Year Five and Six Composition Homework

Year Six
Please complete writing up your Montague story for display. Use your best handwriting - and make sure that you check any spellings that you are unsure about with a dictionary.

You may choose to decorate the border in the style of the Montague illustrations. Lead pencil only, please.

Due: Thursday.

Year Five
Please read through the Bald Worm on Suspense pack you were given in class. Try to summarise it in your own words.

Watch the Bald Worm video mini-guide for more help:

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 Composition: Bring in Your Spy Base & Create Poster of Suspense Techniques

Your homework comes in two parts:
(1) Try to bring in your Spy base tomorrow. If it isn't finished, bring it in on Monday.

(2) Please create a neat, colourful poster showing all of our suspense techniques. You can use coloured pencils, textures, pictures from a magazine...but no felt tips, please. This is an example of visual learning.

You can find the full list here, at baldworm.co.uk

The poster is due tomorrow (Thursday).

Year Five Composition: Build a Spy Base!

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 a bad guy.





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 class next Thursday! 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: Try to bring in next Wednesday, but if you need until a week on Monday that will be fine.

Here is one of the bases from last year.

P.S. Learn all about our suspense techniques:

Year 5 Spy Models Videos

Want to see the Year 5 spy models? Visit their page on the pupil wiki to watch an Animoto video of the secret bases!

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 - 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 - Jane Blonde P-E-E Comprehension

We've begun our spy project!

Homework: Complete the 'Jane Blonde' comprehension. Stuck on a question? Visit Bald Worm's comprehension blog: http://bit.ly/comprehension
.

Click here to visit the fantastic 'Jane Blonde' site!">

Year 5 - Thursday & Friday - P-E-Eing Masterclass

L.O. To use the P-E-E approach to answering comprehension questions

Comprehension is a vital part of the 11+ exams - and the secret to high scores in comprehension is to P-E-E all over the page!

You are going to have a two day masterclass in using evidence to 'prove' your points.

Remember, there is loads of comprehension advice at Bald Worm's comprehension blog.

Thursday
Listen to the Year Six Comprhension Podcast. Pay particular attention to the first couple of minutes, when the girls talk about reading with a pencil, annotating and P-E-Eing all over the page.

Please complete the 'Hurricane Gold' comprehension for homework.

Friday
Please complete the 'Stormbreaker' comprehension for homework. Don't forget to bring in the 'planning and seven/eight lines' homework - and you need to have your Spy HQ bases finised for Thursday!

Year 5 - Planning for Conflict & Preparing for our 'Spy' Project

1. Please complete the five handplans for each of the different types of conflict.

Due: Thursday.



2. Next week we are going to be looking at spy novels, because this is a brilliant way to learn about using suspense and action.

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 a bad guy.





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 class next Thursday! 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!