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Saint Bede’s Catholic High School
Reading Walk of Fame Challenge
Year 9
Name:
Form:
English Group:
English Teacher:
You are halfway through your time at Saint Bede’s so now it is time to really start making your
mark! It is time to start earning your star on the ‘Saint Bede’s Reading Walk of Fame’. You can
earn your star by completing a number of different challenges.
Basic Training To earn your star, you have to complete a set of six challenges. The
challenges, which earn you your star, are compulsory and can be used in
your form to work towards your literacy credit. There is one ‘basic training’
challenge per half-term but you can complete them as quickly as you want.
Building Your Acting Career Once you have completed or as you are completing your basic training, you can work towards
upgrading your star by building yourself a successful acting career. You can complete a set of
different set of challenges to earn the brightest star!
The challenges are:
TV Shows: Broadway Production: Two points Five points
Hollywood Blockbuster: Ten points
You must complete a combination of these acting jobs to gain the points total required for each
different category of star.
Star Points Bronze Star 24 points (Two TV shows, two Broadway productions and one
Hollywood Blockbuster)
Silver Star 31 points (Three TV shows, three Broadway productions and one Hollywood Blockbuster)
Gold Star 43 points (Four TV shows, three Broadway productions and two Hollywood Blockbusters)
Introduction
Basic Training Challenges
Challenge One:
Read either a newspaper or magazine article of your choosing then pass it on to
another student.
Article Read:
Source of Article:
Date of Article:
Shared with? Form? :
Parent/Guardian Signature:
Now complete the following tasks:
Summarise the main points of the article:
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Write a letter to the organisation that published the article stating your view on the issues raised in
it. Remember this will be a formal letter as it is to someone that you do not know.
In the box below, note the rules for writing a formal letter; the first one has been done for you.
Formal Letter Writing
In the top right hand corner of the page you write your address. Underneath that but on
the left hand side of the page, you write the address of the person you are writing to.
Letter to the Editor
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Basic Training Challenges
Challenge Two:
Read a non-fiction book of your choice.
Book Title:
Author:
Publisher:
Now complete the following tasks:
Fill in the information pyramid.
This book is about…
I chose it because…
The two most
important things that I
learnt from this book
are…
Three things that I still
want to know…
Using the information that you have read:
Note down the key pieces of information
Find the answers to the three things that you still wanted to know
Create a leaflet for a Year 6 class about the topic of the book that you
have read.
Hints and Tips
Keep your audience in mind. Ask yourself: Would they understand the
language that I am using? Do I need to break down explanations any
further? Can I use anything other than language to help my audience to
understand the content? What is the purpose of a leaflet? Am I informing my audience or have I
slipped into persuading them? Is my content appropriate? Is my leaflet organised as clearly as possible? Does my audience attract and keep the reader’s attention?
Basic Training Challenges Challenge Three:
Read a non-fiction book that has been recommended to you by another student.
Book Title:
Author:
Recommended By:
Now complete the following tasks:
Create a mind map about this book. Remember you can use colour, pictures and bullet points to
help you to access and remember the key information:
Write a persuasive speech.
Using your mindmap and the information that you have read, write a persuasive
speech about the topic of the book that you have read. You can base it on the whole
book or a small section of the book or an idea that you have had to research further.
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Basic Training Challenges Challenge Four:
Read a fiction book of your choice.
Book Title:
Author:
Now complete the following tasks:
Answer the following questions in the box below.
Choose a genre that is different to that of the book that you have read. Re-design the cover for
your book to fit the new genre that you have chosen.
What is your book about?
What genre is your book?
What hints are there as to the genre of this book?
Basic Training Challenges Challenge Five:
Read a fiction book recommended to you by another student.
Book Title:
Author:
Recommended By:
Now complete the following tasks:
Read the review below and make notes as to why this is such a good example of a review.
Malala: The girl who stood up for education and changed the world by Malala Yousafzai - review
'In light of her attainment of the Nobel Peace Prize this book is more relevant than ever. Malala tells a story that demands to be heard!' theguardian.com, Tuesday 28 October 2014 15.00 GMT
She fought with words when they fought with guns. She spoke for education when they spread ignorance. She stared death in the face and walked away. She changed the world...
At the age of just 15 Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head by the Taliban – she survived! Now she is a famous political activist, continuing her campaign for education, equality and peace for every child, everywhere. In light of her attainment of the Nobel Peace Prize this book is more relevant than ever. Malala tells a story that demands to be heard!
