INSTRUCTIONS: You were asked to read a novel of your choice at home that is at least 100 pages. On completion of this novel you need to do a book review on the book you have read. You were instructed to complete this task on exam paper. If you do use your book it will be a workbook 2 activity.

INSTRUCTIONS: You will be exploring and creating two different types of poems for this activity. Poetry is part of literature, so this activity will be done in workbook 2. You will learn about two different types of poems and then write your own poems following the guidelines.

Limerick

A Limerick is amusing verses, they are humorous and funny. a Limerick follows a specific rhyming pattern (aabba) and rhythm. The rhythm can be achieved by trying to make the syllables also match according to the aabba pattern, so the same amount of syllables in lines 1, 2 and 5, and same syllables in lines 3 and 4. 

Example:

Haiku

A haiku is a syllable poem. It does not rhyme. This type of poem comes from Japan and is often about subjects taken from nature, but it does not have to be. It is made up of 3 lines:

The first line has 5 syllables, the second line has 7 and the third line has 5 again. (5-7-5)

Example:

Once you understand the concepts and rules of these two poems you will need to create your own Limerick and your own Haiku. Poetry is a form of feelings and expressions so your topic for both poems is Corona Virus and the lockdown, I know we are all experiencing many emotions at this time. Use your sense of humour to create your Limerick, then use your deeper emotion about the situation to form a meaningful Haiku.

INSTRUCTIONS: This is a fun activity to test your speed! We all know that synonyms are words with the same meaning, and antonyms are words with the opposite meaning. Below is a list of words under the heading synonyms and another list under the heading antonyms. 

Before you start you will need to write both lists down in your workbook 1 (this is a language activity). 

You then need to set yourself a timer, when the time starts you will need to think of a word that is the same as the synonym and jot it down as quickly as you can next to the listed word,work your way down and complete the whole list. Don't forget to stop your timer after you think of the last synonym!  Record your time in your book.

Next you need to do the same for antonyms. Start your timer, think of all the antonyms for the words down the list and at the end stop the timer and see how fast you were. Record that time as well.

Let the time challenge begin!

After you have recorded your times get your other family members at home to also do the challenge. Find out who the champion is in your house!

SHOW THEM WHAT YOU MADE OF GRADE 7's

Synonym list  (Same meaning)

Hard-

Beautiful-

Big-

Correct-

Exit-

Fast-

Finish-

Close- 

Cold- 

Shout- 

Below-

Connect-

Angry-

Woman-

Fix-

Scared- 

Father- 

Rest-

Moan-

Embarrassed- 

 Time:

Antonym list (opposite meaning)

 Above-

Absent-

Pass-

Addition-

Afraid-

Before-

Blunt-

Cheap-

Clean-

Cold-

Complex-

Crooked-

Easy-

Fat-

Gentle-

Interesting-

Birth-

Wife-

Time:

INSTRUCTIONS: You will be practicing your narrative essay skills. You need to follow the writing process when doing your essay (Planning, draft one, editing and then your final draft). Please remember that ALL PLANNING is done in pencil. Your mindmap has 5 sections: Beginning, middle, ending, characters and figurative language. Only your final draft is done neatly in pen. This activity will be done in workbook 2 and you may write in print instead of cursive if you prefer. Your essay needs to be between 150-200 words. You strictly need to be within that range. Please consider using figurative language skills in your essay to produce a captivating piece of creative work. 

 Please also refer to the rubric when planning your essay so you know what is expected of you.

Narrative Essay Guidelines

·A narrative essay tells a story or gives an account of events. It has a plot or story line and sometimes it has a moral. 

·The introduction indicates the time and the setting of the story, a clear picture in the reader's mind; it also introduces the main character or characters in a detailed description using figurative language skills. The opening paragraph is gripping, detailed and essential.

·The body (middle) contains the development or complication of the plot.  This is the climax or high point of the story. It needs to make the reader invest in the story and want to read more.

·Characters are limited yet very detailed. The reader should be able to visualise them clearly and even relate to them.

·Dialogue can be used but sparingly.

·It is usually narrated in the past tense by the 1st or 3rd person. (I, me or he, she)

·A satisfactory resolution/conclusion (Ending) ties up loose ends and can also include a moral to the story. 

Analyze the picture below and use it as the topic for your essay.

INSTRUCTIONS: This is a language activity, so it will be done in workbook 1. There are 5 different types of nouns listed below. You need to copy the definitions for each type of noun into your workbook. Once you have done so you will need to write sub headings for each noun and list 5 examples of that noun below the sub heading. You are just listing the words for the 5 examples, you do not need to write sentences.

Common Noun: A common noun is something you can see and touch. It is a class of objects, names given to ordinary objects. Eg. It is her book. 

Proper Noun: Proper nouns are the names given to people, places, days and months. Educational subjects are also proper nouns. Any titles of movies and books are also proper nouns as well as common nouns that are named. Remember these nouns always start with a capital letter. Eg. On Monday I went with my English class to see the movie Jack and the Bean Stalk. (articles do not get a capital)

Abstract Noun: These nouns cannot be seen, touched or measured. As opposed to a common noun that is concrete. Abstract nouns are often feelings or emotions. Abstract nouns can be given but “not in a box”. Eg. that girl is so full of joy.

Collective Nouns: A collective noun is a name of a group of objects, people or creatures. As soon as nouns are grouped the nouns get a special name known as their collective noun. Eg.

A flight of stairs

A gaggle of geese

A string of pearls

Compound nouns: Compound nouns can be written in 3 ways: 

1.Open compounds, written as 2 words. Eg. traffic lights 

2.Closed compounds, joined together. Eg. doorknob

3.Hyphenated compounds, joined together using a hyphen. Eg. long-term

Remember once you have copied down definitions you will think of 

5 of your own examples for each type of noun.

