Year 8 Homework Due in Monday 20th March

6 weeks to complete 3 tasks:

Research a current affairs topic from the news or online that interests you (use our list of ideas below if
needed or choose your own)

1. Find and read 2 different news articles which present a strong viewpoint on your
chosen topic (try and find different/opposite viewpoints if you can)
2. Write the text for a blog which states your view on this topic. Use images and
consider your layout to engage your online audience.
3. Complete ONE of the creative tasks below: These are persuasive writing tasks so see
the list of persuasive writing features below to help you.
Task 1
Choose a current affairs topic over the next 6 weeks that
you care about. Ideas below but choose your own!
• Diversity in the C21st
• Global Warming
• Gender equality rights Find and read 2
• Donald Trump different news
• The cost of living crisis articles which
• Post Covid Britain; the impact on schools/businesses present a strong
• Mental Health and teenagers viewpoint on your
• Cancel Culture chosen topic
• Driverless Cars
• Social Media
• The ‘Artificial Intelligence’ revolution
Task 1
Choose a current affairs topic over the next 6 weeks that
you care about. Ideas below but choose your own!
Find and read 2 different
Suggested websites for news articles: news articles which
present a strong viewpoint
https://newsforkids.net/ on your chosen topic
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEo1gB9psJ-xMEuVVV
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https://www.dogonews.com/
Task 2
Write the text for a blog which states
your view on this topic (examples Search tool

provided on the ppt on Classcharts). Use

Share buttons
(social media)

images and consider your layout to Author picture and

date/reading time

engage your online audience. Share buttons

(social media)

Persuasive

The layout of your blog can be… viewpoint written

in a paragraph

Share buttons
(social media)

Comments from
other people

Images/ links to
more information
 Task 3
Choose ONE creative challenge to complete.
INFLUENCER!
Create an Instagram page
on A4 with quotations
from your current affair
topic articles in task 1 and
your own opinions.
We’d like to hear your
views on your chosen
current affairs issue on
your Instagram page so be
persuasive!
LETTER WRITER POET NEWS REPORTER
Write a formal letter of Create a news report on your
Write a 3 stanza poem to
complaint to your local MP topic.
state your views in a
stating your views on the protest poem on your This can be created as a
topic you have chosen. chosen topic. written tabloid newspaper
report with images and
Give reasons for your This could be a rap, in free captions, a headline etc.
views and examples to verse or even a sonnet. stating the facts and providing
support them. Get creative! viewpoint in the style of The
Sun or The Daily Mail.
Use the link below Remember the skills from
https://www.youtube.com/w your poetry unit earlier See the link below for help on
atch?v=G0EXT89D4Jk
this year! how to set this out
to check you have set out
your letter correctly and https://www.youtube.com/wa
remember to use formal tch?v=8_NmVtnEEA8
language.
How will I be assessed?
In your library lesson we will be hearing your reading and
showcasing your creative challenges and reviews.

Homework effort grades are reported home:

Grade 1 Outstanding Grade 2 Good Grade 3 Satisfactory Grade 4 Inconsistent Grade 5 Unacceptable
Deadline met. Deadline met. The Deadline met. The Homework is late. The Homework is rushed,
Homework is project shows good project is in line with project shows very late handed in and/or
exceptional and effort and careful your expected level of little effort and is incomplete. It shows
exemplary. thought given to the work. below your expected no progress.
tasks. level of work.

We will be awarding house points and contacting home to celebrate

your homework brilliance!