BGE Home Study Resources – English

READING

  1. Go for some classics like ‘Treasure Island’, ‘Little Women’ and the works of HP Lovecraft at: https://www.gutenberg.org/

Make a top five list of classics that you aim to read and go for it. Keep a record of your reading and try to identify how the author created the characters and the narrative.

Write this up and share with your teacher.

  1. If you are a fan of superheroes and comics then head to https://www.dckids.com/to read free editions of some of DC’s top superhero comics. There are even cartoon episodes to watch.

Once you have read some, why not make your own comic? How about  superhero kid coping with 12 weeks off school by helping others – at https://edu.pixton.com/solo. You can then share your link with your teacher to get feedback. Also, you can enter your comic for the Pixton comic of the week.

WRITING

  1. Have a go at writing your own RPG computer game with an aim to write dialogue to develop your characters and narrative: https://rpgplayground.com/

Share with your friends to test one another’s games. Then, give one another feedback on where there are issues and what you liked about one another’s work. Use Hangouts or email to do so.

  1. Write a blog about a topic of your choice. Each day, find out some information on your chosen topic and then write it up at: https://www.blogger.com/about/?r=1-null_user

TALKING AND LISTENING

  1. Keep learning about a range of topics from the minds that brought us Ted talks:

https://ed.ted.com/

Summarise what you have heard and then think about making your own videos. Use Google Slides and Loom to create presentations that contain music and a narrator.

  1. Love ‘Stranger Things’? Have a listen to ‘Mars Patel’, a mystery podcast set in a school: https://www.marspatel.com/
  2. Get into Radio Podcasts from the BBC: https://www.bbc.co.uk/Podcasts

Other useful websites:

https://www.literacyideas.com/reading-activities-for-any-book

https://www.readingrockets.org/article/103-things-do-during-or-after-reading

 

Units to Work Through

S1

S1 Langston Hughes Poetry

‘I too’ by Langston Hughes

S1 Poetry unit – The Boxer

S1 Imaginative Writing unit – The Package

S1 Sawney Bean Creative Writing

S1 Sawney Bean Creative Writing Support Version

Sawney Brean Radio Interview Support Version

S1 Creative poem LGBT

Mrs McHutchinson’s S1 Class

S1 Film Literacy Placemats

S2

S2 Newspaper Project.

S2 Poetry unit – Presents From my Aunts in Pakistan

S2 Imaginative Writing unit – The Assassin

S3

S3 Short story unit – The Murderer

‘The Murderer’ by Ray Bradbury

S3 Poetry unit – Mid-Term Break

S3 Imaginative Writing unit – Historical Fiction

S1 – 3 Resources

Literacy Skills Booklet Fourth Level(1)

Literacy Skills Booklet Third Level

Creative Task Workshop

BGE Personal Writing unit – Emotions