INSTRUCTIONS: Ladies and gentlemen its time to dance! The first thing you will need to do is find a song that you like-please no inappropriate music. Make sure you can play the song on repeat because you will need to pause it and play it many times. You are going to choreograph a dance to your song. Making a dance for the whole song may be difficult, so you can use a certain part in the song or the chorus to make your dance. In workbook 2 you will need to write down step by step instructions or directions for your dance, you may do this activity in pencil first because you will be erasing and changing things quiet a bit as your dance comes together with the music you choose, also indicate what song you choose in your workbook. You will need to be as vivid as possible when you write your steps. Number your steps behind the margin and write in a list form (each step on a new line).    

INSTRUCTIONS: You will need to read the article PLANTS AND PEOPLE and then answer the questions that follow. This activity will be done in workbook 1. You do not need to copy down the story or the questions, ONLY THE ANSWERS into your book. Please use full sentences when answering your questions and number each answer correctly.

Plants and People

1.We eat plants every day. We walk into a store and buy potatoes, onions, beans and tomatoes. We eat bread that comes from wheat. We eat cereals made from corn, oats or rice. We eat fruits picked from trees, vines and bushes. Our salads consist of crisp green leaves of plants.

2. Human life depends on plants… This would still be true if people ate no plants at all. They might eat only lamb, beef or chicken, but the animals which this meat comes need plants to eat. If there were no plants in the world, there would be no meat for people to eat. Suppose we ate only fish. Lots of fish eaten by us eat other fish smaller than themselves. But the smallest fish live on tiny water animals and plants. If there were no plants, we couldn’t even stay on a fish diet. In the end all our food depends on plants.

3.How did people learn to eat plants? How did they come to grow certain plants instead of others? When were they first used and who used them? Did our food plants always look the way they do now?

4.When we try to find the answers to these questions, we learn something about the history of man. Man could not have developed without plants used as food.

5.The first men hunted animals and gathered wild plants for food. For 40 000 years they tried every plant they found. They tasted the roots of one and the stems of another. They tried everything, from the berries to the roots under the ground to the leaves and even the seeds! They learnt which tasted good and which were bitter. They learnt which plants kept  them healthy and which plants made them sick.

6.Four hundred thousand years is a long time. It’s hard to imagine that much time. Yet in all that time these early men only gathered the food they found growing wild as they wondered from place to place. It was thousands more years before they learnt to use seeds and grow their own food. At first they didn’t know that if they planted a seed in the ground, it would grow into a new plant. Nobody knows just when or where or even how people learnt this. All we know is that men finally did begin to plant seeds and to care for the growing plants until they could be used as food. This raising of plants – called agriculture – started only about ten thousand years ago. 

7.When agriculture started, people began to settle down in one place to grow their own food. They began to live in groups and to build villages.

8.As soon as people began raising plants, they also began improving them. They saved the best seeds to plant the next year. We still do this today. For example, in Mexico, the gather the best ears of corn. From different fields and keep them in a special place for the next years planting.

9.Because of this most of our food plants changed. Weak and unhealthy plants were weeded out. Slowly  the plants changed and became juicier, sweeter and more delicious. Many of them now look different from the way they did in the beginning.  

10.The idea of growing plants for food spread all over the world. People still travelled. They moved from one country to another. They crossed rivers and mountains. They took with them the plants that they had learned to use for food. As they met new people in new lands, they learnt about other plants. They traded seeds. It’s no wonder it’s difficult for us to find the early history of our food plants. Most plants were scattered through all the known lands of the earth long ago and there are now written records to tell us about them. There are lots of facts and history regarding this myth… reading is power when it comes to knowing more.

You will need to watch the video lesson about essays

INSTRUCTIONS: You will need to watch the video lesson about essays. You are then required to write your first descriptive essay. You need to follow the writing process when doing your essay (Planning, draft one, editing and then your final draft). Please remember that ALL PLANNING is done in pencil. Your mindmap has 7 sections: Sight, hearing, taste, smell, touch/feel, character (Yourself) and figurative language. Only your final draft is done neatly in pen. This activity will be done in workbook 2 and you may write in print instead of cursive if you prefer. Your essay needs to be between 150-200 words. You strictly need to be within that range. Please consider using figurative language skills in your essay to produce a captivating piece of creative work. 

 Please also refer to the rubric when planning your essay so you know what is expected of you.

Descriptive Essay Guidelines

·A descriptive essay is simply an essay that describes something or someone by appealing to their sense.

·These senses are the 5 senses of: sight, sound, smell, taste and touch/feel.

·A descriptive essay paints a clear picture for the reader using descriptive words and senses.

·This type of essay does not follow a story line, but rather describes what it would be like to be in a situation physically. 

·Your conclusion will not contain a moral to the story (There is no story) however your conclusion must still be relevant and logical to your essay.

Analyze the picture below and use it as the topic for your essay.

I have chosen the same picture as the video, this is your first time writing a descriptive essay so by using the same topic it should help you even further to create your essays. this does not mean you copy my examples, but rather formulate your own essay around your senses when eating an apple.

You will need to watch the video lesson about free verse poetry

INSTRUCTIONS: You will need to watch the video lesson about free verse poetry. This is literature so it is a workbook 2 activity. You are going to write your own free verse poem. The length of the poem is up to you. Remember to use your knowledge of Figurative Language to help you construct your poem. You can decide on the topic of your poem, think of something you are passionate about, something that you feel strongly would make a good topic for your poem. Even though this is a free verse poem, try your best to link each line together so that your finished product makes sense.   

I would love to read some of your free verse poems, 

please feel free to email me your poems so I can also enjoy them!

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