Heathcote School
Year 7-Extended Homework Project
Subject:
Week beginning:
Hand in date:
Approximately 6 hours of work.
Name:
Form Group:
Class Teacher:
Form
group:eacher:
You must
complete all of the CORE tasks listed in this booklet. MOST OF YOU will
complete the EXTENDED tasks. If you would like to CHALLENGE yourself please
complete the challenge tasks too.
You must make sure you spend the amount of time suggested for each task.
Your work MUST be well presented or else you may be asked to do it again. This
means neat handwriting, titles and dates underlined; graphs drawn in pencil and
clearly labelled.
In each extended homework task you will also be given a literacy and numeracy
section to complete.
You must hand in your work by the due date. There is no excuse for not completing
work. Help is available BEFORE the deadline if you speak to your teacher
You may also email cnordon@heathcote.waltham.sch.uk
Awards will be given for great work.
Parents/Carers must complete the relevant section on page 2 before work is
handed in to the teacher for marking.
Students will complete a feedback form in green pen when feedback is received. .
Adequate lesson time will be provided for this to occur.
To be completed by Parents/Carers before the work is submitted:
How many hours did your child spend on
this homework?
If this was below the approximate time
stated on the front sheet, was there a
reason for this?
Any other comment?
Signed:
Date:
Literacy Task-This needs to be completed by ALL of you
Half Term Focus: Developing Vocabulary.
Find the meanings of these words and give an example if you can:
1. Punishment
2. Crime
3. Vagrancy
4. Heretic
5. Workhouses
6. Exile
7. Defendant
8. Assassination
9. Reform
10. Reprimanded
Challenge literacy task (optional): Read a book about crime and punishment such as
‘The Hunger Games’ or the ‘Crime and Punishment’ Write a book review. Ask if you
want more suggestions.
Numeracy Task
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How many people are currently in UK prisons?
What percentage of these people are men?
What percentage of these people are women?
How much money is spent on the entire prison system each year in the UK?
How much money does it cost to keep one adult in prison for a year?
Challenge numeracy task (optional): Work out a budget for running a prison or
corrective centre. You have to run the centre for a year and have £1million to spend.
CORE-To be completed by ALL of you
Task 1: Research the life of Elizabeth Fry
Key skills/things you should include:
A timeline of her life
Some quotations (things that she said)
Comments on what she achieved in his life and how you think she achieved this
despite earlier setbacks.
Pictures/photographs
Questions you would ask Elizabeth Fry if she were alive today
Task 2: Make a timeline to show how people were punished for crimes from 850ad to
2000.
Key skills/things you should include: Wergild, trials, pillory and stocks, prison,
execution, fines.
Helpful hints:
Use bbc bitesize.
See teachers for textbooks to help.
Use the library.
Consider the presentation of your work.
Check your work for accurate literacy.
EXTENDED-This should be completed by MOST of you
Task 1: Find at least five contemporary sources on transportation and produce a
Bibliography.
Key skills/things you should include:
Make sure the sources reflect a range of different opinions of transportation.
Ensure you know what contemporary means (in this case something from the
nineteenth century).
Record where you found your sources as you go along in a bibliography.
Make sure you have a mixture of written and visual sources.
Multimedia sources/interviews are allowed but they must be transcribed.
Task 2: How far do your sources agree about the impact of transportation on
reducing crime in nineteenth century Britain?
Key skills/things you should include:
Paragraph(s) showing similarities between sources.
Paragraph(s) section showing differences between sources.
A variety of examples from sources to support your points.
A judgment on ‘how far’/ ‘how much’ the sources agree/disagree
Information on the nature, origin and purpose of sources where relevant to your
argument. (where the sources were from, who made them, why they made them,
when)
Helpful Hints:
Plan you answer first
Include all of the sources you found.
CHALLENGE: This should be completed by those of you that found CORE and
EXTENDED too easy OR if you want to challenge yourself
Task 1: Write a report about conditions in Newgate Prison in the nineteenth century.
Key skills/things you should include:
http://www.peterberthoud.co.uk/2012/05/inside-newgate-prison/
This website has lots of information about Newgate prison. You need to write about
why Newgate prison was made and how people were treated. What did the general
public know about the conditions inside Newgate prison?
Task 2: Essay: ‘Prisons were reformed in the 1800s because of religion’ How far do
you agree with this statement? Use your research from the core task and challenge
task one to answer.
Key skills/things you should include:
An argument for the statement
An argument against the statement
A judgment stating if you mainly agree or mainly disagree with the statement.
Quotations/evidence to support your points.
Helpful hints:
Write an essay plan before you start the essay and discuss it with your teacher.
You need to use PEEL to structure paragraphs.
Read around the subject before you plan and write. Make notes to help inform your
planning and your judgment.
Student Planning Sheet:
Week beginning:
5th January 2015
12th January 2015
19th January 2015
26th January 2015
2nd February 2015
9th February 2015
Task I will complete: How long I will
spend on the task:
What
resources/support
will I need?