Year Five: The Great Escape

Please complete your first draft of your 'Great Escape' story, using plenty of dialogue and shown feelings, please:


P.S. Don't forget we're recording the Comma Song next week.

Year 5 Fiction: Descriptions using Simile and Metaphor in the First 15 lines

We have been creating mind maps to gather descriptive ideas so we can help our reader imagine a World War II P.O.W. camp, like we can see in the video above.

Task: Write a ten-twelve line description of a P.O.W camp on the worksheet provided

Year 5 Fiction: The Silver Sword

Wow! We've completed our spy project! I can't wait to get to share your completed spy base suspense videos on Falconstube next week!

We're now beginning our World War II topic. Have you visited the Year 5 World War II wiki page, complete with reading lists?

Task: Please read the Silver Sword pack and complete the question sheet.

Year 5: Second Draft of 'Escape' Story (Weekend)

We've been writing and redrafting our P.O.W. World War II 'Escape'. Your homework is in two parts:

PART A
Either:

1. Type up your improved story and email it to me at baldworm@baldworm.co.uk (do not print it!)

or, if you really must...

2. Write it up in pen in your neatest handwriting on A4 paper.

Either way, make sure that you improve it as you write, because writing is rewriting!

Next week we'll record extracts from these stories as podcasts!

PART B
Next week you'll begin writing book reviews that will be posted at Books Go Global! This will be the first Year 5 flatclassroom project, where you'll share your work with children on the other side of the world!

Please select a favourite book, and bring it in to school on Wednesday, ready to write a brilliant book review!

Due: Monday

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 5 Fiction: Action Techniques 'Escape!' Story (Wednesday 25th November 2008)

L.O. To revise the use of action techniques
In class you planned a story for the title 'Escape!', featuring a P.O.W. escaping from a Nazi prison camp.

I want you to write the last part of this story: the action scene (the 'thumb' from your hand plan). Don't forget to revise Bald Worm's action techniques before you begin writing. Write about 10 lines, using all of our action techniques, especially powerful verbs.

Please annotate your 'finished' work, showing me where you used the different action skills.

Due: Thursday.

Year 5 - Writing a Longer Description: Evacuees!

L.O. To revise planning and writing a longer description; to include simile and metaphor in a longer description.

Please plan and write a longer description (five paragraphs; 1 side of A4 - not five pages; not half a page!): imagine you are an evacuee and you have just moved to a big farm in the country. Describe your new home.

Try to include both simile and metaphor.

Feeling clever? Included the listing and the joining commas

Year 5 Metaphor

L.O. To understand that metaphor is language that directly compares seemingly unrelated subjects, often with the form: "The [first subject] is a [second subject].

Homework: Write a short description (8-10 lines) of a bombed street, using both a simile and a metaphor, e.g. the houses were broken bottles. Write 10 lines. Annotate your finished work, showing me where you have used our different descriptive techniques.

Feeling clever? Try to include both listing and joining commas.

Due: Friday.

P.S. Don't forget you can leave comments explaining wby Mrs Mannan should be nominated for an edublog award here.

Year 5 - World War II - Descriptive Techniques

L.O. To revise the use of the five senses, colours, light, movement detail and figuarative language to 'set the scene'

We're going to be looking at stories set in the first and second world war - stories like Michael Morpurgo's War Horse. We'll be learning to write longer descriptions, and revising the suspense and action techniques we studied in the 'Spy' unit

You can revise Bald Worm's descriptive techniques here.

Task:

1. Imagine you are in a Poppy Field. Write a 6-8 line description, combining as many of Bald Worm's descriptive techiques as you can. Feeling clever? Try to include both the listing and the joining comma.

2. Annotate your 'finished' work with a gel pen, showing me where you have used the different descriptive techniques.

Due: Thursday