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Year 8 Vocabulary Book Name: Teacher: You are responsible for this booklet. There are 15 words to study each fortnight. Complete the exercises for homework each fortnight. Hand the booklet to your teacher each fortnight. Although your teacher may not mark this every fortnight, they will check it.

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Welcome to your vocabulary book!

GUIDE TO BOOKLET GRADES When you get your vocabulary book back, your teacher will give you a grade. Here are the criteria. There is also a follow-up task you need to do.

A Vocabulary book handed in on time All sections attempted to the best of ability Completed work has no errors Full sentences used TASK: Teach a family member the vocabulary words

B Vocabulary book handed in on time All sections attempted to the best of ability Completed work has some errors TASK: make corrections as indicated

C Vocabulary book handed in on time All sections partially attempted Completed work does not match student ability TASK: Attempt all sections to the best of ability

D Vocabulary book handed in late Some evidence that sections were attempted Many blank areas TASK: C1 to complete vocabulary work; complete rest for homework

E Vocabulary book handed in late or not at all Sections not attempted (blank pages) TASK: C1 to complete vocabulary work; complete rest for homework

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CONTENTS and PLANNER Skills Words Unit

Words Growth Words Activities

are on: Due on:

Test score

Booklet Grade

1 demonstration collision politician possession repetition

remembrance weary condemn epitaph ceremony

nought empathy sympathy wary borough

Pages 4 - 9

2 beginning begging hoping dining hopping

context personification characteristic qualities essence

rhetorical distil mourning mediate woe

Pages 10 – 15

3 accidentally incidentally ironically sarcastically individually

comparison theme language evaluate patriotism

altercation quest eponymous dessert farther

Pages 16 – 22

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Vocabulary 1a – Spelling Skills Words This week Words ending -cian, -sion, -tion demonstration collision politician possession repetition Activities

1. Write the words out five times each in the space next to each word above.

2. Complete the ending with the correct sound- tion or - sion

explo_ _ _ suc_ _ _ confu _ _ _ _

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crea_ _ _ _ despera_ _ _ _ popul_ _ _ _ _ divi_ _ _ _

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Vocabulary 1b – Conflict Poetry: “For the Fallen” WORDS: remembrance weary condemn epitaph ceremony ACTIVITIES:

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1. What does the line “Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn” mean?

2. Think about the school Remembrance Day ceremony (or any other Remembrance ceremony you have attended). Describe how you felt when the poem above was being read out.

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Vocabulary 1c – Growth Words

Word Definition Synonyms Function Word in a sentence

nought

empathy

sympathy

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wary

borough

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Vocabulary 2a – Spelling Skills Words This week: Double consonants – when do we use them?: beginning begging hoping dining hopping Activities

1. Write the words out five times each in the space next to each word above

2. Guess the word from the clue. The answer has a double consonant

• This noun is a fluffy creature with a powder puff

tail.

• This noun is garbage!

• This adjective means joyful.

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• This verb means allowed.

• This present participle means going quickly.

• This past participle means jumped up and down

on one foot. • • This noun is a colourful talking bird.

• This noun is what you go to the supermarket for.

3. Write out the root forms of the spelling words For example, the root of ‘running’ is ‘run’

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Vocabulary 2b – Conflict Poetry: Context WORDS: context personification characteristic qualities essence

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ACTIVITIES:

1. Find out how and where John McCrae died.

2. Explain why the fields at Flanders are remembered.

3. Do you think this is a good poem for Remembrance Day? Refer to context in your answer.

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Vocabulary 2c – Growth Words

Word Definition Synonyms Function Word in a sentence

rhetorical

distil

mourning

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mediate

woe

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Vocabulary 3a – Spelling Skills Words This week: -Adding – ly accidentally incidentally ironically sarcastically individually Activities

1. Write the words out five times each in the space next to each word above

2. Add –ly words below. Can you come up with more than one?

We _____ boarded the bus after our long flight.

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Dad _______ placed the glasses in the box. She rang the police ________ after the accident. I _______ carried all the shopping up the flight of stairs. The rain fell ______ all through the night.

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Vocabulary 3b – Conflict Poetry: Comparison WORDS comparison theme language evaluate patriotism At the Border by Choman Hardi ‘It is your last check-in point in this country!’ We grabbed a drink – soon everything would taste different.

The land under our feet continued divided by a thick iron chain.

My sister put her leg across it. ‘Look over here,’ she said to us, ‘my right leg is in this country and my left leg in the other.’ The border guards told her off.

My mother informed me: We are going home. She said that the roads are much cleaner the landscape is more beautiful and people are much kinder.

Dozens of families waited in the rain. ‘I can inhale home,’ somebody said. Now our mothers were crying. I was five years old standing by the check-in point comparing both sides of the border.

The autumn soil continued on the other side

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with the same colour, the same texture. It rained on both sides of the chain.

We waited while our papers were checked, our faces thoroughly inspected. Then the chain was removed to let us through. A man bent down and kissed his muddy homeland. The same chain of mountains encompassed all of us.

Flag by John Agard What’s that fluttering in a breeze? It’s just a piece of cloth that brings a nation to its knees. What’s that unfurling from a pole? It’s just a piece of cloth that makes the guts of men grow bold. What’s that rising over a tent? It’s just a piece of cloth that dares the coward to relent. What’s that flying across a field? It’s just a piece of cloth that will outlive the blood you bleed. How can I possess such a cloth? Just ask for a flag, my friend. Then blind your conscience to the end.

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ACTIVITIES 1. Comparing THEME: compare what both poems

are saying about patriotism.

2. Comparing LANGUAGE: Compare the use of verbs in both poems. Which is more effective and why?

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Vocabulary 3c – Growth Words

Word Definition Synonyms Function Word in a sentence

altercation

quest

eponymous

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dessert

farther