ENGLISH ROALD DAHL – Short Stories

Year 7 Term 2

Topic 1 – Context Topic 2 – Plot Summary Topic 3 – Themes

Context is the background and circumstances that surround the creation of a text. This includes:

Dates

Information about the author

Why the text was written

What influenced the author to write the text

Key ‘things’ happening at the time the text was written

Roald Dahl is best known for his children’s stories such as James and the Giant Peach, The Twits and George’s Marvellous Medicine. However, he also wrote short stories that explored the more sinister side of humans.

Dahl was also a huge fan of ghost stories.

Many of his short stories have a dark and sinister nature involving strange circumstances.

He also had a taste for the grotesque that he probably picked up from the Norwegian fairy tales he heard as a child.

Try to revise the structure of the story (Lamb to the Slaughter) by revising the plot points in chronological order.

Mary Maloney, is waiting for her husband, a police officer, to get home from work.

When he gets home, Patrick Maloney takes the drink his wife has prepared for him.

Mary tries to cook dinner for Patrick, but Patrick is angry at his wife and instead tries to divorce her.

Mary continues to go about making dinner and choses a lamb leg from the freezer.

When she returns, she clubs Patrick in the back of the head with the leg of lamb, killing him instantly.

Mary quickly tries to cover up her crime.

She puts the lamb in the oven and goes to the local grocer to buy vegetables to complete the dinner.

After returning home and 'finding' her husband dead, she calls the police. They arrive promptly and investigate.

Mary asks the detectives to let her finish the dinner she was preparing.

While enjoying the lamb, the men discuss the case, each of them convinced that the murder weapon, which has yet to be found, is 'probably right under (their) noses.'

Deception – Hiding the Truth

Mary's entire murder plan hinges on her successful deception of everyone, including the grocer, the policemen, and herself.

When she comes home from the store, she's shocked by her own shock at seeing her husband's dead body.

She can hardly believe she killed him, and this makes it easier to live with the murder.

Gender Roles – Men vs. Women

Mary is a model housewife, always tending to her husband's needs, always ready to pour him a drink.

When he tells her he's leaving her, she doesn't just feel betrayed; she feels stripped of her identity as a wife and a woman.

Death and murder

Patrick Maloney, a detective is murdered when wife Mary murders him with a frozen leg of lamb.

Mary's desire to confess is overridden by her fear that her unborn child will die during her execution.

The threat of one death prevents justice for another.

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Mathematics Perimeter, area, number and algebra

Year 7 Term 2

Topic 1 – Area and Perimeter Topic 2 - Multiplying decimals, squares and roots Topic 3 - Using formulae

Term – terms can either be integers or variables. These terms are separated by + or – signs. Integer – whole number Variable – a variable is a symbol for a number we don’t know yet. Like terms – these are terms that are alike. For example:

Substitution – putting the known number in where the letters were in an equation. For example:

https://www.mathsgenie.co.uk/perimeter.html https://www.mathsgenie.co.uk/area.html EXTENSION

https://www.mathsgenie.co.uk/resources/17_perimeter-area-volume.pdf

https://www.mathsgenie.co.uk/squares-cubes-and-roots.html

EXTENSION https://www.mathsgenie.co.uk/resources/6_powers-and-squareroots.pdf

https://www.mathsgenie.co.uk/simplifyingalgebra.html https://www.mathsgenie.co.uk/substitution.html EXTENSION https://www.mathsgenie.co.uk/resources/32_substitution.pdf

SCIENCE Biology, Chemistry and Physics

Year 7 Term 2

Topic 1 : Reproduction Topic 2: Atoms, elements and compounds Topic 3: Forces

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Unbalanced Forces If the forces are unbalanced on an object there are two things that could happen: 1. If the object is stationary then it will move

in the direction of the resultant force 2. If the object is moving, then the object will speed

up or slow down in the direction of the resultant force.

Balanced Forces When we talk about the total force acting on object we call this the resultant force. When the forces acting in opposite directions are the same size we say the forces are balanced. This means one of two things: 1.The object is stationary (not moving). 2. The object is moving at a constant speed. This is Known as Newton’s first law. https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/guides/zttfyrd/ revision/1

Geography How do we use our planet as a natural resource?

Year 7 Term 2

Topic 1: Renewable and Non renewable Topic 2: Use of the tropical rainforest Topic 3: The hydrosphere

The world uses energy to power everything we do on a daily basis. There is a move by world governments to become more eco-friendly. We are doing this by starting to use more renewable energy instead of non-renewable energy sources. Non-renewable energy (fossil fuels):

Oil

Gas

Coal Non-renewable energy causes pollution by releasing harmful gasses into the atmosphere. Renewable energy:

Solar Power

Wind Farms

Hydroelectricity Renewable energy can be used again, without harming the planet.

The tropical rainforests in the world such as the

Amazon in South America and the Congo in Africa

are being used for natural resources.

Natural resources include wood, oil and animal

products.

Trees are cut down for wood and paper and oil,

this is called deforestation.

Palm Oil is a product that is widely used in

products that you would find in food products,

body washes and face creams in your cupboards

at home.

Deforestation is killing animals as their habitats

are destroyed.

Animals are killed for their fur and ivory, these

products are sold on for a profit- sometimes

illegally.

The more forests that are cut down the less

carbon can be soaked up by trees, leading to

increased rates of climate change.

The hydrosphere is the total water on the planet.

The planet’s hydrosphere can be liquid water, vapour or ice.

Water vapour is most visible on earth as clouds and fog.

Water moves through the hydrosphere in a cycle- known as the water cycle because it is a continuous process.

Precipitation (rain, sleet and snow). The water cycle (hydrological cycle):

The water collects in rivers, lakes and oceans.

Energy from the sun heats the surface of the earth.

The water evaporates into the atmosphere to then fall back to earth as precipitation.

Vegetation (plants) soak in some water while some runs off the surface.

The process starts again.

https://unfccc.int/process-and-meetings/the-paris-agreement/the-paris-agreement

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ic-J6hcSKa8

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HISTORY Castles, Norman England and The Crusades

Year 7 Term 2

Topic 1: Castles Topic Topic 2: Norman England Topic 3: The Crusades

As soon as William landed in England, he began to build castles.

His were the first proper castles ever built in England.

William had an army of about 10,000 men in a country with a population of 1.5 million. He needed castles to control them.

The first type of castles he built were called Motte and Baileys.

Motte and Baileys were good because they were high, quick to build and they intimidated!

They were not so good because wood could rot and burn and they could not be too big.

William had a number of problems when he became King of England. He took some big steps to overcome them.

The Earls in the North recaptured York and killed the Normans. William carried out the ‘Harrying of the North’. This involved: Killing people, burning houses, killing livestock, burning crops, sewing salt into the ground. Up to 100,000 people died.

He ordered the Domesday Book which made a record of what land, farming equipment and animals’ people owned. He could now tax them.

William could not run the whole country himself so he relied on something called the feudal system.

In the 600s, the prophet Muhammad started the religion Islam in the Middle East.

From 1087, the Turks stopped Christians from Europe from entering their Holy Land, Jerusalem.

In 1095, Pope Urban II gathered an army to recapture the city. In 1099 the First Crusade became a success.

Knights risked the journey and the battles for three main reasons:

1. Money 2. Religion 3. Power

Over the next 300 years, there were 7 more Crusades, all of which were unsuccessful.

Although the Holy Land was never recaptured, Europeans learnt a lot from their travels:

o New foods and spices o New materials o New weapons o Castle design o Technology o Games and a number system