Creating Wonder - the Opening of a play HW

Creating Wonder - the Opening of a play HW

IF you are going on the theatre trip, write a comment on what you thought of the play (particularly the opening). How did it grab the audience’s attention?

If you aren’t going on the trip, you may write about ANY theatre trip that you have been on.

We will discuss the results in tomorrow’s lesson!

Hope you enjoyed the play...

Spelling List 4

Blue List

Feet

Neat

Cheat

Seat

Fight

Tight

Slight

Write

Height

White

Purple List

Treat

Beneath

Complete

Believe

Mischief

Heavy

Straight

Caught

Daughter

Weight

Yellow List

Weather

Researcher

Feature

Distraught

Cough

Pause

Flaw

Rough

Wheat

Relief

Spelling Test 3 - Topic Words

Spellings this week are from our class reader novel The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman.


Blue group:

Plot
Character
Describe
Setting
Narrator
Graveyard
Relationship
Tomb
Buried
Journey

Purple Group:

Character
Describe
Setting
Narrator
Graveyard
Treacherous
Tombstone
Amphitheatre
Inhabitants
Epigraph

Yellow Group:

Character
Description
Narrator
Acquaintance
Obelisk
Perpetuity
Epigraph
Amphitheatre
Perpetual
Culmination

Don't forget to look up the meaning of any words that you don't know - you can use an online dictionary like http://dictionary.reference.com/ 

Test on Tuesday 20th Nov!

Spelling Test 2 - Vowel Choices

Please choose the list that is most appropriate for you ability - the first one is easiest, the second more difficult and the last one is the most difficult.  DO try to stretch yourself - don't do the easiest one if you already know how to spell all of these words!

Spelling test is on Friday 9th Nov.  If you are not sure of the MEANING of a word - look it up in a dictionary!

List 1

Eat

Beat

Sweet

Meat

Treat

Kite

Night

Light

Right

White

List 2

Cheat

Treat

Wheat

Fleet

Sleet

Spite

Knight

Height

Weight

Write

List 3

Pleat

Feat

Complete

Beneath

Straight

Caught

Daughter

Weight

Believe

Mischief

Writing Assessment - An Object of Significance

Today we planned your written assessment: to inform and describe an object that has significance for you.

Task: Write about a special item of significance in your life – something that you love (320-400 words).   Write on A4 lined paper or on a computer.  Do not write this task in your blue books OR in your Wonderbooks! 

Due Date: Tues 16^th October.

Remember to:

•       Explain why it is so precious to you

•       Give a detailed description

•       Use paragraphs to organise your ideas

•       Use a wide range of punctuation and sentence types

•       Use literary techniques such as simile and alliteration to make your descriptions vivid

•    Write at least three well-developed paragraphs (target 320-400 words)

You will be assessed on:  (Writing – the Green Grid)

AF2 – Understanding purpose, task and audience

AF3 – Structure and sequencing

Af6 – Sentence structure and punctuation

AF8 – Spelling

You had such an interesting range of objects - I look forward to reading your descriptions!

Reading for clues...

Over the last two weeks we have been working hard to find evidence from different texts that explain how a character feels.  Finding evidence (quotations) is key to understanding how you can read and understand texts.

We practised writing PEE paragraphs (POINT, EVIDENCE, EXPLANATION) and completed your first formal assessment that got you to use the skills we have been practising.

We are moving onto working on WRITING skills, so your HW is:

•In your WONDERBOOK, write two paragraphs that describe the beginning of a JOURNEY.  This could be a journey to anywhere! 

•Remember to:

• Use imaginative vocab
• Use imagery (similes/metaphors)
• Appeal to a range of senses

•Due in: Wed 10th October.

The Arrival!

Welcome to your own personal English Blog!  This is designed to help you with English lessons at school.

We have been studying 'The Arrival' by Shaun Tan.  This is a really lovely book about arriving in a strange place and so far you have:

• Read the whole story
• Begun to explore how we can 'read' a book without words
• Examined how a writer can structure description by 'zooming in' and 'zooming out'

On Wednesday 26th Sept you designed your own creature.

HW that is due on Friday 28th Sept is to:

•       Find an example of a description of someone arriving at a new place.  This could be from a novel or a non-fiction book.

•       Bring this in (or print it out if it is on the internet). 

•       It only needs to be ONE paragraph in length!

See you then

Mrs Roberts