Year 8 Hamlet Reading Assessment

If you need an online copy of the text click here for the original

Or here for a No Fear Shakespeare version

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Thank you for those who participated in our live audience feedback session, your comments have been appreciated greatly by the Media students.

For those who haven't seen them yet, click below to get to the year 13 trailer page on the VLE - after you have watched them all, click the link at the bottom to vote for your favourite!

Homework - Shakespeare Research

Thank you for your patience with our iPad lesson - you were one of the first classes to use these useful resources so difficulties were anticipated and noted for future reference.

As we had a few teething problems, here is this week's homework for the end of the week, to be posted on your Blog:

Research who Shakespeare was using the page at http://www.tinyurl.com/deyesenglish

I would also like some in depth research into Shakespeare's own theatre and some interesting information on this :-) You may need to do some web research on some other websites for this,

8H homework should be completed without copy and pasting but using facts and statistics from reliable sources.

Therefore, I would like two sections to your blogposting:

1. Who was Shakespeare?

2. The Globe Theatre

This should be thorough with links to what websites you have read at the bottom of your homework: This is what we call a bibliography, as it shows where you have gotten your information from. Your work should be a few hundred words so if you have only done a handful of sentences, you will need to revise your post.

Year 7 and 8 Table Tennis Club

Following the recent success of the U16 Girls team in the Merseyside Schools tournament, we are looking to get more U13 Girls (Year 7 and 8) into the sport.

We are holding a new table tennis night on a Thursday. For those who do other sports on a Thursday you may find you can come to table tennis before you go to your other activity.

The year 9 girls are going to offer coaching as well give every pupil who turns up their own time using the training robot - FUN!

Limited spaces, we're only going to allow the first 8 pupils on Thursday so get there as early as you can as the whole point is to keep it a bit calmer than the often chaotic Monday night session that regularly gets 25+ attending.

Any questions come and see me
Mr H

Act 1 Scene 5 Hamlet Creations!

If I took a snap of yours, find it and repost it on yours with a description of what you made with a bit more detail - show off your knowledge of Act 1 Scene 5

Act 1 Scene 1 worksheet - download using this link

http://www.speedyshare.com/7pr7P/hamlet-act-1-qs.pdf
Follow the link to download the activity sheet for Hamlet Act 1 Scene 1 - I only want you to look at the first page of this, with the grid to fill in using Act 1 Scene 1

Hey There Ophelia!

Hamlet inspired song - Hey There Ophelia by MC Lars (Behind the cut)

Movember Fundraising

Fundraising efforts for Movember. £2 donations acceptable. Donations do not = grade boosts but may result in +1000 good karma.

Click the pic to check on progress or offer a supportive message on my Mo Growing journey this November..

Mr H

Assessment tomorrow for those who missed it first time

For the couple of you who didn't do it first time round... (Tomorrow)

TASK: To produce a magazine article for young people, that is an introduction to the sport you have researched for homework, to be displayed on the school VLE

Half Term Homework: Recreations task

Part 1: Take the title of or a line from a Shakespeare play and use it as the title for your own piece of writing.

It is not necessary to keep the same characters in exploring similar themes, relationships, ideas. For example: A soliloquy exploring mixed feelings could become a modern dramatic monologue; Capulet's verbal assault on his ungrateful daughter could become the basis of a short story about parent / child relationships; The opening scenes of Macbeth could become the opening of a modern story based on similar events and characters.

Possible titles for your story:
(Not including the most famous plays that you mentioned in class)

• A Love's Laboured Lost
• A Winter's Tale
• Twelfth Night
• Much Ado About Nothing
• A Midsummer Night's Dream
• The Taming of the Shrew
• Measure for Measure

Famous lines from Shakespeare that could be used as the title of your story

• A rose by any other name would smell as sweet
• Something wicked this way comes
• A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse
• To be, or not to be, that is the question
• All the world's a stage
• Now is the winter of our discontent
• We are stuff that dreams are made of
• If music be the food of love play on
• Midsummer madness
• What light through yonder window breaks?

Part 2: Once enough people have posted up their homework, I would like you to post a comment on their story. Tell them a couple of specific things you liked about their work - nothing too vague - and then if you can think of something, suggest one way to improve. Very similarly to the Three ticks and a wish idea you may have seen in other subjects.

DEADLINE: First lesson back after Half Term.

Any problems, comment on this post and will get back to you.
Mr H

Do you know your username and password?

There are still 12 people who haven't posted to tell me that they know their username and password. I need to know whether you can log in or not! If there are any problems we need to get them sorted.

Competition Results

Well done to everybody who entered the competition - in the end it was very close! However, two pupils got 100% on the quiz so Abbi Higham (7GH) and Callum Beeston (8RH) will both be receiving the prizes of the Hunger Games trilogy in due course. You both know your book villains!

WRITING ASSESSMENT FRIDAY: Sport Magazine Article

TASK: To produce a magazine article for young people, that is an introduction to the sport you have researched for homework, to be displayed on the school VLE

No Blogs. Sad face.

Right now this second, I cannot see Blogs from the following people. If they do exist, please reply with the Blog address so I can cross you off my hitlist. Thanks!
Faye B
Erin R

Do you know your book villains?

Here is the link to the book villains competition.

The closing date is Monday 1st October.

You can submit your answers using the submission box on the competition page.

The winner will be the person with the most points - if there's a draw, we will select one entry at random.

The prize is a brand new set of the Hunger Games trilogy of books :-)

What was the last book you read?

Or go to http://wallwisher.com/wall/readingdeyes

Homework details

For Thursday:

·      PART 1: Set up your Blog at www.blogger.com

·         Dhsenglishjsmith.blogspot.com – dhsenglish followed by your first initial and your surname

·         (This is where we are going to publish our sport articles - and most homework tasks with me this year!)

Then find the quiz on my page at dhsenglishmrhoward8h.blogspot.com and paste your results into a new post.

·         PART 2: Conduct any further research to fill any gaps that have been identified in the information collated, prior to the next lesson, and complete drafts if necessary - ready for working on our article on Thursday. Think about what you need to include.

Task reminder:

Main task: To produce a website article for young people that is an introduction to the sport you have researched for homework

This is my test for year 8

This is my test for year 8

QUIZ: What is your learning style?

FIRST HOMEWORK: I would like you go onto the following link - What is your learning style? and complete the quiz on that page.

We all learn differently! Some clever psychology folk have said that we all have a learning preference that fits into one of four categories known as "VARK"
Visual - You learn best from pictures and colour
Auditory - You learn best from hearing or speaking
Read/Write - You learn best from reading and writing
Kinesthetic- You learn best from 'doing' and require a more active way of learning.

90% of your teaching fits into the Read/Write category but unfortunately only 10% of young people actually have this learning preference: What a waste of time!

Therefore, I would like you to complete the quiz at the link above and post on your Blog what type of learner you are with your score from the quiz and what that says about you.
Then I would like you to try and insert the picture from the selection below that fits your learning preference. Any questions, reply to this post
Mr Howard=)

Just what is a Blog anyway?

Introduction

Hi all, this is going to be our Class Blog. On here I will be posting homework reminders, examples of our best work, English quizzes and any other business we can come up with.

Here's to a good year!

Mr Howard =)