Year Five & Six Weekend Composition Homework

Year Five
1. Please complete the 'planning for conflict' work we've started in class. Due: Monday 2. Don't forget to work on your secret spy hq!

Year Six
Please write the first 15 lines of a story where Watson first meets Sherlock. P.S. Why not download this podcast - on writing the first 15 lines of a short story - and listen to it before you start writing? Just click on the icon to download to your computer: Due: Monday

Year Five and Six Prose Homework (Tuesday 13th September)

Year Six Prose Homework Please write a description of the headquarters of the Red-Headed League. Include at least two semi-colons. Write 8-10 lines. Feeling clever? Include a colon, too. Year Five Prose Homework (Using the Listing Comma) Please write a description of the school, using the listing comma, e.g. In Year Five there are blue chairs, several top-of-the-range Apple laptops and a collection of multicoloured pencils. Due: Friday

Comprehension: Year Six & Year Five homework

Year Five
Please complete the 'Bond in the Market' comprehension; don't forget to use quotes from the passage - evidence - to prove your points:

Due: Friday

Year Six
Please complete the 'Willie and the Bone' comprehension. Don't forget to think about Willie's character.
Revise what we learnt by discussing the 'Dallas & Florida comprehension by listening to the downloading this 'Talking Comprehension' podcast on Contrast: Due: Friday.

(Image via ComicsAlliance)

Year Six Redrafting Using the Mitford Method

In class you wrote the first draft of a story under timed, examination conditions, based on an image from Chris Priestley's 'Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror'.

Task: Redraft your story using the 'Mitford Method'. Make as many improvements as possible, please.

Due: Monday.

Feeling clever? Try to write a distinctive story:

Fun extension task:
Produce a piece of artwork based on the original cover of Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror.

Year Five Weekend Homework: Planning from a picture & Building a Spy Base!

Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.

1. In class we learnt about hand plans.

Your task is to create a colourful, neat hand plan for display in the classroom, based on one of the pictures in the hand plan pack. Make sure you include both your brainstorm and the plan itself. Remember, keep it simple!

Due: Monday


2. Spy Base
In a couple of weeks you are beginning your Spy unit. We are going to write suspense scenes set in your secret spy base. Learn more about suspense here.



Novelists often use models to help them 'picture' a location in their imagination (a bit like playing in a doll house!); I would like you to design and build a secret hq for an evil spy master!




Build a model of a secret hq. Here are some of the things you could include:

* Banks of computer screens
* A giant map of the world
* Secret doors or compartments
* Torture chamber (yuck!)
* Sharks!
* Henchmen/goons
* Evil pets
* Rockets
* Dwarf servant
* Desk
* Armchair with buttons

How you build the model is up to you! Here are some of the materials you might choose to use:
* Cardboard boxes painted over
* Sticky-back plastic
* Wood
* Paper mashed and glued
* Washing up bottles
* Model Paint

This video will give you some ideas (don't make Tracy Island, though! Just use the same techniques!)



Hint: Design the hq on paper before you start to construct it!

Be as imaginative as you can! Bring your model into when you've finished! We are going to base a series of stories in this location, so do a great job! There will be a small prize for the best model!

We'll photograph the models and stick them on the pupil wiki for the world to enjoy, and then write scenes and stories set in this location!

Due: Two weeks time.


P.S. Learn all about our suspense techniques here, or download the Bald Worm on Suspense mp3 at the 11+ revision page on the pupil wiki:

Year Five & Six Homework Tuesday 6th 2011

Year Five Homework
Please complete the Daydreamers comprehension in your purple book. Don't forget to bring it in on Friday!

Year Six Homework
Please write the first fifteen lines of one of your plans - don't forget to open with an exciting first line and 'set the scene'.

Due: Friday

Welcome Back, Falcons Girls!

Welcome back to another exciting year at the Falcons School for Girls: 'West London's Most Creative Preparatory School', girls! We have so much to look forward to this year, including the play, Residential Week and our new Apple technology!

Year Five Homework
Please complete the 'Daydreamer' comprehension. Answer all of the questions, please.

Revise how to read a comprehension passage here: https://fsg.wikispaces.com/Year+5+Comprehension+Autumn+2008-9
P.S. The wiki page for our first compostition unit is here.

Your class reader this term is Jane Blonde.

Year Six Homework
Please complete the 'Dallas & Florida' comprehension.

Due: Friday.

Your class reader is Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror. Our first composition unit is on revising how to plan a story.