Year Six: Sherlock Holmes and the Locked Room

Year Six have been learning about using a variety of 'sentence openers' to add variety and interest to their writing. We've been writing 'locked room' stories featuring the 'consulting detective' Sherlock Holmes and his faithful friend, Dr. Watson.

Task: Please complete the first draft of your 'The Locked Room' story. Remember to use a full range of sentence openers!

Due: Tomorrow (Friday)

P.S.

(image by Simon Hua; used under Creative Commons agreement)

Year Six Composition Homework: Writing the First 15 Lines of a Sherlock Holmes Story

Year Six are writing stories about Sherlock Holmes solving a devilish crime: a corpse in the school room!


Task: Write the first 15 lines of your story (just the first 1/2 page). Don't forget to open with an exciting opening line, 'set the scene' and describe one of the characters.

Don't forget you can revise key elements of story writing by listening to my 'quick revision' podcasts!

The First 15 Lines of a Short Story on Prezi

Feeling clever? Try to use an elegant prose style. Learn more by watching this Prezi:

Elegant Prose on Prezi

Year Six Description Homework

We're beginning our Sherlock Holmes and Detective story unit, where we'll continue to revise the structure of the first 15 lines of a short story, including the use of description to 'set the scene'.

Task:
(i) Before you start writing, revise descriptive techniques by listening to this 'quick revision' podcast:

Powered by Podbean.com

Or you may prefer to revise by watching this:


Task:
Write your own description of Sherlock Holmes' room. Write 8-10 lines. Make sure you include at least two similes.

Feeling clever? Include brackets, a colon and a semi-colon as you 'set the scene'

Year Six Sherlock Holmes Mindmap

Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.

Over the next two weeks we are going to secure our knowledge of how to structure the first 15 lines of a short story.

Homework: Visit the Falcons Girls Sherlock Holmes page on our brilliant pupil wiki: http://fsg.wikispaces.com/Year+Six+Holmes Do a little more research, and then create a second, full colour version of your Sherlock Holmes MindMap.

The 'strands':
* Sherlock
* Dr. Watson
* The author
* (If you're feeling clever) Deduction

Due: Thursday

Year 6: Holmes!

Over the next two weeks we are going to secure our knowledge of how to structure the first 15 lines of a short story whilst studying Sherlock Holmes. Just click on 'play', wait for it to load, and click through the presentation:

Click on the Sherlock Holmes prezi to learn more about the great detective:

Year 6 - Thursday & Friday: The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

L.O. To write a detective story featuring a fictional detective

You are going to create your own Holmes-style Victorian detective. Learn more about inventing a character here.

Thursday
In class, you created a fictional detective, and began to plan a story based on an 'open' title; please write the first 15 lines of that story for homework. Don't forget to describe your detective's study/flat and what they look like!

Feeling clever? Include a colon as you set the scene!

Due: Friday.

Friday

In class you wrote 'The Broken Vase' under timed conditions. Please type up this story, improving it as you go, and either (i) bring it in on USB or (ii) email it to me at baldworm.co.uk so we can put together a 'The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes' laminated book for the school library!

Due: Monday.

Have a great weekend - next week we will be looking at reported speech, and revising characterisation.
Don't forget to get your friends and family to listen to our Year Six Comprehension Techniques podcast, and feel free to add to our Flat Classroom project, http://timezoneexperiences.wikispaces.com/Time+Zone+Chart

Year 6 - Vary Dialogue Openings

English
L.O. To vary dialogue openings in the first 15 lines of a short story.

Please complete the 15 lines you began with a partner in class. Don't forget to include a character description.

Feeling clever? Try to include a colon, the listing comma, the joining comma and the bracketing comma in the first 8 lines! Quite a challenge - you'll have to 'split your brain in two'

Due: Thursday.

Mathematics
Please work for 1/2 hour in your Mental Ar. book

Year 6 - A Sherlock Holmes Story

//L.O. To write a detective story.//

In class we looked at how to plan a detective story based on Sherlock's deductive methods.

Plan and write a Sherlock Holmes story entitled The Stolen Watch. Write 1 1/2 sides of A4. Make sure it is a story of deduction, not a story of a crime!

Feeling clever? Include all of these commas in the first 15 lines of your story:
* Listing
* Joining
* Bracketing
* Adverb-starter

Please use our checking strategies when you have 'finished' your work.

P.S. Don't forget your costume for the special 'Comprehension' assembly on Monday!

Year 6 - Optional Homework

L.O. To revise the structure of the first 15 lines of a short

Your optional homework task is to write the first 15 lines of this plan.
Complete the work in your A4 blue books.

Year 6 - Sherlock Holmes: Setting the Scene

Over the next two weeks we are going to secure our knowledge of how to structure the first 15 lines of a short story.

Learn more about the Red-Headed League here. You can listen to a podcast of 'The Red-Headed League' here (try refreshing the page if the player fails to load).

Homework: Write an eight-ten line description of Sherlock Holmes' rooms in 221b Baker Street, using the floor plan to help you! Include as many of our descriptive techniques as you can; don't forget that the best writers make sure they use a varied prose style as they write.

Year Six - To infer

We looked at the importance of inference. Sometimes someone will try to tell you something without coming right out and saying it. He will imply it. When you understand what is implied, you infer. You can revise the online inference quiz here.

Homework: Please complete the 'Willie and the Bone' comprehension.
Due: Tomorrow.