Written as an autobiography Malala talks of her life as an early child, the Taliban occupation and being shot, all the way through to her 16th Birthday when she addressed the UN assembly. We are carried through her love for Ugly Betty, Twilight and gossiping with friends, showing in many ways Malala is simply an ordinary girl. Yet, thrown into extraordinary circumstances she had the bravery to continue to speak out and campaign for education and equality, making her a truly inspirational person.
Although I would not recommend this book as a sequel to Yousafzai's first autobiography I am Malala, it stands alone as a brilliant story set to inspire the youth of today. The way in which my world differs from Malala's home in the Swat Valley is part of what makes her so inspirational. We all have the right to education, to equality and the right to speak out for what we believe in; fortunately, thanks to people such as Malala these human rights may one day become realities.
A true story of love, loss and tremendous courage, showing how a single voice can change the world.
This a good review
because:
Write a review for the book that you have just read.
Basic Training Challenges Challenge Six:
Choose a teacher and read one of their favourite three books (these will be listed on
classroom doors).
Book Title:
Author:
Teacher:
Now complete the following tasks:
Choose one of the characters from the book and label the outline below with characteristics of
your chosen character.
Fill in the P.E.A Grid
Using what you have labelled about your chosen character, complete the grid below making five
points about your character. An example has been completed for you using Katniss from ‘The
Hunger Games’ books.
Point Evidence Analysis Katniss is protective of her sister and will do anything to keep her safe, including taking her place in ‘The Hunger Games.
‘I volunteer! I volunteer as tribute.’
Here we see Katniss volunteer to take the place of her sister in ‘The Hunger Games’ despite knowing that she will almost certainly die. This shows that she is brave but that she is also willing to sacrifice her own life to save her sister’s, even if it is just for another year.
Congratulations! You have completed your
‘Basic Training’. Now strengthen your skills and
become a true superstar!
Building Your Acting Career Challenges
TV Shows (two points)
Complete any of the challenges below to earn yourself points to help you to win build your acting career and earn merits that count towards your ‘Effort in Learning’ stamp, (tick the boxes to show which tasks you have completed.)
Choose one of your fiction authors. Imagine that you are them and that you are devising the
plot for one of the books that you have read. Write three tweets that tell your fans bits of the
plot as you are thinking of them but do not give too much away (remember ‘tweets’ are 120
characters or less, including spaces).
Choose five key quotations that you think summarise one of the fiction books that you have
read. Write them below with a brief explanation of why they are key to your book.
Key Quotation
Why is it important?
Choose a specific day and at the start of that day visit the BBC News website
(www.bbc.co.uk/news) and write down what you consider to be the top five stories on that
day. Then, watch one news bulletin (on any channel, and at any time on the same day) and
write down their top five stories to see how they compare.
My Top Stories Reasons Why I Choose This. 1.
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Their Top Five Stories Why I Think That They Chose This 1.
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Design a bookmark for younger students (Year 7) to encourage them to read. You must
design both sides.
Find out the answers to these questions about the SLC.
1. How are the books in the non-fiction section of the SLC ordered? What system is used?
2. How are the fiction books in the SLC ordered?
3. What is the new app for the SLC called?
4. List three uses for the new app for the SLC.
5. List three resources that you could use to research an essay (you can only use one
website).
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Politicians create manifestos during an election campaign that tell the voters their top
priorities (things they will change) if they come into power. Pretend that you are a politician
and create a list of your top five priorities for if you came into power – explain what you
would do and why briefly.
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Broadway Production (five points). Choose a classic author from the following list and create
a ‘Facebook’ page for that author. Your list of authors:
Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jane Austen, Emily Bronte, D.H Lawrence and
Thomas Hardy.
Why did you choose this author to create a profile of? ________________________________________________________________________
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If you had to choose one of your chosen author’s books, which would you choose and why?
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Create a definition of the descriptive devices listed below and include an example.
Device Definition Example
Adjectives
Adverbs
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Third Person
Assonance
Sensory Description
Create a definition of the poetic devices listed below and include an example.
Device Definition Example
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Assonance
Alliteration
Enjambment
Stanza
Onomatopoeia
Meter
Rhythm
Repetition
Create a definition of the persuasive devices listed below and include an example.
