Year Five Composition: Pricking Pomposity

We have been learning about 'pricking pomposity' and 'hyperbole' in comedy.

Task:
1. Write a scene - 10-15 lines - where a pompous woman gets her comeuppance. Make sure it is over-the-top.

2. Complete the self-assessment for self-improvement sheet for your homework.

Due: Tuesday.

Year Five Fiction: Pricking Pomposity in a Dialogue

We are going to learn to write comic - funny - stories using three tricks:
1. Hyperbole
2. Pricking pomposity
3. Fantasies of violence

Homework:
Write a conversation where a silly young man makes Sir Roderick Spode get in trouble with a policeman!

Write 3/4 side of A4. Don't forget to check your punctuation of direct speech and include plenty of shown feelings

Don't forget that you can learn more at our pupil wiki page for this unit.

Feeling clever? Include plenty of 'Wodehousian' vocab.

Year Five Fiction: Writing Comic Stories

We are going to learn to write comic - funny - stories using three tricks:
1. Hyperbole
2. Pricking pomposity
3. Fantasies of violence

Click here for videos and a reading list at the Falcons Girls pupil wiki.

Homework:
To write comic stories we're going to need lots of ideas. You are going to keep a journal of comic ideas.

Include jokes, silly rhymes and amusing pictures in your journal.

Year 5 Fiction: Including Description Alongside Dialogue

Last week we wrote a story about Lord Emsworth's beloved pig...now it is the turn of his pumpkins!

Write a comic story entitled 'The Stolen Pumpkin'. Include plenty of description alongside your dialogue, thoughts and shown feelings. Write one-and-a-half sides of A4.



Feeling clever? Try to include the Vicar of Nibbleswicke, or another character who plays with words.

Due: Monday.

Year 5 Fiction: Description of a Wodehousian Scene

In class we studied P.G. Wodehouse's use of descriptive techniques.

Task: Write a half-page description of the garden at Blanding's Castle (use your imagination to image it!), after first sketching the scene in your books.

Include all of Bald Worm's descriptive techniques.

Please annotate your 'finished' work with a gel pen or coloured pencil, showing me where you have used the different descriptive techniques.

Feeling clever? Try to include the following types of comma:
* Listing comma
* Joining comma (comma before connectives)
* Bracketing comma

Due: Thursday

Year 5 Comic Fiction: Writing in the Style of P.G. Wodehouse

L.O. To write a comic story using dialogue, shown feelings and contrasting thoughts

Task: Write your 'The Fattest Pig Competition' story. Include comic dialogue, shown feelings and contrasting thoughts.

Feeling clever? Set the scene like P.G. Wodehouse by describing a beautiful day, using all of Bald Worm's descriptive techniques.

Write 1 1/2 sides of A4. Don't forget to check your 'finished' work.

Due: Monday.

Year 5 - Who Wnts 2 No?

Write a 1/2 page dialogue between Dud and another, smarter child, where Dud tries to convince the other person he is right about something that is clearly wrong.

Use lots of shown feelings and include some thoughts, too.

The real challenge with this is to focus on your punctuation of direct speech. Don't forget this comma:

"Yes, this comma here," said Bob.

Year 5 Fiction: Using Contrasting Thoughts

L.O. To use contrasting thoughts to develop characterisation

What we say is very different to what we think - just look at the video above!

Learn more about using thoughts here.

Task: Write a dialogue between two girls getting ready for a big party. They are nice to each other in what they say...but what are they really thinking? Include lots of shown feelings and thoughts that reveal the 'real feelings' of these characters.

Write 1/2 side of A4.

Feeling clever? Include the 'Messi wiggle' (embedded subordinate clauses)

Due: Monday

P.S. Don't forget to learn your poem perfectly for the competition on Monday!

P.P.S. Don't forget to congratulate Year Six on their brilliant 11+ results!

Year 5 - Weekend Creative Writing - Suspense in a Comedy

L.O. To understand that you can include suspense in a comic story

Lots of girls think you can only use suspense techniques in an adventure or horror story. Not so, my friends!

Write a comic (amusing)story based the picture above and the following title: The Pumpkin Competition . Feel free to use the characters in the story we looked at in class. Make sure that you include our suspense techniques. Write one-and-a-half sides of A4.

Feeling clever? Even though we're focusing on suspense, don't forget to set the scene using all of our descriptive techniques!

Oh, and don't forget to describe the pig! Here's a video to help: