Week from 23rd to 27th March 2020
Instructions are in RED
Friday 27th March:
Today's Task - Science Passive Write-up
Today you need to write up your science experiment from yesterday in the same way we have learnt to do it at school. I will give you a checklist below to remind you how it's done.
1. Title :
Its important to have a title which details what the experiment is looking to find out. It should begin with "An experiment to..."
2. Apparatus:
A list of all the equipment you need.
3. Diagram:
Some clear, labelled diagrams to show how the experiment is set out. You might want to draw these in steps.
4. Method:
Remember, we must use the passive voice, to focus on the equipment and elements of the experiment, not the 'doing' of it.
Example: The glass must be filled with warm water.
Not
Fill the glass with warm water.
5. Results;
Copy out your results table here.
6. Conclusion:
This is where you talk about why you have obtained the results you did? Why did the salt dissolve quicker in one particular type of water. This is not the place to just repeat what you saw (you've just done that in 'Results'). This is where your scientific thinking should be used- we need to find answers, so the word 'because' will force us to explain things. If you'fe not sure why , how about doing some research online as to why materials dissolve.
...and that's this week's literacy all done and dusted.
Thursday 26th March:
Writing:
1. Task 1 - Vocabulary / Spelling starter:
Make as many words as you can from:
I N C O N T R O V E R T I B L E
There is 'incontrovertible' proof that the longer children are at home during the day, the more their parents may need ear-plugs.
Incontrovertible - means 'not able to be denied, or disputed. It is proved to be true. It can't be argued against'.'
Who will be the incontrovertible creation champion?
Who will make the longest possible word?
Let me know how many words you can find and the longest one you make - remember, you can only use each letter once, unless it appears more than once in the word. e.g you have two e's.
2. Task 2 - Time Machine Instructions:
I'ts now time to create your list of instructions on how to operate your time machine, designed yesterday. Make sure you refer to the labels on your labelled diagram, but there may be other parts and components which you need to mention.
Checklist for Writing Successful Instructions:
1. Full punctuation - (you know who you are, you capital letter haters ;))
2. This may be a complicated machine to operate so lets see some of the most ambitious vocabulary you've ever used.
Lots of strong verbs and adverbs/adverbials to clarify how to operate it in detail.
E.g. With eyes focused on the needle, rotate the dial to the left. This is a strong adverbial This is a strong verb
3. The use of the passive voice may help in creating a more effective list, focusing on the equipment when needed, although you may not need to use it at all times.
Example of Passive and Active Voice.
This is in the active voice:
Manoeuvre the quantum flux operating lever delicately into place until the atomic dial approaches 29.7 percent, however, be careful to avoiding putting strain on the lever itself.
This is in the passive voice:
The quantum flux operating lever must be delicately manoeuvred into place until the atomic dial approaches 29.7 percent, however, be careful in avoiding putting strain on the fragile lever itself.
I will attach an example here if you are unsure what you need to do:
Here's an example of my Time Travel instructiions. I've also created a blank special sheet if you want to print it out and use that:
Click here for example time travel instructions
Click here for for blank time travel template.
Wednesday 25th March:
1. Reading:
Here are all the comprehension answers to mark yesterdays questions. Correct any which you may not have quite understood.
-- For those with Stage 3 Essential Texts: Essential Ts:
Answer the following questions in full sentences.
In the Beginning and Pandora's Box (Page 30).
The answers are now available for marking.
(Click here if you want to download a pdf version of the answers)
-- For those with Stage 4 Essential Texts: Essential Ts:
Answer the following questions in full sentences.
Oliver Twist (Page 8).
The answers are now available for marking.
(Click here if you want to download a pdf version of the answers)
2. Creative Writing:
1. Ensure that you poetic version of 'The lonely Chair' is written up beautifully: no spelling errors, capital letter to begin each line, and separated into verses (if that works better for your poem).
2. This week's comprehensions threw up lots of incredible new vocabulary. This is great, as it will provide us with a host of new, powerful new words to shape or future writing... but we need to know how to spell them and what exactly they mean.
Your task:
1. Choose 6 words from the list below.
.- you can use either of the two versions.
2. Write down the word, followed by what it means - its definition.
Challlenge 1:
3. Write a sentence using the word in its correct context.
Challenge 2:
3. Write a complex sentence, using linking punctuation ( ; - :), using the word in its correct context.
Challenge 3:
3. When you have finished writing the definitions, include as many of the words as you can in one short paragraph about any topic you like. It may be a creative descriptive paragraph, an explanation or some thoughts on a subject. Obviously you will be using a full range of punctuation to help really say what you mean to say.
| reserve / reserved | drape / draped | bustle / bustled |
| shrivel / shrivelled | wilt / wilted | assiduous / assiduously |
| reckless / recklessly | temerity | stupify / stupified |
| allottt / allotted | animate/ animated | confine / confinement |
| controvert / controverted | compose / composition | voracious |
I am looking forward to seeing
some of your amazing work from this week.
