Y8 Remote Learning - English | Armfield Academy

Armfield Academy – Department - English

Year 8 Curriculum Overview

CLASS:	To access your child’s English video lessons, click the link below depending on their class. This link will take them directly to Google Classroom / their weekly activities.
8X1	https://classroom.google.com/c/MTQ1MzY0MTY4NjYx
8X2	https://classroom.google.com/c/MTQ1MzY0MzYxMzU0
8X3	https://classroom.google.com/c/MTQ1MzY0MzYxMzY4
8X4	https://classroom.google.com/c/MTQ1MzY0MzYxMzgy
8Y1	https://classroom.google.com/c/MTQ1MzY0MzYxMzk1
8Y2	https://classroom.google.com/c/MTQ1MzY0MzYxNDMx
8Y3	https://classroom.google.com/c/MTQ1MzY0MzYxNDQ5

Half Term 1
Date	Curriculum Overview Focus: Non-fiction study Topic: Animal Welfare	Remote Learning
WEEK 1 02/09	Introduction to non-fiction / Sow stall article comprehension / Persuasive speech writing task (factory farm meat) Spelling & vocabulary quiz	- Armfield Video Lessons: [See Google Classroom class links above] - Skills Activities: https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/an-introduction-to-rhetoric-ethos-6mr3er?from_query=WRITING+RHETORIC - Recommended E-Book: https://www.myon.co.uk/login/ (search: ‘Peter Pan’)
WEEK 2 07/09	Debate activity (‘Free range solutions) / Commas / Tusk poaching comprehension (summarising language) / Horse racing (persuasive language devices) Spelling & vocabulary quiz /	- Armfield Video Lessons: [See Google Classroom class links above] - Skills Activities: https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/rhetoric-and-clarity-of-expression-counter-arguments-6cw30c - Recommended E-Book: https://www.myon.co.uk/login/ (search: ‘Firestormers – Back Burn’)
WEEK 3 14/09	The fur industry (article comprehension) / Summarising language and ‘word zooming’ / End fur farming (Formal letter writing) / Spelling & vocabulary quiz	- Armfield Video Lessons: [See Google Classroom class links above] - Skills Activities: https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/grammar-for-writing-using-brackets-and-dashes-6mwkec - Recommended E-Book: https://www.myon.co.uk/login/ (search: ‘Dracula’)
WEEK 4 21/09	Paragraphing / Fronted adverbials / Sentence development / Vocabulary development / Sentence connectives / Spelling & vocabulary quiz Accelerated Reader STAR Test	- Armfield Video Lessons: [See Google Classroom class links above] - Skills Activities: https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/grammar-for-writing-sentence-construction-cmukar - Recommended E-Book: https://www.myon.co.uk/login/ (search: ‘Passage to Fortune’)
WEEK 5 28/09	Animal circus (information retrieval/text comparison) / Knowledge organiser (assessment preparation) Spelling & vocabulary quiz	- Armfield Video Lessons: [See Google Classroom class links above] - Skills Activities: https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/grammar-for-writing-using-semicolons-to-link-main-clauses-c4uk8c - Recommended E-Book: https://www.myon.co.uk/login/ (search: ‘Case of the Stolen Space Suit’)
WEEK 6 05/10	Assessment - Fox hunting reading paper (information retrieval / summarising text / language analysis) Spelling & vocabulary quiz	- Armfield Video Lessons: [See Google Classroom class links above] - Skills Activities: https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/grammar-for-writing-the-colon-c8t3ar - Recommended E-Book: https://www.myon.co.uk/login/ (search: ‘Awesome Jobs Involving Technology’)
WEEK 7 12/10	Assessment – The purpose of animals writing task (article) / Feedback, self-reflection & pupil voice	- Armfield Video Lessons: [See Google Classroom class links above] - Skills Activities: https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/viewpoint-writing-what-is-it-c9jk4d?from_query=viewpoint+writing - Recommended E-Book: https://www.myon.co.uk/login/ (search: ‘Spine Shivers – Tech Fury’)
Half Term 2
Date	Curriculum Overview Focus: Pre-1914 Literature Topic: Hound of the Baskervilles	Remote Learning
WEEK 1 02/11	Context study: Victorian life and crime / Diary entry empathy task / Writing skills: ‘Walking through squalor’ / Spelling & vocabulary quiz	- Armfield Video Lessons: [See Google Classroom class links above] - Skills Activities: https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/grammar-for-writing-using-semicolons-to-link-main-clauses-c4uk8c?from_query=semicolons - Recommended E-Book: https://www.myon.co.uk/login/ (search: ‘Smart Research Strategies’)
