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.
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Year 8
Characterisation
Developing protagonists
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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