Category: 8 ENG.M

012 – Warm Up, Modal Verbs Review

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Warm Up

Describe a moment in your life when you were surprised by how well you performed a task. Explain why you were surprised by how well you did.

Learning Objectives

  • Explore types of modal verbs

Tasks

Modality is a way of expressing

  1. Possibility
  2. Obligation

High modality demands or insists; low modality suggests or hints

Modal verbs: can, could, may, might, must, shall, should, will, would.

  • Write a letter explaining why you shouldn’t be given homework. The letter must include all nine nodal verbs.
  • In groups of four, decided which four modal verbs that you would remove from the English language.

 

 

010 – Revision for Test, Sentence Diagramming & Look Ahead to Term Two

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Warm Up

Diagram this sentence: Ginny happily cooked in the kitchen of her new house.

Learning Objectives

  1. Clarify what will be covered on Thursdays English test
  2. Practice Sentence Diagramming
  3. Explain the time line for this term

 

Revision: Answer for Q4

‘We are going to the beach today,’ said Mum.

‘That’s great,’ said Peter.

‘It’s such a hot day,’ said Annis. ‘I am sure I will get sun burned.’

‘You must all go and get your bathers, hats and towels,’ said Mum. ‘I will get the sunscreen and the shade tent.’

‘I am going to bring my new snorkel.’ said Peter.

‘Well, I think I will just bring a good book,’ said Annis.

 

English Test 

  • Next double
  • Will cover the sections of holiday homework that were detailed in an email I sent out at the end of last term
  • Will include four sentences that you will be asked to diagram
  • No notes are allowed into the test

Sentence Diagramming

Diagram the following sentences. Skip any you have done already.

Practice Sentences

Term 2

Assessment

  • Essay on Edward Scissorhands
  • Creative Task on Edward Scissorhands
  • Listening Comprehension (Teen Trolley)
  • Complete English Basics Test (Chapters 5-9)
  • Sentence Diagramming Test (Chapters 4-7)

009 – General feedback for short stories

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Things to consider when writing your final draft:

  • each new speaker requires a new line of dialogue
  • describe setting at least once in each paragraph
  • break up description of action with description of setting
  • start a new paragraph each time you change location or topic
  • NP – means new paragraph

007 – Warm Up, Finish Draft of Short Story

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Warm Up

What is the rising action of a narrative and why is it so important in the relation to the climax of a story? Write a pargaph to explain your thinking. Use the notes you took last lesson to help with this.

Learning Objective

  • Understand the importance of rising action and make adjustments to your narrative according to this new understanding.
  • Focus on looks and action of character in the way you establish the personality anad emotional state of the characters in your story
  • Review Year 8 Short story Assessment Task
  • Look at the PowerPoint entitled Punctuating Direct Speech
  • Finish draft of short story

 

 

005 – Prepositional Phrases, Hmk Chk and Oral Presentation

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Warm Up

A prepositional phrase is phrase that starts with a preposition and ends with noun. Prepositional phrases can act as adjectives or adverbs. When they act as adverbs, they modify verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs. In this exercise, we’ll only diagram prepositional phrases that modify verbs.

Example: The rabbit hopped through the pretty garden.

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  1. Has Lucy been reading at the library?
  2. I ran around the absolutely beautiful city.
  3. Those blue birds chirped endlessly into the night.

Learning Objective

  • Develop an understanding of what a prepositional phrase is.
  • Assess the success of practice and preparation for oral presentation.

Today’s Tasks

  • Hmk chk – 15 line narrative from NNTK
  • 15 mins final rehearsal
  • Oral presentation

004 – Oral Skit: Script Complete and Rehearsal

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Warm Up

If you could introduce one new subject into the school curriculum, what would it be? Write a paragraph to explain your reasoning.

Learning Objectives

  • Refine characterisation for oral skit
  • Develop oral presentation skills
  • Engage with feedback on hmk

Tasks

  • Oral skit
    • Finish draft of script (follow standard script format
    • Highlight parts of script that show the personality of you character
    • Rehearse your skit as a group