HT2 Yr9 English
Independent Learning Grid
Total VIVO’s this
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Complete the Independent Learning Task set every week by the deadline given. Try your best to achieve
the highest level of challenge.
On the weeks when you do not have Independent Learning Tasks you should aim to learn the Keywords.
Every half term you should aim to do a Super Challenge – these are in addition to the set tasks.
Deadline week (W/C)
Vivo
reward
1V
Level of
challenge
3V
10V
W/C:
15/12/14
Find out 10
facts about
war in
Belfast
Write three
tweets, as if
sent by
president
Obama,
about war.
Create a
poster for
commas and
speech marks.
Write 5
tweets as if
you were a
commander
in charge of
a set of
troops.
Create a quiz
on 15
questions
about the
poem ‘The
Charge of
the Light
Brigade.’
Write an
interview (at
least 6 Q&A)
with a riot
squad
officer, in
Belfast,
fighting
against his
enemy.
Create a
fact sheet
about
formal and
informal
language.
Write a fact
sheet for 10
key words you
have learnt
this topic.
Create a
quiz (10
questions)
on the key
words you
have learnt.
Write an
Alfred, Lord
Tennyson.
obituary *
* Inform
people of his
achievement
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Describe
what you
can see as
you cross a
border of a
country
(what can
you see- 5
senses)
Write a
poem or
song about
war.
Write a diary
entry as if you
were a war
photographer.
W/C:
17/11/14
W/C:
24/11/14
Find out 10
facts about
WW1
Write 5
tweets as if
sent by a
soldier.
Write a semi
colon
factsheet.
Create a fact
sheet about
the trenches.
Core
Extension
killer
W/C:
08/12/14
W/C:
10/11/14
Write 15
questions
and answers
about WW1.
2V
W/C:
01/12/14
W/C:
3/11/14
Write a guide
informing
people of
life in the
trenches.
Super Challenge
Write a
newspaper
article about a
certain day in
WW1.
Create one of the following to consolidate what you have learnt this half term
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A podcast as either a war photographer, a riot police or a soldier.
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A video about WW1 and life in the trenches.
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Board game about the key words you have learnt this topic.
Write a
newspaper
article
informing
people of a
specific day
as a soldier
in WW1.
SPAG
Keywords:
Personification
Emotive
Language
Alliteration
Rhetorical
question/
repetition
Metaphor
Simile
Conflict
Modal verb
Juxtaposition
Assonance
Rhyme
Enjambment
Stanza
Spell
Definition
Write an
example
of…