Year 8 English - Kaizen Education

Course Content

Poetry

Poetry
War poems – In Flanders Fields by John McCrae
War poems – Joining the Colours by Katharine Tynan
War poems – Easter, 1916 by William Butler Yeats
War Poems – August, 1914 by Vera Mary Brittain
War poems – The Shield of Achilles by W.H Auden
War Poems – The Bombardment by Amy Lowell
War Poems – The Charge of the Light Brigade by Lord Alfred Tennyson
war poems – Break of Day in the Trenches by Isaac Rosenberg
Love poems – Love Is Not A Word by Riyas Qurana
Love poems – Love is… by Adrian Henri
Love poems – Love is Enough by William Morris
Love poems – Love Calls Us to the Things of This World by Richard Wilbur
Love Poems – Love Sonnet XI by Pablo Neruda
Love poems – Sonnet 43: How do I love thee? by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Love Poems – Lorna Dee Cervantes Cite This Page Love of My Flesh, Living Death by Lorna Dee Cervantes
Aging poems – On Aging by Maya Angelou
Aging poems – The Youngest Daughter by Cathy Song
Aging Poems – My Mother at Sixty-Six by Kamala Das
Aging Poems – The Old Fools by Philip Larkin
Aging Poems – Faith Healing by Philip Larkin
Aging Poems – At Grass by Philip Larkin
Nature Poems – Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost
Nature Poem – When green buds hang in the elm by A. E. Housman
Nature Poem – A Murmur in the Trees— to note by Emily Dickinson
Nature poems – A Child’s Garden by Rudyard Kipling
Nature Poems – A Late Walk by Robert Frost
Religion/spirituality Poems – The Country of the Blind by C.S. Lewis
Religion/spirituality – Auguries of Innocence by William Blake
Religion/spirituality Poems – The Penitent by Anne Brontë
Religion/spirituality – On the Day of Judgment by Jonathan Swift
Cycle of Life Poems – The Gates of Midnight by Cecília Meireles
Cycle of Life Poems – Blackberrying by Sylvia Plath
Cycle of Life – Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost
Identity Poems – Identity by Julio Noboa Polanco

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Identity Poems- Exile by Julia Alvarez

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Identity Poems – Pride by Jackie Kay

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Identity Poems – Adolescence by W.H. Auden

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Film studies

General Analysis/Study of Films – Movie watching sheet Analysis

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Ned Kelly and the Kelly Gang

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History of Ned Kelly

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Film Analysis

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Become a foley artist – The Making of Harry Potter

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War Films

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Teaching and learning of Film

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Teaching and Activities of film studies

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Film Studies
Sci-fi – scientific dystopia

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The Island – Science Fiction Movie

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GATTACA Sci-fi – scientific dystopia

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DYSTOPIAN SCIENCE FICTION FILM “THE HUNGER GAMES”

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Classism in the Media

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Classism – The Outsiders

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Classism – The Outsiders = worksheet

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Based on a True Story , Hotel Rwanda – Film Studies

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Based on a True Story , Bend it like Beckham – film studies

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Bend it like Beckham Analysis Worksheets

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Bend it like Beckham
Based on a True Story -Apollo 13

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Apollo 13 Film Activity
Identity / Self Discovery – Matilda

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Identity / Self Discovery – She’s the Man

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Identity / Self Discovery – Edward Scissorhands

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Identity / Self Discovery – Dead Poet’s Society

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Dead Poet’s Society worksheet

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Dead Poet’s Society
Love – Romeo and Juliet (1996)

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Love – Romeo and Juliet (1996)
Love – A Midsummer Night’s Dream film

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Morality/Spirituality – Life of Pi – Comprehension

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Morality/Spirituality – Life of Pi
Racism – Freedom Writers

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Racism – Freedom Writers

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War – The kite runner

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Freedom Writers
War – The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

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war – The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

Visual texts

Advertisements

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Visual texts – Advertisements

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visual literacy

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visual literacy 2 – How To Analyse a Visual Text?

