KS3 Homework Booklet: Shakespeare's World and Detective Fiction (Including Knowledge Organiser)

You are purchasing a booklet which includes homework tasks/ self-learning activites for 9 weeks. On the back of the booklet once printed is a ‘Shakespeare’s World’ knowledge organiser. For alternate weeks students must self quiz different sections of the knowledge organiser building to learning the whole knowledge organiser by the end of the 9 weeks. For the other alternate weeks students must read various extracts, learning to apply 10 ambitious words taken from the first extract.

Students will read across the 9 weeks:

• A non-fiction modern article about Shakespeare in the classroom
• A Victorian non-fiction piece about the theatre.
• Short extracts from Sherlock Holmes (Victorian fiction)
• An extract from ‘Young Sherlock’ for a piece of modern fiction.

The aims of this booklet are:

1. To ensure students are embedding knowledge learnt in the classroom by self-quizzing at home on different sections of the knowledge organiser. This will also teach them the skills of revision.
2. To enable students to read around the topic studied in lessons. They are directed towards a range of extracts which build on the learning in the classroom.
3. To build students’ vocabulary. These complex words are taken from the first article then students must apply them in a range of scenarios in order to embed the new vocabulary.

You are purchasing the .pdf booklet and an editable word .doc (please note that this will not be formatted as seen due to the varied fonts used.

This booklet is intended to be completed at home alongside a unit on Shakespeare’s World (booklet also available separately) and was originally intended for year 7, but could be useful across KS3.