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Year 8

Characterisation

English lesson 11 for year 8 (Series 2)

Learn how authors develop characters to communicate ideas through a narrative. You'll need a pen or pencil and paper or digital device, as well as your reading journals.

Developing protagonists

English lesson 12 for year 8 (Series 2)

Learn to use the characterisation profile to identify and develop complex protagonists. You'll need a pen or pencil and paper or a digital device and your reading journals.

Developing antagonists

English lesson 13 for year 8 (Series 2)

Learn how antagonists help to progress stories by contrasting with their protagonist. You'll need a pen or pencil and paper or a digital device, as well as your reading journals.

Imagery and symbols in fiction

English lesson 14 for year 8 (Series 2)

Learn how authors use imagery and symbols in literary texts. You'll need a pen or pencil and paper or a digital device, as well as your reading journals.

Setting and theme in literary texts

English lesson 15 for year 8 (Series 2)

Learn about setting and theme in literary texts. You'll need a pen or pencil and paper or a digital device, as well as your reading journals.

Review the 4 operations and key vocabulary

Mathematics lesson 1 for year 8 (Series 1)

Revisit important prior learning, including the 4 operations and key vocabulary. You'll need a pen or pencil and paper, or access to a digital document you can easily use during the lesson, dice from a board game, or digital dice.

Working with vocabulary

Mathematics lesson 2 for year 8 (Series 1)

Learn effective ways of building your maths knowledge around key vocabulary, working with the order of operations. You'll need a pen or pencil and paper, or access to a digital document you can easily use during the presentation, and a calculator.

Directed numbers and number lines

Mathematics lesson 3 for year 8 (Series 1)

Learn about the magnitude of negative numbers and begin to do computation with directed numbers. You'll need a pen or pencil and paper, and a ruler to create number lines for the activities.

Solving directed number problems

Mathematics lesson 4 for year 8 (Series 1)

Continue to develop efficient strategies to complete arithmetic processes such as addition and subtraction with positive and negative numbers. You'll need a pen or pencil, paper, a ruler and a calculator.

Multiplication and division with directed numbers

Mathematics lesson 5 for year 8 (Series 1)

Learn to develop efficient mental and written strategies to complete multiplication and division problems with directed numbers, focussing on the use of patterns. You'll need a pen or pencil, paper, a ruler and a calculator.

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