1. Year 8 into 9 Homework Term 6 The Boy in Striped Pyjamas

2. Week 1 Set: Due: Research Task:
Find out as much information about WW2 concentration camps and the Holocaust as you can.
*Disclaimer – some of the information you find may be very upsetting for you and for others, so be careful with what you select.*
You may want to include:
The time period;
Who was taken to a concentration camp;
What happened to people in the camps;
Where were the concentration camps located;
Any other important information you can find…
Challenge task:
Research Anne Frank and make notes about her time in a concentration camp.
Challenge Plus task:
Imagine you have been sent to a concentration camp. Write a diary entry to reflect your feelings.

3. Week 2
Set:
Due:
Using your reading book (if you don’t have one – borrow one from the library – it’s a great place to borrow books for free and we have one in school…amazing, I know), use the next slide of technical language terms and identify examples in your book.
Try to do as many as you can:
10 = 5 Vivos
20= 10 Vivos
30+= 15 Vivos
Challenge task: Write a sentence using different examples of these technical terms.
Challenge Plus task: Write about the effect that each language term has on the reader.

4. My Big Fat Sheet of Technical Terms
Adjective Noun Verb Oxymoron Imperative Adverb Connotations Adverbial phrase Pronoun Article Conjunction Possessive determiner Prolepsis Analepsis Colloquial Metaphor Simile Syndetic list Asyndetic list First person Third person Tense Antithesis Contrast Phrase Lexical choice Mood Repetition Irony Expletive Semantic field Quantifier
Differentiate by working on basic terms for weaker students. More able could find out meanings themselves and think of examples- maybe from the text itself.

5. Week 3
Set:
Due:
Using the image as a stimulus, write a description about what it would be like inside a concentration camp.
You could write about:
The general conditions;
What you could see, smell, hear, taste and touch.
Challenge task:
Try using a range of sentence starters and use paragraphs.
Challenge Plus task:
Use multiple adverbs at the start of your sentences.

6. Extension Task… Set: Due:
Create a revision game that will help students differentiate between language and structure techniques.
Be as creative as you like…
You could design a:
Snakes and Ladders style game;
Match up activity;
Pairs;
Snap style game;
Connect 4
The really good ones will be turned into revision tools.
Your teacher will reward 50 Vivos for the best ones!