Welcome

Welcome to Mrs. Couchman`s blog.

On this blog you will be able to share in the work that your child is doing in class.

Each half term you will get on overview of the work we are doing in class as well as links to useful websites that will enhance your child`s progress.

This will enable you to share and discuss what we are doing as well as giving you an understanding of the overall focus of each unit of work.

Whilst lessons will be planned to personalise the learning of individual students, the final assessment will be the same for all students with questions and tasks aimed at all abilities, and so enabling an accurate assessment of your child`s ability.

Thank you for sharing in this learning experience.

Mrs. Couchman

Year 8 Exam Prep

Reading Paper

Persuasive Techniques - A FOREST

Alliteration
Facts
Orders - or imperative eg 'Phone now...'
Rhetorical questions - Repetition
Emotive language
Second person - direct address ie 'you'  eg 'Could you help the life of a child...?'
Triplets - the grouping together of three ideas, words to impact on the reader eg Give more.  Give now.  Give hope

Don't forget to point, evidence and explain!

Remember to think about the pictures and headlines together!

Writing Paper

Writing to engage, entertain using descriptive writing

Colours
Adjectives
Sentence variety
Senses - sight, sound, smell, touch and taste
Imagery - metaphors, similes, alliteration, personification, onomatopoeia, pathetic fallacy

Don't forget your spelling, punctuation and grammar!

paragraphing:

Change of:

• topic
• time
• place
• character

new speaker, new line, 66" and 99"

Year 7 Poetry Unit

Poetic techniques

 

For you assessment, you must be able to identify poetic techniques with confidence AND be able to explain their effect on the reader (you)

 

You must remember your PEE paragraphs at all times

 

 

In your next lesson (not your LSC lesson) you will be given a test to see if you can remember how to spell each of the following terms AND to see if you can explain them in your own words.  You will also be asked to provide your own example of each. This is not your assessment.  This is to ensure that you are building your knowledge and confidence.

Alliteration  Where two or more words close together start with the same letter or sound

• It was a dark and dreary December morning.

Personification  Where something that is not human does a human action

• The leaves danced in the wind.
• Lights were blinking in the distance.

Pathetic fallacy  Where the weather in a story/poem helps to create a feeling

• Rain creates a sad feeling
• Sun creates a happy feeling
• Thunder creates a scary feeling

Simile  Where something is compared to something else using like (or as…..as) 

• The frost on the trees sparkled like diamonds.

Metaphor  A comparison like simile, but doesn’t use like

• The fog was a thick white blanket covering the town.

Onomatopoeia  A sound word

• The tree crashed to the ground.
• I jumped into the pool with a big splash.