Tuesday 24th March:
1. Reading:
Here's all the comprehension questions for books 3 and 4 - there's two challenges for each one. Choose the challenge you think is appropriate for you and we'll have answers tomorrow.
-- For those with Stage 3 Essential Texts: Essential Ts:
Answer the following questions in full sentences.
In the Beginning and Pandora's Box (Page 30).
The answers will be available tomorrow for marking.
(Click here if you want to download a pdf version of the questions)
Challenge 1:
Look at Page 30
- 1. Where did the Gods live?
- 2. Who was Prometheus’s brother?
- 3. What did Prometheus make out of soil?
- 4. What punishment did Zeus give to Prometheus?
Look at Page 31
- 5. Who taught Pandora to play music?
- 6. What wedding present did Zeus give to the couple?
- 7. How did they hide the present so they would forget about it?
- 8. Why did they want to hide the present out of the way?
Look at Page 33
- 9. What was the only thing left in the box?
- 10. What did Pandora decide to do with the final thing in the box and why do you think she did this?
Challenge 2/3:
Look at pages 30 to 31
- 1. What was different about the earth before Prometheus and his brother
- got to work?
- 2. Explain the use of semi-colons in the second paragraph.
- 3. Explain what ‘…but Man will look at the stars!’ means.
- 4. Why might Zeus believe fire should only be for the Gods?
- 5. What does it mean when it says that Mercury gave Pandora a ‘clever
- tongue’.
- (6. Challenge question) Why is the accepting put in italics?
Look at pages 32 to 33
- 7. What convinced Pandora to open the chest?
- 8. Can you find 4 onomatopoeia words (they sound like their meaning)?
- 9. Why do you think DEATH had the tiniest ‘purring’ voice?
- 10. Some stories say Pandora kept hope in the box; why do you think she let it go in this one?
-- For those with Stage 4 Essential Texts: Essential Ts:
Answer the following questions in full sentences.
Oliver Twist (Page 8).
The answers will be available tomorrow for marking.
(Click here if you want to download a pdf version of the questions)
Challenge 1:
Look at Page 8
- 1. How many people were involved in dishing out the gruel?
- 2. Why do you think the bowls never wanted washing?
- 3. Why did they suck their fingers?
- 4. What terrible thing did one boy think he might have to do out of hunger?
- 5. Who was chosen to tell the master they wanted they didn’t have enough?
Look at Page 9
- 6. What did Oliver get hit on the head with?
- 7. Find and copy a word which tells you had sad Oliver was.
- 8. What did the man believe Oliver's punishment would be?
- 9. What is an apprentice?
- 10. What do you think Oliver might end up working as in Victorian times?
Challenge 2/3:
Look at page 8
- 1. What was the food served from in the hall?
- 2. What does the word ‘devoured’ suggest about the boys hunger?
- 3. What do you think ‘hinted darkly’ means?
- 4. Find out what ‘per diem’ actually means and what language it is.
- 5. How did they decide that Oliver should ask for more. Describe this in your own words.
Look at pages 9
- 6. ‘What does ‘reckless with misery’ tell you about what Oliver was prepared to do.
- 7. Explain why the master ‘gazed in stupefied astonishment’.
- 8. It had been decided exactly how much food each boy should have. Can you find a word which relates to this idea.
- 9. What was the first punishment Oliver received and what does it mean.
- 10. What does an animated discussion mean?
2. Creative Writing:
1. A full edit of your 'Lonely Chair' descriptive paragraph: full spell check, full range of punctuation where needed.
( ; ; , ? ! )
2. Create a 'found' poetic version, using the technique we used in our Stormy Sea Hy-brasil work.
Your poem is hiding inside your prose - but remember, you may need to remove words and adjust the grammar to make it work, and add extra features and adjectives/adverbs to make it even more powerful and strange.
This task will cover Wednesday as well so your final version will be as good as it can be.
I am looking forward to seeing
some of your amazing work from this week.
Monday 23rd March:
1. Reading:
- For those with Stage 4 Essential Texts:
Read Oliver Twist (Page 8)
-- For those with Stage 3 Essential Texts: Essential Ts:
Read In the Beginning and Pandora's Box (Page 30)
Comprehension for both books will be posted on Tuesday morning - read the book today so you have a good idea in advance of the story extract. Date your page in your writing book and make some notes about what you have read - summarise it like a blurb on the back of a book.
2. Creative Writing:
Follow the instructions below:
If you want to download this task to printout or view in another application, you can do so by clicking here for a pdf file version.