WEEK 2 09/11	Impressions of Sherlock analytical task /Writing skills: PETE paragraph practice / Holmes research hwk Spelling & vocabulary quiz	- Armfield Video Lessons: [See Google Classroom class links above] - Skills Activities: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zs2fvcw/revision/1 - Recommended E-Book: https://www.myon.co.uk/login/ (search: ‘Portrait Vandal’)
WEEK 3 16/11	Narrative context: Baskerville info) / Narrative map task / Murder on the moors chapter 1 analysis / Spelling & vocabulary quiz	- Armfield Video Lessons: [See Google Classroom class links above] - Skills Activities: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zpp4kqt/revision/1 - Recommended E-Book: https://www.myon.co.uk/login/ (search: ‘Humans and Other Life on Earth’)
WEEK 4 23/11	Chapter 4 analysis – the Hound – language and structure / descriptive writing skills / describing a beast Spelling & vocabulary quiz	- Armfield Video Lessons: [See Google Classroom class links above] - Skills Activities: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zd4kwty - Recommended E-Book: https://www.myon.co.uk/login/ (search: ‘The Songs of Stones River’)
WEEK 5 30/11	Grammar and punctuation week – parenthesis / subordinate clauses / Semi-colons / Comma splicing Spelling & vocabulary quiz	- Armfield Video Lessons: [See Google Classroom class links above] - Skills Activities: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z8scf82 - Recommended E-Book: https://www.myon.co.uk/login/ (search: ‘Maps’)
WEEK 6 07/12	Chapter 12 - mood & atmosphere comprehension reading/annotation / Assessment planning (description of The Grimpen Mire) Spelling & vocabulary quiz	- Armfield Video Lessons: [See Google Classroom class links above] - Skills Activities: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zfkk7ty/articles/z9tkxfr - Recommended E-Book: https://www.myon.co.uk/login/ (search: ‘Missing Museum Archives’)
WEEK 7 14/12	Assessment task / Descriptive writing task / Book review / Feedback, self-reflection & pupil voice	- Armfield Video Lessons: [See Google Classroom class links above] - Skills Activities: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zf8kvwx - Recommended E-Book: https://www.myon.co.uk/login/ (search: ‘Looking Through the Glass’)
Half Term 3
Date	Topic: Skills	Remote Learning
WEEK 1 04/01	. Varying sentence openings / Comma splicing / Using imagery / Paragraphing Spelling & vocabulary quiz	- Armfield Video Lessons: [See Google Classroom class links above] - Skills Activities: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z4hrt39/articles/z7t2vk7 - Recommended E-Book:
WEEK 2 11/01	Paragraphing / Analysing Language / Summarising / PETE / Spelling & vocabulary quiz	- Armfield Video Lessons: [See Google Classroom class links above] - Skills Activities: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z4hrt39/articles/znn6pbk - Recommended E-Book:
	Curriculum Overview Focus: Non-Fiction Study Topic: Travel Writing	Remote Learning
WEEK 3 18/01	Non-fiction recap / Introduction to travel writing genre / Orient Express research / Dictionary race vocabulary task / OE brochure language analysis / Spelling & vocabulary quiz	- Armfield Video Lessons: [See Google Classroom class links above] - Skills Activities: https://www.grammarbook.com/grammar_quiz/subject_verb_agreement_1.asp - Recommended E-Book:
WEEK 4 25/01	Developing vocabulary/ Capital letters / apostrophes / Fronted adverbials / Semi-colons / Travel article planning / Spelling & vocabulary quiz	- Armfield Video Lessons: [See Google Classroom class links above] - Skills Activities: https://www.grammarbook.com/grammar_quiz/adjectives_and_adverbs_1.asp - Recommended E-Book:
WEEK 5 01/02	Travel review (‘Life on the Orient Express’ article task) / Employment skills ‘Life literacy - OE Job application form / Spelling & vocabulary quiz	- Armfield Video Lessons: [See Google Classroom class links above] - Skills Activities: https://www.grammarbook.com/grammar_quiz/commas_1.asp - Recommended E-Book:
