Globe Academy Home Learning Booklet
“Climbing the Mountain to Success”
Globe Academy
Home Learning Booklet
Foundation
Name: _________________________
Subject: ________________________
Class Group: ____________________
Teacher: _______________________
Term:
Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
Anthony J. D'Angelo
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Home Learning Task One
Success Criteria:
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Key information about Shakespeare e.g. when he lived, his family
What he is famous for
What life was like when her was writing
Written in full sentences with correct spellings.
Brick Objectives:
1. To widen our knowledge of Shakespeare
2. Curiosity – to find out how different life was in the Jacobean Era
Task Details:
Stretch and Challenge:
Research: Find out more about
Shakespeare’s family, including his
wife and children. Use the questions
to help you.
Create a family tree for William
Shakespeare.
Complete the task below:
1. What is William Shakespeare famous for?
2. Where did he live?
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3. What era did he live in?
4. What was it like to live in London during this time?
5. Name five plays that Shakespeare wrote.
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Home Learning Task Two
Success Criteria
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Use adjectives to describe your character
Have a clear beginning, middle and end
Describe the transformation of your character in detail
Use a simile or metaphor to describe the animal
Use a range of sentence lengths and structures (complex, compound and
simple)
Brick Objectives:
1. Basics – to write accurately using the correct spellings, punctuation and
grammar
2. Curiosity – to research the Metamorphoses
Task Details:
Creative writing: Write your own myth
about a transformation.
Stretch and Challenge:
Research: Find out more about
Metamorphoses and some of its
stories.
Complete the task below:
Remember, a myth is a fiction (made up) story. The word ‘transformation’ means
when something changes from one thing to another.
1. Beginning – introduce your setting and your main character.
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2. Middle – what happens to your character? Describe the transformation here.
3. End – what happens at the end? Do you want it to have a happy ending or a sad
ending?
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Home Learning Task Three
Success Criteria
You should find out about:
1. The dates of Ancient Greece
2. What life was like in Classical Athens and Ancient Greek
3. How women were treated during this time
4. What activities they took part in
5. The views they had on marriage
Brick Objectives:
1. To be able to carry out independent research
2. To widen our knowledge of Classical Athens and Ancient Greece
Task Details:
Stretch and Challenge:
Research: Find out more about
Classical Athens and Ancient
Greece.
Extension: Write two factual
paragraphs on life in Classical
Athens.
Creative writing: Write about a
typical day in the life of someone
living in Classical Athens – similar to
the story of the groundling in
Elizabethan London.
Complete the task below:
1. What was life like in Ancient Greece?
2. What food did they eat?
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3. What activities did they take part in?
Challenge: What role did the father play when his daughter got married?
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Home Learning Task Four
Success Criteria
1. Write in a formal style that is appropriate to the task
2. Use a wide range of vocabulary – try and use some of the new words that we
have been learning for our spellings.
3. To spell correctly throughout, especially this week’s spellings.
Brick Objectives
1. To independently choose an activity that you think will support your learning
2. To be able to either:
a) Write in character and reflect on their feelings
b) To use your curiosity to support detailed research
Task Details:
Stretch and Challenge:
Choose one of the following:
1) Research: Harsh laws in Ancient
Greece came into force
because of a man called
Draco. Find out more about
Draco’s life and attitude to
crime and punishment.
2) Creative writing: Imagine you
are Hermia. Write a letter to an
agony aunt explaining your
situation and ask for help.
Extension: Create a family tree of all
the characters we have met so far.
Explain how the characters relate to
each other.
Complete the task below:
1. Who was Draco?
2. What did he do?
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3. Why did he do it?
4. What effect do you think this had on the people living in Ancient Greece?
Extension: Where does Shakespeare show this in the text?
The ‘Letter’ Task:
Dear Agony Aunt,
Where should I begin? My life is so terrible and hard that
I must write to you for advice. Let me start at the
beginning......
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Home Learning Task Five
Success Criteria
1. Write in a clear and concise way - make sure that you use the most significant points.
2. Use a wide range of vocabulary – try and use some of the new words that we have been
learning for our spellings.
3. To spell correctly throughout, especially this week’s spellings.
Brick Objectives:
1. To be able to carry out independent research
2. To build upon my knowledge of the Globe Theatre
Task Details:
Stretch and Challenge:
Research: Find out more about the
history of the Globe Theatre. Answer
the questions below.
Convert Hippolyta and Theseus’
speech into modern English.
Extension (Creative writing): Continue
the dialogue between Theseus and
Hippolyta.
Complete the task below:
Where is the Globe Theatre?
The theatre that we see today is not the original theatre. When was the first Globe Theatre built?
What shape is the theatre? Why?
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Why doesn’t the Globe Theatre have a roof?
Who performed here? Were women allowed to perform here?
Who went to watch these plays?
What food did they sell in the Jacobean Era?
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Home Learning Task Six
Success Criteria
1. To select the most relevant points
2. To use bullet points to organise my ideas and notes
3. To write in full sentences
Brick Objectives:
1. To be able to carry out independent research
2. To be able to reflect on the feelings of a character and use this to write an
accurate letter by Hermia
Task Details:
Stretch and Challenge:
Research: Theseus was a character in
Classical Greek mythology. Find out
who he was and what he did.
Practice using bullet points to write a
summary of your research.
Creative writing: Imagine you are an
agony aunt. Hermia has written to
you telling of her terrible situation
(look back to the letter you wrote!)
Write back to her offering advice on
what she could do.
Complete the task below:
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Half Term Home Learning Task
Success Criteria
1. Show creativity and originality by using your imagination to complete the tasks
2. Use your knowledge of the play to make accurate and informed decisions
3. Correct spelling, punctuation and grammar
4. Use of all the research we have completed so far to help develop your ideas
Brick Objectives
1. Basics – to use correct spelling, punctuation and grammar throughout
2. To reflect on my own skills and choose the activities that show my strengths
Task Details:
Imagine that you are going to put on a production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Globe
Academy. You are the director and must complete at least 2 of the tasks below. You can
choose more if you wish 
Extension: Use quotations from the play to add into your songs, leaflets and use them to
annotate your choices of costume and setting.
1. Design the set for the play
2. Design the costumes for some of the characters
3. Create a leaflet advertising the play
4. Write a song for the opening of the play
5. Write a description for one or more of the characters explaining how you would like
them to speak, act, walk etc
Complete the task below:
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