Year Five: Dialogue & It's and Its

We have been learning about 'its' and 'it's', and beginning the Noir unit.

It's is a contraction for it is or it has.

Its is a possessive pronoun meaning 'of it' or 'belonging to it'.

If you can replace it[']s in your sentence with it is or it has, then your word is it's; otherwise, your word is its.

Revise by listening to this Bald Worm podcast:

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Homework
Please write a dialogue between a hard-boiled detective and a 'dame' in a speakeasy. They are discussing a crime the dame would like the detective to commit. Try to include both 'its' and 'its' as part of your dialogue!

Write 1 side of A4.

Due: Tomorrow

Alpha Plus Year Six Noir Videos

Thanks to Mr Churchill, our IT guru, we've been able (finally!) to share our Noir stories! Click and enjoy!

We love to share our writing using video, through our school YouTube channel, FalconsTube.

Year 6 Fiction: 'Femme Fatale' Rewrite

We've been writing 'Noir' stories. Listen to one of the first drafts, and keep your ears peeled for some brilliant use of personification:


Task: We've been thinking about creating atmosphere in our stories. Please redraft your 'Femme Fatale' timed writing piece, adding additional Noir slang, developing the atmosphere and working towards the target on your card. Write 1 1/2 sides of A4.

Feeling clever? Next week we are going to focus on the semi-colon. Try throwing in one or two into your story!

Due: Monday

And just for fun:


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Year 6 Fiction: Noir Suspense

Please write the homework suspense scene, using as many of our suspense techniques as possible. Don't forget, try to avoid cliché!

Due: Friday

Year 6 - Simple Plans

We've been studying the importance of planning simple stories - and we've been trying to include suspense as part of these plans.

Homework: Complete three simple 'hand plans' for the three titles you were given in the first mock examination, but make sure (i) you plan to include suspense and (ii) one of your stories should be set in the Victorian era.

The titles:

1. A Severe Temptation
2. An Extraordinary Discovery
3. Write a story beginning with the sentence, "What on earth do I do now?" she said.

Due: Tomorrow

Year 6 Fiction - Including Suspense in a Short Story

L.O. To revise the inclusion of suspense techniques in a short story.

Write a 'Noir' story - using our hard-boiled slang - for the title 'A Severe Temptation'. Write 1 1/2 sides of A4. Make sure you include our suspense techniques.

Feeling clever? Write the following at the top of your page, and 'tick them off' as you write

- Fragment sentence
- Impact sentence
- Compound sentence (the joining comma)
- A complex sentence with the adverb starter comma
- A complex sentence with the bracketing comma
- A complex sentence with brackets
- Bracket
- Semi-colon
- Colon
- Dash

Year 6 Noir Fiction - Femme Fatale

L.O. To include complex sentences in a dialogue

Last night we revised the use of complex sentences.

Write a dialogue (1/2 page) between a innocent man and a dangerous femme fatale, where the femme fatale wants to con the man into giving her something she wants - like his wallet!

Try to include complex sentences in your dialogue, e.g.

"Look, doll face, do I look like a rat?" (I've 'bracketed off' doll face)

Feeling clever? Don't forget to present your dialogue in different ways.