Year 10 Skills Revision / Homework – 14th March to 23rd May 2016
Week
Beginning
Exam being
revised
Compulsory task - MUST BE COMPLETED
Optional task
14/3/16
Literature
paper 1
Spend 35 minutes on this HW. 10 minutes planning, 20 minutes
writing and 5 minutes checking your work.
Make a quote bank
OR
Mind map of quotes
Respond in essay style to your set Shakespeare text:
for your set 19th century novel text and themes:
Macbeth – How far does Shakespeare present Macbeth as
ambitious and greedy? (Refer to play as a whole. Include context.) Frankenstein – Isolation, Fear, Injustice (in society)
The Merchant of Venice – How far does Shakespeare present
Shylock as bloodthirsty and selfish? (Refer to play as a whole.
Include context.)
Sign of Four – Fear, Wealth/Greed, Crime
(Remember to use www.sparknotes.com to support your
learning; you can look up modern day translation and analysis of
quotes.)
21/3/16
Language
paper 2
Write an article discussing:
“Teenagers today are expected to sit too many exams in school”
EASTER
BREAK
Write a letter to your local MP about changes required in
your local area
- to encourage the community to stay fit
- to encourage the community to interact in other
ways that help people’s well being
Lang 2
Week 1: Write a letter to the principal of your school outlining the Week 1: Write an article discussing:
facilities that need improving, why they need improving and how
they can be improved.
“16 year olds should be allowed to vote”
Lit 1
Week 2: Re-do your mock exam using teacher’s feedback.
(Remember to use timings you have been taught.)
Week 2: Test yourself – how many Lady Macbeth
(‘Macbeth’)/Shylock (‘The Merchant of Venice’) quotes do
you know by heart? Write them down. Now link them to
themes, e.g. greed/power/evil. Didn’t do so well? Look up
quotes and make some memory cards or revision posters.
Week
Beginning
Exam being
revised
Compulsory task - MUST BE COMPLETED
Optional task
11/4/16
Literature
paper 2
Anthology poetry:
Re-read A. Tennyson’s Charge of the Light Brigade - online at
http://poetry.eserver.org/light-brigade.html
Read Caged Bird by Maya Angelou – online at
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/178948
Write two paragraphs about thoughts and feelings in this
Mind map ideas about how Alfred Tennyson presents conflict, e.g. poem:
through specific words and their effect, through imagery, through
- thoughts – oppression/slavery and/or freedom?
structure and through tone/mood.
- feelings – positive and/or negative?
18/4/16
Lit 2
Anthology poetry:
Re-read W. Owen’s Exposure – online at
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/248306
Read The Harvest Bow by Seamus Heaney – online at
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-harvest-bow/
Write two paragraphs about thoughts and feelings in this
Mind map ideas about how Wilfred Owen presents conflict, e.g.
poem:
through specific words and their effect, through imagery, through
- thoughts
structure and through tone/mood.
- feelings
25/4/16
Lit 2
Anthology poetry:
Re-read B. Garland’s Kamikazi – online at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/guides/zynw2p3/revision/8
AND
Revise Exposure (Owen) or Charge of the Light Brigade (Tennyson)
NOW respond to:
Compare how conflict is presented in Exposure and another
poem. Write about language, imagery, structure and tone.
Read D.H. Lawrence’s Last Lesson of the Afternoon –
online at
http://www.kalliope.org/en/digt.pl?longdid=lawrence200
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Mind map what you think this poem is about. (Explore
ideas and imagery in the poem. Put quotes on the mind
map.)
2/5/16
Lit 2 and
Lang 1
Pick a poem from the anthology poems you have been studying.
Take on the subject’s/speaker’s feelings and write a first person
narrative.
Find an image that you feel represents ideas in one of the
anthology poems. Now, describe this image, in detail, in
no more than 200 words. You must write in full sentences.
9/5/16
Lit 2 and
Lang 1
Find an image that you feel represents ideas in one of the
anthology poems. Now, describe this image, in detail, in no more
than 200 words. You must write in full sentences.
Pick a poem from the anthology poems you have been
studying. Take on the subject’s/speaker’s feelings and
write a first person narrative.
Week
Beginning
Exam being
revised
Compulsory task - MUST BE COMPLETED
Optional task
16/5/16
Lang 1
Study this image:
Research Millais’ painting Opehelia (1852)
Online at -
Online at –
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=millais+paintings&saf
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=millais+paintings&safe=strict
e=strict&biw=819&bih=534&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=
&biw=819&bih=534&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0
X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwjK0Z2V57PLAhXrApoKHRlwAMUQ
ahUKEwjK0Z2V57PLAhXrApoKHRlwAMUQ_AUIBigB#safe=strict&t
_AUIBigB#imgrc=es-XDUs8lNAzLM%3A
bm=isch&q=isolated+train+stations&imgrc=SRha1Wv3BmheM%3Ative/
Now write the opening of a story inspired by this image
and your research.
Now write a narrative inspired by this image.
23/5/16
Lang 1
Read the opening of William Golding’s Lord of the Flies – online at Read Lord of the Flies or a book from Suggested Reading
at Key Stage 4 (reading list).
http://genius.com/William-golding-lord-of-the-flies-chap-1-thesound-of-the-shell-annotated
Read up to “What’s your name?” “Ralph”
Now respond to:
How does the writer create reader interest? Comment on
characters and setting. Write 4 paragraphs.