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

Year Five Planning for Conflict

Task: Please write three different 'mouse' hand plans for one of the five forms of conflict we studied in class.

Due: Thursday

Visit the Year Five 'planning a story' section on the pupil wiki here: http://fsg.wikispaces.com/Year+5+Planning+2008-9

Year 5 Homework: The Fab Four Golden Rules

Task: Click here and read all about the 'fab four golden rules for planning a short story'.

P.S. Watch the latest Bald Worm mini-guide - Bald Worm on how to write a script for a play:

New Bald Worm Movie: The Fab Four Golden Rules for Planning a Short Story

Year 6 - Simple Plans

We've been studying the importance of planning simple stories - and we've been trying to include suspense as part of these plans.

Homework: Complete three simple 'hand plans' for the three titles you were given in the first mock examination, but make sure (i) you plan to include suspense and (ii) one of your stories should be set in the Victorian era.

The titles:

1. A Severe Temptation
2. An Extraordinary Discovery
3. Write a story beginning with the sentence, "What on earth do I do now?" she said.

Due: Tomorrow

Year 5 - Planning: The Fab Four Golden Rules

We have started to look at how to plan under timed conditions.

Homework:
1. Read the information on the Fab Four Golden Rules for Planning a Short Story at my website, http://baldworm.co.uk

2. Create two plans - brainstorming and writing out a clear plan - for the titles

(i) The Terrible Storm

(ii)The Angry Cat

Write the plans neatly into your A4 blue book.

P.S. Disappointed with your comprehension score? You would have scored a lot more marks if you'd used the P-E-E approach. Click here to learn more. You should also listen to this podcast before next week's comprehension lesson.

Due: Tomorrow

There is a page telling you about all the work we'll be doing on planning over the next couple of weeks at the pupil wiki: http://fsg.wikispaces.com/Year+5+Planning+2008-9

Year 5 Fiction - Planning for Conflict

L.O. To understand the different forms of conflict.

We've been studying the 'fab four golden rules of conflict. Click here to revise the fab four.

Today we focussed on planning stories with conflict.Click here to revise conflict.

Homework: The weekend homework comes in two parts:

1. Using the picture prompt, write five different plans - one for each of the five forms of conflict we studied in class. Remember to revisit baldworm.co.uk if you're not sure about any of the five forms of conflict!

You may plan in your preferred format, but make sure your writing is legible!

Visit the 'Planning a Short Story under Examination Conditions' area on the pupil wiki to download another copy of the worksheet.

Feeling clever? Make sure your stories build to a climax!

2. Next week we are going to begin our preparation for Assessment Week by revising Descriptive Skills. Start your revision by clicking here. On Monday I'm going to give you a little test: I'm simply going to ask you to list as many descriptive techniques as you can remember, e.g. Similes, Light, Movement, Smell, etc.

Due: Monday.