly. What is this technique? ____________ Challenge: what is the effect? _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ What can you infer about how the person feels from this extract? _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________

Year 7 English Weekly Recall Autumn 1.3 1. Spelling Identify the incorrect spelling: 2. Grammar and punctuation Turn the following sentences into compound sentences: 3. Vocabulary What is the meaning of this word? Revolution Friend Dan + but + book _____________________________________ _____________________________________ Erika + so + Teddy _____________________________________ _____________________________________ Type of word _______ Freind Definition ____________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ 4. Reading Comprehension In industrial areas, children started work on average at eight and a half years old. Most of these young workers entered the factories as piecers, standing at the spinning machines repairing breaks in the thread. A few started as scavengers, crawling beneath the machinery to clear it of dirt, dust or anything else that might disturb the mechanism. In the mines, children usually started by minding the trap doors, picking out coals at the pit mouth, or by carrying picks for the miners. 5. Technique 5. Challenge Which of the tasks on this sheet links to your learning this week? Why won t she speak to me? What is this technique? ____________ Answer: Task _____ Challenge: what is the effect? _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ Reason: ______________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ List four things that you learn about child labour: 1____________________________________ 2____________________________________ 3____________________________________ 4____________________________________

Year 7 English Weekly Recall Autumn 1.4 1. Spelling Identify the correct spelling: 2. Grammar and punctuation Explain the effect of the dash. 3. Vocabulary What is the meaning of this word? She spoke quickly then she ran. _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ Morality Necessary Type of word _______ Neccessary Definition ____________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ 4. Reading Comprehension. It was a crazy, tumble-down old house, abutting of course on the river, and literally overrun with rats. Its wainscoted rooms, and its rotten floors and staircase, and the old grey rats swarming down in the cellars, and the sound of their squeaking and scuffling coming up the stairs at all times, and the dirt and decay of the place, rise up visibly before me, as if I were there again. 5. Technique 5. Challenge Transform this image into a short description: The man seemed lonely, confused and upset. What is this technique? ____________ What can you infer about the place from this extract? _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ Challenge: what is the effect? _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________

Year 7 English Weekly Recall Autumn 1.5 1. Spelling Identify the correct spelling: 2. Grammar and punctuation Write a description of your journey to school using two simple, one compound and one complex sentence: _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ 3. Vocabulary What is the meaning of this word? Innocence Paitent Type of word _______ Patient Definition ____________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ 4. Reading Comprehension. She was expecting some one, and with anxious eagerness; for she walked up and down the room; started at every sound; looked out from the window; glanced at the clock; tried, but in vain, to work with her needle; and could hardly bear the voices of the children in their play. 5. Technique 5. Challenge Think of better synonyms for the word sad: The sun smiled gratefully. What is this technique? ____________ How has the writer used language to present the woman? _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ Challenge: what is the effect? _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________

Year 7 English Weekly Recall Autumn 1.6 1. Spelling Identify the correct spelling: 2. Grammar and punctuation Add in all of the missing punctuation: 3. Vocabulary What is the meaning of this word? Experience as ive suggested my one saving grace is distraction it keeps me sane it helps me cope considering the length of time ive been performing this job the trouble is who could ever replace me Humor Type of word _______ Humour Definition ____________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ 5. Technique 5. Challenge Transform this sentence into an image: 4. Reading Comprehension. They left the busy scene, and went into an obscure part of the town, where Scrooge had never penetrated before, although he recognised its situation, and its bad repute. The ways were foul and narrow; the shops and houses wretched; the people half-naked, drunken, slipshod, ugly. Alleys and archways, like so many cesspools, disgorged their offences of smell, and dirt, and life, upon the straggling streets; and the whole quarter reeked with crime, with filth, and misery. What can you infer about the place from this? _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ Cheese is the single greatest thing in the history of humanity! I blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. What is this technique? ____________ Challenge: what is the effect? _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________

Year 7 English Weekly Recall Autumn 1.7 1. Spelling Identify the correct spelling: 2. Grammar and punctuation Correct/replace the incorrect commas: 3. Vocabulary What is the meaning of this word? Feminism Infierior Frank and Alice went to the shops and bought cake apples and toffees. Frank liked the cake but Alice preferred the apples. Type of word _______ Inferior Definition ____________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ 4. Reading Comprehension. Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott, in December 1, 1955. Parks rejected the bus driver's order to vacate a row of four seats in the "coloured" section in favour of a white passenger, once the "white" section was filled. The United States Congress has called her "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement". 5. Technique 5. Challenge Transform this image into a short description: The snow was like glistening treasure. What is this technique? ____________ Challenge: what is the effect? _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ List four things that you learn about Rosa Parks: 1____________________________________ 2____________________________________ 3____________________________________ 4____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________

Year 7 English Weekly Recall Autumn 1.8 1. Spelling Identify the correct spelling: 2. Grammar and punctuation Create a compound sentence: 3. Vocabulary What is the meaning of this word? Patriarchy Magnifsent House + but + fire Type of word _______ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ Magnificent Definition ____________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ 4. Reading Comprehension. International Women's Day is celebrated in many countries around the world. The purpose behind celebrating this day is to promote peace with women's rights. While every day is a women's day, this particular day is marked to honour all the women and their achievements regardless of the divisions, whether national, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, economic or political. 5. Technique 5. Challenge Can you think of better synonyms for the word scared ? We need answers. We need answers now. What is this technique? ____________ Challenge: what is the effect? _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ What can you infer about International Women's Day from the description? _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________

Year 7 English Weekly Recall Autumn 1.9 1. Spelling Circle the incorrect spelling, then correct it. 2. Grammar and punctuation Create two complex sentences, suing the following words: 3. Vocabulary What is the meaning of this word? Suffrage Defiance Homework + Holiday _____________________________________ _____________________________________ Share + Enemy _____________________________________ _____________________________________ Type of word _______ Defience Definition ____________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ 4. Reading Comprehension. We've learned that quiet isn't always peace And the norms and notions of what just is Isn't always just-ice And yet the dawn is ours before we knew it Somehow we do it What can you infer about freedom from the poem extract? _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ 5. Technique 5. Challenge Challenge: What are the connections between the words? The sofa cradled her in comfort. What is this technique? ____________ WOMEN POWER Challenge: what is the effect? _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ EXPECTATIONS FREEDOM PATRIARCHY RULES

Year 7 English Weekly Recall Autumn 1.10 1. Spelling Identify the correct spelling: 2. Grammar and punctuation Add the capital letters in the correct places: 3. Vocabulary What is the meaning of this word? Honor Marginalisation mrs peden went to italy and ate a pizza. Type of word _______ Honour Definition ____________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ 4. Reading Comprehension. Maya Angelou was an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years. She received dozens of awards and more than 50 honorary degrees. 5. Technique 5. Challenge Rank three of the poems we've studied this term in order of which has had the greatest impact on you: Explain your top choice. The fog wreaths came crawling round both corners of the house. What is this technique? ____________ Challenge: what is the effect? _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ _____________________________________ List four things that you learn about Maya Angelou: 1____________________________________ 2____________________________________ 3____________________________________ 4____________________________________