Device Definition Example
Alliteration
Facts
Flattery
Opinion presented as fact
Repetition
Rhetorical question
Emotive language
Exaggeration
Statistics
Superlatives
Triples
Personal pronouns
Second person
Choose an article from a daily newspaper and write a summary of it (in no more than 200
words) below.
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Choose a fairy tale, such as ‘Little Red Riding Hood’, decide upon a new genre for the story
and write a new blurb for it below. Remember, you need to interest readers and give them a
flavour of the story that they will read but not give too much away (you may decorate it to
reflect the genre).
Choose a paragraph from a non-fiction book that you have read and re-write it as if it were
a paragraph from a tense novel.
Write ten challenging questions about one of the fiction books that you have read that start
with the words below (write the answers to the questions upside down in the boxes, in a
different colour)
1: What?
2: When?
3: Who?
4: Where?
5: Which?
6: Whose?
7: Why?
8: Why?
9: How?
10: How?
Hollywood Blockbusters (ten points).
Write your own newspaper article about an event that you have seen in the news (you can use other reports to gather information but must write it in your own words. You can make up interviews to support your article.)
Write a report to your local council about the state of the library services for children in your local area. You need to include: details about the current situation, positives, negatives and your recommendations for how they could be improved.
Report about the Library Services for Children in the Fylde Area
To: The Chairman of the Council
From: Aim of this Report.
Current Situation. (Use sentences and paragraphs to detail the current state of library services for children in the
area).
Problems (Use bullet points or numbers to detail the problems within the library services for children in the area. Number them in order of importance).
Proposed Plan of Action. (Address each of the bullet points that you have written as problems specifically, saying how you would solve each problem).
Choose two poems which are linked by one of the following themes but which present contrasting views of the theme. Your theme choices are: love, friendship, family, war and power.
What theme did you choose and why? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
How did you find your poems? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Poem One Title:
Author:
What does it say about the theme?
Three key quotations that show how it
reflects the theme?
Why did you choose this poem?
Poem Two Title:
Author:
What does it say about the theme?
Three key quotations that show how it
reflects the theme?
Why did you choose this poem?
Research the ‘Romantic Poets’ and answer the questions below. Then, read two poems that were written by the ‘Romantics’ and write what you thought about them.
Name five poets who fall under the genre of ‘Romantic Poets’.
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What time period did these poets write in?
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What made a poem fall under the genre of ‘romanticism’?
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Poem One Title:
Author:
My View:
Poem Two Title:
Author:
My View:
Read a novel that was written in the nineteenth century. Then write a letter to a friend to persuade them to read the same novel.
Author:
Title:
Reasons for choosing this novel:
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Research two plays written by William Shakespeare which fall under the same genre (e.g. comedy, tragedy, historical etc). Then complete the circles below with information about each play. In the rectangle, you need to write the similarities that the plays share (the characteristics which represent their genre).
Play One
Play Two
Similarities
Find an article about something that interests you (attach it to the back of this booklet). Then, write a reading comprehension (using the instructions below to challenge someone who is aiming for a Level 6 or Level 7 at the end of Year 9).
Five questions that need one sentence answers.
Three questions which need the reader to answer using Point Evidence Analyse
(P.E.A.)
One difficult question which requires an extended response (essay style).
Choose a novel or play that you have read. Pretend that you are either a video game maker and you are going to adpat that text, write how you would use it to make a video game (e.g. which characters you will keep, how they will complete challenges, what they are working towards etc). Plan it clearly below.
Aim of the Game:
Characters:
Plot of the game:
Earning points and rewards:
Fill in the blank
bubbles with your own ideas.
Why is reading
important?
To learn new
things about the
world around us.
To increase our
vocabulary.
To explore other
points of view
besides our own.
My Top Ten Reads List your ‘Top Ten’ books (fiction or non-fiction) that you have read, in
rank order (the best first). Then write who you would recommend it to
(age, gender, interests) etc.
Book Title and Author
Who I Would Recommend It To and Why.
Reflection
Books are amazing. They can take use to a whole other world; broaden
our horizons and inspire us. This journal has acted as a way for you to
think about what you are reading and how you can be creative.
How would you rate your effort out of ten?
What did you do well
(name three things)? Write
one thing that you
learned? Write one thing
that you enjoyed.
Write three things that you think that
you could improve and how you are
going to do this? Write one thing
that you think could be improved.