Thursday 4th June
Grammar Warm Up
LC: to innovate sentences with parenthesis to add extra information
Let's read these sentences out loud to hear where the parenthesis is:
a) My brother - the younger one - goes to a different school to me.
b) My ipad (which I got as a gift) has a black case.
c) The black rhino, found in Africa, is an endangered species.
d) The movie - which didn't scare me at all - was cool.
e) The new boy (the one with dark hair) lives on my road.
The new boy (the one with dark hair) lives on my road.
The new boy (the tall one) lives on my road.
The new boy (........................................................................................................................................................................) lives on my road.
The movie - which didn't scare me at all - was cool.
The movie - the one I saw with my sister - was cool.
The movie - ..................................................................................................................................................................... - was cool.
LC: to write in role as a character
We are going to tell part of the story from
Macbeth's perspective.
What does this mean?
Discuss with your talk partner.
Let's create a diary toolkit.
We are going to think and write
as Macbeth using
the first person.
We will write about when he meets the witches on the heath.
Begin:
As my good friend Banquo and I were making our way, exhausted but jubilant after our victory, we came upon a fearful sight. Out of the gloom there appeared to be ....
Remember to use the Diary Toolkit.
LC: To be able to calculate the capacity of a container in metric units.
Complete the RIC.
LC: to infer characters' feelings thoughts and motives from their actions and justify inferences with evidence.
Look at the back cover of the book.
Which words and phrases tell you what kind of book this is?
Do we need to be terrified when we are reading it?
Remember this is fiction, a made-up story, which is not based on anything real.
What do we think might be the main difference between the two choices of endings?
As you read pages 1-5 independently (until the line ending 'infested with sadness') think about how Jack and Luca's attitudes towards exploring Cogston House are different.
What clues are there?
LC: to use our understanding of the ordnance survey symbols and compass points to read maps
Watch the video and answer the questions in your Geography book.
Complete the missing compass points on the sheet.
What do these symbols represent?
a)
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b)
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c)
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d) 
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