WEEK 6 08/02	Application letter / Speaking and listening task (job interview role play) / Persuasive techniques recap / Redrafting / Spelling & vocabulary quiz	- Armfield Video Lessons: [See Google Classroom class links above] - Skills Activities: https://www.grammarbook.com/grammar_quiz/semicolons_and_colons_1.asp - Recommended E-Book:
WEEK 7 15/02	Visit Blackpool webpage analysis / Bill Bryson’s Bradford (article comprehension) / ‘Holiday from Hell’ (satire writing task) Spelling & vocabulary quiz	- Armfield Video Lessons: [See Google Classroom class links above] - Skills Activities: https://www.grammarbook.com/grammar_quiz/apostrophes_1.asp - Recommended E-Book:
Half Term 4
WEEK 1 22/02	My Time in ___________’ travel journal planning / Assessment task: Travel article writing task / RRR reflection / Spelling & vocabulary quiz	- Armfield Video Lessons: [See Google Classroom class links above] - Skills Activities: - Recommended E-Book:
Date	Curriculum Overview Focus: Shakespeare/Play Study Topic: Macbeth	Remote Learning
WEEK 2 01/03	Introduction to Shakespeare / Context study (Tudor power/conflict/witchcraft) / ‘Macbeth’ plot study/ Narrative map task (themes, characters & messages)/ Spelling & vocabulary quiz	- Armfield Video Lessons: - Skills Activities: - Recommended E-Book:
WEEK 3 08/03	Character psychology/ Macbeth’s downfall debate & summary / Act 1 scene 2 comprehension (Macbeth description) / Spelling & vocabulary quiz	- Armfield Video Lessons: - Skills Activities: - Recommended E-Book:
WEEK 4 15/03	Witchcraft focus / Lady Macbeth analysis / Friendship, loyalty and treachery / Tension in the courtyard / Spelling & vocabulary quiz	- Armfield Video Lessons: - Skills Activities: - Recommended E-Book:
WEEK 5 22/03	Act 2 Scene 1 Banquo’s death (Tension) / Act 2 Scene 2 Macbeth the murderer (Despair) / Spelling & vocabulary quiz	- Armfield Video Lessons: - Skills Activities: - Recommended E-Book:
WEEK 6 29/03	Act 3 study (Banquo’s ghost) / Assessment comprehension task – Lady Macbeth / Feedback, self-reflection and pupil voice / Spelling & vocabulary quiz	- Armfield Video Lessons: - Skills Activities: - Recommended E-Book:
Half Term 5
Date	Curriculum Overview Focus: Poetry Anthology Study Topic: Relationships	Remote Learning
WEEK 1 12/04		- Armfield Video Lessons: - Skills Activities: - Recommended E-Book:
WEEK 2 19/04		- Armfield Video Lessons: - Skills Activities: - Recommended E-Book:
WEEK 3 26/04		- Armfield Video Lessons: - Skills Activities: - Recommended E-Book:
WEEK 4 03/05		- Armfield Video Lessons: - Skills Activities: - Recommended E-Book:
WEEK 5 10/05		- Armfield Video Lessons: - Skills Activities: - Recommended E-Book:
WEEK 6 17/05		- Armfield Video Lessons: - Skills Activities: - Recommended E-Book:
WEEK 7 24/05
Half Term 6
Date	Curriculum Overview Focus: Novel Study Topic: Heroes/1984/Animal Farm	Remote Learning
WEEK 1 07/06	Word War 2 & Pearl Harbour or Dystopian Fiction or Russian Revolution context study / Spelling & vocabulary quiz	- Armfield Video Lessons: - Skills Activities: - Recommended E-Book:
WEEK 2 14/06	Whole-class reading / Impressions of character / Use of language devices / Chapter 1 comp’sn Spelling & vocabulary quiz	- Armfield Video Lessons: - Skills Activities: - Recommended E-Book:
WEEK 3 21/06	Independent reading / Analysing structural devices / Messages and morals summary / Spelling & vocabulary quiz	- Armfield Video Lessons: - Skills Activities: - Recommended E-Book:
WEEK 4 28/06	Character viewpoints / Subordinate clauses / Comma task / Empathy task – diary/letter / Spelling & vocabulary quiz	- Armfield Video Lessons: - Skills Activities: - Recommended E-Book:
WEEK 5 05/07	Whole-class reading / Implicit meaning focus / Cloze activity / Evaluation question / Spelling & vocabulary quiz	- Armfield Video Lessons: - Skills Activities: - Recommended E-Book:
WEEK 6 12/07	Key chapter focus / Knowledge organiser planning time / Assessment task (How does the…) / Spelling & vocabulary quiz	- Armfield Video Lessons: - Skills Activities: - Recommended E-Book:
WEEK 1 07/06	Book review / Assessment Feedback, self-reflection & pupil voice / Accelerated Reader STAR Test	- Armfield Video Lessons: - Skills Activities: - Recommended E-Book: