English Faculty HOMEWORK BOOKLET Year 7 Block C Island Project Name: Form: Subject Teacher: Date Given: Date to Hand in: Effort: House Points: www: IOTI: Parent / Guardian Comment:
SECTION A: READING (30 minutes) The following extract is taken from Lord of the Flies by William Golding. The book tells the story of a group of boys who are stranded on an island without any adults. This is how it begins: The boy with the fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way towards the lagoon. Though he had taken off his school sweater and trailed it now from one hand, his grey shirt stuck to him and his hair was plastered to his forehead. All round him the long scar smashed into the jungle was a bath of heat. He was clambering heavily among the creepers and broken trunks when a bird, a vision of red and yellow, flashed upwards with a witch-like cry; and this cry was echoed by another. Hi! it said, wait a minute! The undergrowth at the side of the scar was shaken and a multitude of raindrops fell pattering. Wait a minute, the voice said, I got caught up. The fair boy stopped and jerked his stockings with an automatic gesture that made the jungle seem for a moment like the Home Counties. The voice spoke again. I can t hardly move with all these creeper things. The owner of the voice came backing out of the undergrowth so that twigs scratched on a greasy wind-breaker. The naked crooks of his knees were plump, caught and scratched by thorns. He bent down, removed the thorns carefully, and turned round. He was shorter than the fair boy and very fat. COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING: All students 1. List 5 adjectives (describing words) used in the extract.
2. Find two pieces of information about the bird. 3. How do we know that the boy is hot and uncomfortable? Higher students and extension activity (Foundation students may attempt them) 4. What is meant by the Home Counties? 5. What techniques has the writer used to encourage the reader to continue reading the book?
SECTION B: LITERACY (vocabulary) (30 minutes) DIFFERENTATION. Foundation students: should aim to name their features according to a common theme, such as:- Animals (Monkey Mountain / Lion Ridge / Crocodile Pool) Spooky (Haunted Cave / Skeleton Creek / Ghostly Heights) Higher students: should try to make place names alliterative and include at least ten geographical features. Imagine that you are stranded on a desert island. You come across an unfinished map hidden in a cave. It has clearly been started but it hasn t been finished. Only a few unnamed features have been indicated so it is now your job to complete the map. You can put as many features as you like on your map and you will need to name them. You may even need to include a key. Start with a name for the island itself and remember that nobody has ever made a map of the island before, so all the names will be new. Here is a list of basic terms which might help you: Bay Beach Moor Point Rocks Heath Cove Creek Clearing Heights Grove Valley Mount Plain Cliffs Ridge River Stream Crag Forest Waterfall
If you do not know what all of these words mean you should look them up in a dictionary. This is not a complete list and you can probably think of others. You do not have to use all of them. Your choice of names might reflect the shape of things, colours and important events that have happened at a particular spot. For example: Writing Rock Turtle Track Beach Paperbark Grove Green Ant Woods Home Beach Camp Bay Shark Channel Armchair Rock Haunted Cave Try to make the names as original and memorable as possible. Think about using rhyme or alliteration. You may find that when you have finished all this the map looks rather messy, so you could do a careful, more colourful new version of your completed map.
SECION C: RESEARCH (90 minutes) All students Higher students should focus on presentational devices such as Headings Bullet points Pictures Layout TASK BRIEF You must produce a fact file that is to be included in a nonfiction textbook called, Islands. This book will be used in Primary schools so it needs to be simple and illustrated with appealing images. To help you complete this task, you could use the school library, local library, family and the Internet. You may also have some books at home. You have been given a choice of islands. YOU MUST ONLY SELECT ONE. They are as follows: Sicily Hawaii Iceland Balearics Canaries Falklands Malta Corsica Sardinia Madagascar Galapagos Tasmania Greenland Fiji Christmas Island Easter Island Bermuda Seychelles
Once you have chosen your island try to find out information about the following: Climate Flora and fauna (Animals, birds and plants) Language Population Currency Flag Food Customs Main town/capital city Festivals Religion Places of interest It is essential that you think carefully about how you present your fact file. Remember that your audience is young children so: Keep to one side of A4 Use bullet points Give it a clear heading Use sub-headings Include images Keep your language simple