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Analysing Visual Texts

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Visual ART

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Visual text analysis

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visual texts
William Shakespeare 2
William Shakespeare – 3

Theatre

General Shakespeare Essay/Response Questions

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Shakespeare Background + Context

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Shakespeare – Life in Elizabethan Times

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Year 8 English Project Shakespeare’s World

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Year 8 English Project Shakespeare’s World – 2

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Year 8 English Project Shakespeare’s World – 3

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Introducing the Swan of Avon: William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
William Shakespeare
The language of Shakespeare – worksheet

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Shakespeare’s language Student worksheets

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Understanding Shakespeare Idioms

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Shakespeare’s Language

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Shakespeare insults – Swear like Shakespeare

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The Tempest – Message in a Bottle worksheet questions

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The Tempest – Home and Exile

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The Tempest – Comedy written by Shakespeare

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The Tempest
The Tempest: Characters
A Midnight’s Summer Dream

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A Midnight’s Summer Dream
A Mid Summer Night’s Dream Act 1
Julius Caesar – To explore language and characterization in “Julius Caesar”

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julius caesar act i
Julius Caesar Act I
Macbeth

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Macbeth Plot
Macbeth’ Lesson One The Historical Context of Macbeth

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History vs Plot in ‘Macbeth’ – Answers

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Julius Caesar

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Julius Caesar
Romeo and Juliet

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Romeo and Juliet Characters

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Course Content

Poetry

Poetry

War poems – In Flanders Fields by John McCrae

War poems – Joining the Colours by Katharine Tynan

War poems – Easter, 1916 by William Butler Yeats

War Poems – August, 1914 by Vera Mary Brittain

War poems – The Shield of Achilles by W.H Auden

War Poems – The Bombardment by Amy Lowell

War Poems – The Charge of the Light Brigade by Lord Alfred Tennyson

war poems – Break of Day in the Trenches by Isaac Rosenberg

Love poems – Love Is Not A Word by Riyas Qurana

Love poems – Love is… by Adrian Henri

Love poems – Love is Enough by William Morris

Love poems – Love Calls Us to the Things of This World by Richard Wilbur

Love Poems – Love Sonnet XI by Pablo Neruda

Love poems – Sonnet 43: How do I love thee? by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Love Poems – Lorna Dee Cervantes Cite This Page Love of My Flesh, Living Death by Lorna Dee Cervantes

Aging poems – On Aging by Maya Angelou

Aging poems – The Youngest Daughter by Cathy Song

Aging Poems – My Mother at Sixty-Six by Kamala Das

Aging Poems – The Old Fools by Philip Larkin

Aging Poems – Faith Healing by Philip Larkin

Aging Poems – At Grass by Philip Larkin

Nature Poems – Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost

Nature Poem – When green buds hang in the elm by A. E. Housman

Nature Poem – A Murmur in the Trees— to note by Emily Dickinson

Nature poems – A Child’s Garden by Rudyard Kipling

Nature Poems – A Late Walk by Robert Frost

Religion/spirituality Poems – The Country of the Blind by C.S. Lewis

Religion/spirituality – Auguries of Innocence by William Blake

Religion/spirituality Poems – The Penitent by Anne Brontë

Religion/spirituality – On the Day of Judgment by Jonathan Swift

Cycle of Life Poems – The Gates of Midnight by Cecília Meireles

Cycle of Life Poems – Blackberrying by Sylvia Plath

Cycle of Life – Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost

Identity Poems – Identity by Julio Noboa Polanco

Identity Poems- Exile by Julia Alvarez

Identity Poems – Pride by Jackie Kay

Identity Poems – Adolescence by W.H. Auden

Film studies

General Analysis/Study of Films – Movie watching sheet Analysis

Ned Kelly and the Kelly Gang

History of Ned Kelly

Film Analysis

Become a foley artist – The Making of Harry Potter

War Films

Teaching and learning of Film

Teaching and Activities of film studies

Film Studies

Sci-fi – scientific dystopia

The Island – Science Fiction Movie

GATTACA Sci-fi – scientific dystopia

DYSTOPIAN SCIENCE FICTION FILM “THE HUNGER GAMES”

Classism in the Media

Classism – The Outsiders

Classism – The Outsiders = worksheet

Based on a True Story , Hotel Rwanda – Film Studies

Based on a True Story , Bend it like Beckham – film studies

Bend it like Beckham Analysis Worksheets

Bend it like Beckham

Based on a True Story -Apollo 13

Apollo 13 Film Activity

Identity / Self Discovery – Matilda

Identity / Self Discovery – She’s the Man

Identity / Self Discovery – Edward Scissorhands

Identity / Self Discovery – Dead Poet’s Society

Dead Poet’s Society worksheet

Dead Poet’s Society

Love – Romeo and Juliet (1996)

Love – Romeo and Juliet (1996)

Love – A Midsummer Night’s Dream film

Morality/Spirituality – Life of Pi – Comprehension

Morality/Spirituality – Life of Pi

Racism – Freedom Writers

Racism – Freedom Writers

War – The kite runner

Freedom Writers

War – The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

war – The Boy in the Striped Pajamas