We are coming to the end of our work on the Golden Compass. Over the next three days, we will be producing a piece of writing on the video clip portraying Lara and Mrs Coulter. We will be working on the first part of the scene and then the final piece. Please send me your work in ONE edited piece at the end of the week.

Wednesday 

Today you will write a compound sentence to use later in your writing. Using your notes from yesterday and last week, you will write the first part of the final scene. Remember to :

• Refer to characters in different ways
• Include speech and remember to convey character and advance the action
• Communicate drama through varied sentence structures.

To write the first part of the final scene lesson 28

Thursday ( lesson 29 of Oak Academy)

In today’s lesson, you will edit and improve a short paragraph before analysing and planning the final part of this narrative scene. This is a dramatic scene where the characters have a heated discussion which turns into a brief, physical altercation.

To plan the final part of the narrative scene lesson 29

Some of you may well want to combine this lesson with tomorrow’s as I feel we have been analysing this scene for a while!

Friday ( lesson 30 of Oak Academy)

This is our final lesson on The Golden Compass. You have covered a lot of the grammar and some punctuation needed for Year 5/6 so the skills you have learnt you will be able to apply to other narrative writing.

In today’s lesson, you will complete a sentence level warm-up, with a focus on three short sentences used for effect. You will analyse model writing for this scene before writing their own narrative for the final part of the final scene.

To write the final part of the scene

Please send me ( Mrs Benson) your finished piece incorporating Wednesday and Fridays work. I am looking forward to reading your work.

Why not watch The Golden Compass  film so you can see the whole story? The video is available to rent on Prime or some of you may have another movie channel. His Dark Materials– the series- is available for free on -player. The first series covers The Golden Compass ( or Northern Lights the book). It may be something you would like to watch with your parents or an older sibling. It is not really suitable for younger children.

Bonjour!

I have been struggling to find a way to follow and keep up with our curriculum in French. However, I have been watching the Oak Academy videos which look fabulous and are a way of practising the language. Some of the work is vocabulary we have covered but each lesson has some interesting new phonetic information. It is also useful to repeat things we have learnt to embed it in our brain.

May I suggest doing one lesson a day this week. It’s a great afternoon activity and involves little or no writing! Each lesson follows on from the last. This week’s lessons are C’est Moi – this is me. There are 5 short lessons. Don’t attempt more than one a day as you won’t embed the language.

C’est Moi

Children off to secondary school next year will all learn a  modern language – for many of you it will be French, However, even if it is another modern language, having some knowledge of one language already will make it easier.

Au- revoir!

Wednesday 27th January

Today we are starting on our final scene of The Golden Compass. In this lesson, we will  begin to analyse this scene, with a focus on a new character- Mrs Coulter . We will then generate vocabulary to describe her character.

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lesson 21 to generate vocabulary 

This lesson is not very long and you may wish to tackle the comprehension on The Holocaust – see separate post. This is a sensitive topic and maybe something you would like to discuss with an adult. The children in school will be reading the comprehension on Wednesday with me,  and answering questions on it on Thursday independently. .

The Holocaust-differentiated-reading-comprehension UKS2

Thursday 28th January

In this lesson, you will revise and  define key word classes. You will then review your  knowledge of personal and possessive pronouns and then edit a short paragraph using pronouns to avoid repetition. Remember when writing it is important to use the person’s name before using a pronoun so people know who you are referring to!

lesson 23 personal and possessive pronouns

Friday 29th January

In today’s lesson we will revise rules of speech including speech punctuation. We will then write speech sentences for this final scene of the unit. Although this is not mentioned in the video, It is important to remember that every new speaker starts a new paragraph. This new paragraph may be the sentence that includes the new speaker and speech  or where the speaker starts speaking if this is the beginning of the sentence eg

Leaning forward, Mrs Coulter looked menacingly at Lyra and asked, “Why don’t you remove your bag?”

“I like wearing it,” replied Lyra clutching on tight to the aletheometer, terrified that Mrs Coulter may snatch it off her.

lesson 24 to practise speech punctuation and sentences.

The 27th January is Holocaust Memorial Day when we  remember the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust, alongside the millions of other people killed under Nazi Persecution and other genocides that followed. We touched on the persecution of the Jews and other groups of people in our topic The Battle of Britain.

Today in school,  I will sharing this assembly with my class. This is a sensitive topic and maybe something you would like to watch and discuss with your parents.

Holocaust Rememberance Day  Presentation

Our English lesson  is quite short today and you may wish to do this comprehension on The Holocaust. Most of you will be able to tackle the 2 star level. Rowling and Walliams, you could tackle 3 star. Again, this is something you may wish to talk about with your parents as you may find it upsetting . It is, however,  important that we never forget this terrible genocide.

Children in school on Wednesday will be reading the comprehension  and doing the follow up on Thursday.

The holocaust-differentiated-reading-comprehension-activityUKS2