Year Five Weekend Homework: Blitz Story

We have been writing a blitz story. This is our chance to show what we've learnt this term about using suspense and action techniques in a short story.

Task: Please write a story based on the 'Blitz' plan. Write 1 1/2 sides of A4. Please complete the 'self-assessment for self-improvement' sheet.

Due: Monday

Year Five: Writing a Suspense Scene

Homework explained here:


A couple of videos to inspire your writing!

11+ English Year 5 Fiction: Suspense and Action

We have been learning about combining suspense and action. You can revise these key skills at my short story techniques website, http://www.baldworm.co.uk.

Task: Imagine you and a friend are enjoying a nice day in the park...until you realise you are being watched...watched by something green, slimy and very hungry!

Don't forget to watch these videos to remind yourself of our key techniques.

Year 5 Fiction: Rescue!

Please finish writing the first draft of your rescue story. Write 1 1/2 sides of A4. Your aim is to include our suspense techniques:
* Impact sentences (3-4 word sentences)
* Using dashes
* Scary sounds
* Suspicious movements in the shadows
* Mentioning how dark and cold it is
* Asking questions, e.g. "Was I alone?"
* Talk about the character sweating
* Talk about the character’s heart
* Have the character call out, and tell themselves that there is nothing to worry about.

Feeling clever? Don't forget to include lots of characterisation.. This video introduces you to some of the key skills for making your character seem real:

Due: Friday.

Year 5 - Spooky Stories! (Thursday 15th January 2009)

Task: Please complete the first draft of your 'A Bump in the Night' Vampire story in your A4 book. Don't forget that you can revise suspense at http://www.baldworm.co.uk, Bald Worm's guide to writing a short story. Write 1 1/2 sides of A4.

Please read through your 'finished' work before throwing down your pen for the night!

Due: Friday.

Feeling clever? Don't forget to include brackets and dashes.

Don't have nightmares!

P.S. You can play our online countdown game here! Why not play against your family?

Year 5: Using Root Words

Please learn your Root Words spellings for a test on Friday. Don't forget you can learn these spellings by playing the games at Spelling City..

P.S. Don't forget to bring in the Parliament of Blood comprehension; we've be going through it tomorrow.

Year 5 Homework: Writing a story that includes Action (Thursday, 27th November)

L.O. To include action in a short story.

In class we 'set the scene' for your 'escape' story. For homework, I would like you to complete your first draft - you will have written 1 1/2 sides of A4 in total. Don't forget to include the action scene that you wrote last night.

You can learn more about story structure at Bald Worm.

Year 6: Revising Action Techniques

L.O. To revise action techniques

Write a full action scene based on the plan you created in class (don't write a whole story - just the action scene). Try to include all of Bald Worm's action techniques. Write 10 lines; remember to include plenty of shown feelings. Annotate your 'finished' work, showing me where you used the different skills.

Due: Friday

Year 5 Comprehension - Action Techniques Comprehension

L.O. To recognise the techniques author's use in an action scene.


We've begun looking at action techniques - the tricks authors use to write about fights or crashes. Learn more about writing action scenes at baldworm.co.uk: http://www.baldworm.co.uk/skills/action.html

Homework: Please complete the action techniques comprehension. Don't forget to P-E-E!
Due: Wednesday

Don't forget we'll be testing our spellings on Wednesday: Nouns that end in -o

Nouns that end in -o add -es when they become plural:
potato/potatoes, echo/echoes, hero/heroes

exceptions: studio/studios, piano/pianos, kangaroo/kangaroos, zoo/zoos

either: buffalo/buffalo(e)s, cargo/cargo(e)s, motto/motto(e)s

volcano/volcano(e)s

P.S. You can download copies of the previous Year Five comprehensions from our pupil wiki here:http://fsg.wikispaces.com/Year+5+Comprehension+Autumn+2008-9

Year 5 Spies: Including Suspense in a Full-Length Short Story

L.O. To include suspense in a short story.

You are going to write the 'gadget' story you planned in class.

In class we looked at how we can include suspense in the last third of a story. Your task is to write a full-length short story - 1 1/2 sides of A4 - that includes suspense, based on the plan you worked on in class. Remember there is a whole section of information on organising your story into a clear structure at http://www.baldworm.co.uk. You might also want to take a listen to last year's Year Six story structure podcast!

Please annotate the 'finished' spy story, showing me where you used suspense.

Due: Monday.

Year 5 Spies: Writing is Rewriting

L.O. To use short, impact paragraphs in a suspense scene

You're going to redraft the suspense scene you wrote last night; we'll record this work as a podcast on Friday, so make sure it is your very best work - it'll be heard all over the world! You should end up with 1/2 side of A4.

P.S. Don't forget it is your spelling test tomorrow!

Due: Friday

Year 5 - Spy - Suspense

L.O. To combine suspense techniques to write a scene of suspense

Homework: 1. Please write a ten line suspense scene where you - a secret agent - are creeping around the spy base you designed! Include all of our suspense techniques.

2. Annotate your passage, showing me where you've included our suspense skills.

Feeling clever? Try to include lots of shown feelings.

Due: Tomorrow

Learn more about suspense at: http://www.baldworm.co.uk/skills/suspense.html

Year 5 - Suspense Techniques

L.O. To know the techniques for creating suspense in a short story

We use V.A.K. approaches to help us remember key skills. Learn more about VAK here: http://fsg.wikispaces.com/VAK+and+MI

You are going to create a colourful A4 poster to help you remember Bald Worm's suspense techniques. Learn more about these techniques here.

Due: Monday

Year 5 Spy Project - Stormbreaker

We have read about James Bond's unfortunate experience with a deadly centipede, and seen how Ian Fleming uses suspense techniques.

Task:
Read the first chapter of Alex Rider's first adventure, Stormbreaker.

Due: Friday

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:

Year 5 - Impact Paragraphs

L.O. To revise the use of short, impact paragraphs in a passage of suspense

Imagine Montmorency is creeping around a house late at night. Write a scene of suspense, using all of Bald Worm's suspense techniques, where Montmorency fears he is going to be caught.

Write 10 lines - then annotate your writing using a gel pen to show me where you have used the different suspense skills! Make sure you include some short, impact paragraphs, and perhaps an ellipsis or two...

Due: Thursday

Don't forget we'll be making one of these next week!

Year Five Spy Project - Including Suspense and Action in a Short Story

L.O. To write a short story including suspense and action

There is a famous James Bond story entitled 'The Man With the Golden Gun'. You are going to write 'The Man with the ----' - and '----' means the spy gadget you designed over half-term, e.g. 'The Man with the Phone Hidden Inside a Copy of an Enid Blyton Book'

Your challenge is to use the suspense and action skills we've been studying within your story. Click here to revise these key skills.

For homework, finish the first draft (write 1 1/2 sides of A4), and type it up on your wiki page - and don't forget to know your poem 'by heart' for Monday!

Feeling clever? Use the bracketing comma when you include names in your dialogue, e.g. "What is the problem, Bond?"