S2 Homework Pack Please complete all tasks in the homework jotter provided

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S2 Homework Pack

Please complete all tasks in the homework jotter provided

Pupil Voice

A focus group of S2 pupils in May 16 stated that they believe English homework should:

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The same group also felt English homework should:

Skills for Life, Work and Learning Developing Creativity Improving Written Communication
Writing about Texts Talking and Listening Skills Reading and Understanding

Week/ Date	Task	Traffic Lighting
Week 1	Writing Skills 1 - Personal Reflective Writing
Week 2	Reading Skills 1 – Word Choice
Week 3	Reading Skills 2 - Connotations
Week 4	Reading Skills 3 – Denotation & Connotations
Week 5	Reading Skills 4 – Words in Context
Week 6	Reading Skills 5 – Words in Context 2
Week 7	Reading Skills 6 – Words in Context 3
Week 8	Developing Your Vocabulary 1
Week 9	Reading Skills 7 – Writing About Word Choice
Week 10	Reading Skills 8 – Identifying Sentence Structure
Week 11	Writing Skills 2 – Creative Writing Gothic
Week 12	Reading Skills 9 – Formal & Informal Language
Week 13	Reading Skills 10 - Tone
Week 14	Reading Skills 11 - Similes
Week 15	Reading Skills 12 - Metaphors
Week 16	Developing Your Vocabulary 2 – Word Wheel
Week 17	Critical Reading Skills 1 – Imagery in Music
Week 18	Critical Reading Skills 2 – Analysing Imagery
Week 19	Critical Reading Skills 3 – Writing an Introduction
Week 20	Critical Reading Skills 4 – PEE Paragraphs
Week 21	Critical Reading Skills 5 – Writing a Conclusion
Week 22	Reading Skills 13 – Holocaust Memorial Day
Week 23	Advertising Skills 1
Week 24	Writing Skills 3
Week 25	Newspaper Reading Skills 1
Week 26	Newspaper Reading Skills 2
Week 27	Newspaper Reading Skills 3
Week 28	Newspaper Reading Skills 4
Week 29	Writing Skills 4

Writing Skills 1
You have to complete a short essay describing something that happened to you over the summer.
It could be good (ie. a holiday, a day out with friends, a surprise, a lovely day)
or
It could be bad (a disappointment, a sad event, a difficult day)

Your essay must:

Describe what happened

Your essay should:

Describe how you felt about this

Your essay could:

Describe how you now feel looking back on the incident

Here is a short exemplar piece to remind you of the features of personal reflective writing.

I had been awake for hours: the warm July sun crept slowly in the window, tiptoeing gently across the floor before teasing my eyelids open. But Mother Nature can be cruel. Summer weather is supposed to bring good times and happiness; not disappointment and despair.

We had been planning our camping trip to Comrie for weeks. I know a weekend camping might not seem like a fabulous holiday to some; but for me it meant a lot. It is not often that I get to spend time with my step-sister and this was going to be a chance for us to bond. I had been planning my festival chic camping wear for weeks; Googling camping stove recipes and packing and repacking my rucksack. The black clouds rapidly gathering in the skies above suggested fate was not going to be kind.

Personification

Alliteration

Personal reflection

Builds suspense

Reading Skills 1
Word Choice – Interesting Words
Good writers will carefully select every word they use in order to describe how someone or something looks or feels.

In English, we sometimes refer to this as their word choice.

Good writers will often try to show how someone/something is looking/feeling rather than simply telling the reader.

Consider the difference between the two sentences below:

Suzy was scared to open the door.
Suzy hesitated as she went to open the door. Her heart was beating wildly.

Task 1
Read the extract below (from a fabulous novel called ‘Skellig’).

Write out words the writer uses which SHOW the garage is run down.

The outside doors to the back lane must have fallen off years ago and there were dozens of massive planks nailed across the entrance. The timbers holding the roof were rotten and the roof was sagging in. The bits of the floor you could see between the rubbish were full of cracks and holes. The people that took the rubbish out of the house were supposed to take it out of the garage as well, but they took one look at the place and said they wouldn’t go in it even for danger money. There were old chests of drawers and broken wash-basins and bags of cement, ancient doors leaning against the walls, deck chairs with the cloth seats rotted away.

Directory: BHSEnglish
BHSEnglish -> Not to suggest that the thesis should tell the factual truth about the subject of the poem, nor should it wildly speculate about the “true story” beneath the surface. In a sentence, state what deeper message you thin the poem is aiming for

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