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Summer Two English PlanningENGLISH2.6.208.6.2015.6.2022.6.20WritingIf you can, watch the film – The Wonderful Wizard of OzWatch the film of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz. (It is on Netflix)If you can’t don’t worry – watch youtube clips and read the summary below.Writing – Summarise the film in no more than 100 words – be concise but don’t miss out key moments of the plot.Draft and edit to really make your writing spot on! – Trailer to the Wizard of OzWatch the trailer – answer the questions in full.What bits of the trailer appeal to you – why?Even though the film was released in 1939 – what do you think it is that makes the film a classic and is watched by new generations year on year?How do the special effects and graphics compare to today’s films?If you could change anything what would you change and why? – Somewhere Over the Rainbow by Judy Garland.Listen to the song.Writing – If you could fly over the rainbow and reach for your dreams what would they be, where would they take you? TITLE: Over the RainbowMake sure you give detailed reasons for your answers. Think about sentence openers and mixing up clauses to make sentences varied and interesting. Use all punctuation known to enable you to get across points clearly to your reader.Make sure vocabulary is relevant, lively and interesting.Edit your work thoroughly for SPG and to improve in a green pen – send in your edited work please.Write your own blurb for The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.Remember you have to be succinct, yet capture your readers’ attention through your choice of words. Don’t give too much of the plot away but still tempt your readers in. Be exciting and imaginative, short snappy sentences and wonderful vocabulary, questions to tease your audience and snippets of action and plot to entice.Edit then send in published piece.Reading the summary of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank Baum.1. What is the key difference in this summary to the story as we know it? Pictures of Dorothy might help!2. Pick out any new words you come across in this summary and find their meaning using an online dictionary. a go at the quiz 1 – let me know your score.If you want to, try your hand at the other 3 quizes.Reading Eggs Baum in his writing explores 7 themes in the Wonderful Wizard of Oz – read all 7 themes and then explain in a written piece which you think yourself is the most important theme in his book. There is no right or wrong answer it is simply how you explain your thinking and reasoning to me.SPaGGranmmar – Comparative and Superlatives pg 8 Scholfield and Sims grammar.Punctuation – Apostrophe revision pg 14/15 Scholfield and Sims punctuation .Punctuation – semi - colon revision pg 28/29 Scholfield and Sims punctuation .Spelling – Homophone revision.Write sentences for:To/too/twoWhere/were/ wearThere/their/they’reOf/offSpelling – CGP KS2 English pg 70/71/72 – spelling test questions.Granmmar – agreement – verbs.Pg 30/31 Scholfield and Sims grammar.It’s a joke! Punctuation – dashes, commas, ?, ! revision pg 31 Scholfield and Sims punctuation .Summer Two English PlanningENGLISH29.6.206.7.2013.7.20WRITINGTo write a short story based upon a proverb.(Curriculum Bank pg 115)Define short story.Key elements – SPaG/ detail evident.Draft – Edit – Publish.St Mary’s – My journey – My thoughts – My memories.A piece of writing that chronologically follows the years spent at St Mary’s. Done with continuity and flow to show links between events and years.Thoughts to detail and description with apt vocabulary choices and extended punctuation and grammar learned this year.Tips and hints for the new year 6.Children to write concisely, keeping to relevant points, organising work appropriately. To end with a more detailed account of their time in year 6 and how they felt about it.Thinking about vocabulary choices that explain, support and encourage the reader.READINGCGP KS2 revision pg 14 – Non-Fiction – The Marathon – questions to answer.Reading EggsLooking at what is to be their new school’s websites – navigating pages and finding information.SPaG our word and spelling knowledge.Playing against a computer – looking up all the new words the computer finds to increase vocabulary. at least 3Speed and accuracy at finding spellings.Grammar – Conditional sentences - Scholfield and Sims Grammar pg 43 ................
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