This Week's Activities:
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Activities for Week Beginning 13th July
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1. Monday's Literacy Activities
2. Tuesday's Literacy Activities
3. Wednesday's Literacy Activities
4. Thursday's Literacy Activities
5. Friday's Literacy Activities
Monday 13th July
Creative Writing:
We are now in our last full week of the strangest term we've ever had at school. It has been unfair and difficult, but also at times, different and fun and full of other opportunities and experiences.
Today we are going to reflect on our time before this all began and express our hopes for the future in poetry, using an existing poem as a model for our writing.
Click here to read 'If I had wings...' this beautiful poem....
We are going to use 'If I had wings...' by Pie Corbett, but we are going to an an extra element to the title. Our poems will be titled:
' If I had wings to visit my past
and reach my future..'
The Past:
If you could flyback to a time before all this change, how would you use this power?
What would you tell yourself?
What would you remind people?
How would you prepare them for a difficult time (but not specifically, like buy more hand sanitiser - be creative, what did we need to be as people?)
The Future:
What would you hope to see?
What world would you hope to see?
What differences would you hope to see?
What wouldn't you want people and yourself to have forgotten?
Your Task:
Learning Objective -:
1. To write some beautiful, thoughtful verses, expressing what you would like to tell yourself and the world if you could travel back before this difficult time.
2. To write some beautiful, thoughtful verses, expressing your hopes of what you want the future will be like after what we have experienced.
3. Grab the audience, engage them, and make them think about your words.
Here's my example if you need some guidance:
version of 'If I had wings...'
Tuesday 14th July
1. Reading Comprehension
This week, we are going to complete our trilogy of chocolate related comprehensions, to learn about a town called Bournville (like the chocolate bar) which wouldn't exist but for the invention of the chocolate bar in this country.
It is probably very very very very important yet again, that you nibble on some chocolate as you are reading this and answering questions... but it definitiely wasn't me again that told you this, okay ?
1. For Everyone,
Download the comprehension text and questions here
Answer the questions in your book in full sentences - the answers will be posted tomorrow.
Wednesday 15th July
1. Reading:
Task 1: Mark Your Comprehension
1. For Everyone -
Download the Bournville answers here
2. Punctuation and Grammar:
It's the hyphen you need to focus on today. He's a good chance to give your literacy brain a reminder of an often forgotten piece of punctuation we should be using.
Here's an excellent teaching powerpoint (and I've created a pdf in case you can't open a Powerpoint). to explain semi-colons, colons and dashes, and hyphens. Focus on the hyphens !
It's got an audio option, so you can hear someone read it if you click the speaker symbol on each slide.
Click here for the Punctuation Powerpoint
Click here for a Punctuation pdf version
Here's your 'Hyphen' task:
Place a hyphen in the following sentences to make the
sentences clearer.
1. The competition took place in a brightly lit room
2. Her long suffering friends supported her through all the preparations.
3. He worked part time so that he could prepare for the competition.
4. They were well known in the pie throwing world.
5. They were all given a ten minute break to recover.
6. The short haired man had strong hopes of winning the moustache competition.
7. This is an old fashioned game with straightforward rules.
8. This really was a record breaking afternoon.
9. We were excited to be taking part in this world famous competition.
10. His pursuit of the best place to iron was never ending.
You can mark your work by clicking here.
Thursday 16th July:
1. Writing
Using Vocabulary in Correct Context
Task 1:
Our vocabulary this week, comes from our final chocolate comprehension.
Make sure you challenge yourself and learn the meaning of some newer words or ones you find tricky to spell.
Choose wisely and challenge yourself - this is a great chance to level up that library of words in your head for future use.
Your task:
1. Choose 6 words (challenge yourself) from the list below.
.- you can use either of the two versions.
2. Write down the word, followed by what it means - its definition. Get used to using a real dictionary if you have one - if you haven't got one at homee, you could use an online dictionary.
Challenge 1:
Write a sentence using the word in its correct context.- so it makes sense in the situation you are writing about and you are using the correct meaning of the word.
Challenge 2:
Write a complex sentence, using linking punctuation ( ; - :), and using the word in its correct context.
Challenge 3:
When you have finished writing the definitions, include as many of the words as you can in one short paragraph. This week's theme is 'life in the future'.
Obviously, you will be using a full range of punctuation (ESPECIALLY hyphens THIS WEEK) , to help really say what you mean to say.
| spacious | rivalry | appalling |
| restrictions | conditions | cramped |
| alleviate | recreation | encourage / encouraged |
| revolutionised | unscrupulous | unfortunately |
Friday 17th July:
Writing: Creative Vocabulary Starter
Here's our literacy warm-up, and we're getting good at this now. How many words can you make from these two words below:
No using letters more than once, but you can use in any order. What is the longest word you can make?
R E P O R T T E R R O R
Writing Skills:
Write to Your Future Self
If you haven't finished you 'If I had wings ...' poem, from Monday, this is a good chance to complete it today. If you have, I thought it would be a nice thing to use all those thoughts which you put into your poetry on Monday, where you reflected on the last few months, and write them down in a letter to yourself for the future.
Task:
Write a letter to yourself, to be opened and read at a time in the future when this time will seem a distant memory.
1. Tell yourself all the good things you did - even the small, silly things you might forget - walks in the country, pouring buckets of water over heads, dressing up on May 4th, raiding the kitchen drawer to make animal sculptures...
2. Remind yourself of how the world changed and how you felt, and how you were resilient and got used to your new , strange world.
3. Remind yourself of the odd things you did - elbow bumping, the 2 metre distance, the fears that there'd be no toilet roll.
4. Write down anything you think you need to remind your future self of in case you forget in the years to come.
