Good afternoon, my lovelies!
This week's homework is to read the first three chapters of 'Two Weeks With The Queen' and answer the following questions to hand in by Friday:
1) Write a paragraph describing Colin's personality, using quotations from the text to support your statements. (eg "I know Colin is very ........ because on page 5 it says "........").
2) What time of the year is it at the beginning of the story? How do you know?
3) What country is Colin in? How do you know?
4) What did Colin get for Christmas?
5) What did he WANT to get?
6) Why didn't his parents get him what he wanted?
7) What did Luke get for Christmas?
8) How does Colin feel about Luke? How do you know?
9) What surprising thing happens to Luke in Chapter One?
10) Why does Colin walk across town to visit the doctor?
11) Why does the Matron in the hospital shout at the two nurses? (page 25).
Monday, February 27, 2012
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Homework!
This week's homework is to write a REVIEW.
You can choose whether you are writing a review of a movie, a book, a game, a theatrical performance, or an album. (You may even have some other ideas - if so, ask me and I'll tell you if that's okay.)
WHAT NOT TO DO: Please don't just write a summary. If you just write a summary of the plot, you are writing a bad review.
HOW TO WRITE A REVIEW WELL:
You need to tell us the title.
You need to tell us who wrote the book (or, if it's a movie, who's the director and who the main actors are).
You need to tell us the genre, and compare it to other examples of the genre - if it's a superhero movie, is it better than X Men or Thor? If so, why? If not, why?
You need to think about who the audience is supposed to be, and whether this movie is suitable for that audience. (For a game or a movie, this includes telling us whether it's PG, 13 etc etc and why.)
You need to give us some background - that means doing some research, so that YOU know about who the writer/director is and what else they have done before.
You need to think about what works well, and what doesn't work.
You need to tell us a bit about the main characters (and, if it's a movie, the way that the actors perform their characters - do you think they are well cast? If so, why? If not, why?).
You need to tell us a bit about the main relationships in the movie/book/game.
If it's a game, you need to tell us what makes it an exciting and successful game, and what weaknesses it has.
I've talked about this before; if you follow this link, you'll find examples of good book reports:
http://sweetlikecrabapples.blogspot.com/2011/09/homework-book-report.html
If you want to read some good examples of movie reviews, try Rotten Tomatoes, which will give links to many different reviews of each movie:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/chronicle/
(To read the FULL reviews, you have to click on 'Full Review'. The teaser for the first of the reviews on the 'Chronicle' page only says: "Chronicle is the kind of movie that makes one excited about the future prospects of the man at the helm" but when you click on 'Full Review' it takes you to the actual review, which is much longer:)
http://www.reelviews.net/php_review_template.php?identifier=2417
You can choose whether you are writing a review of a movie, a book, a game, a theatrical performance, or an album. (You may even have some other ideas - if so, ask me and I'll tell you if that's okay.)
WHAT NOT TO DO: Please don't just write a summary. If you just write a summary of the plot, you are writing a bad review.
HOW TO WRITE A REVIEW WELL:
You need to tell us the title.
You need to tell us who wrote the book (or, if it's a movie, who's the director and who the main actors are).
You need to tell us the genre, and compare it to other examples of the genre - if it's a superhero movie, is it better than X Men or Thor? If so, why? If not, why?
You need to think about who the audience is supposed to be, and whether this movie is suitable for that audience. (For a game or a movie, this includes telling us whether it's PG, 13 etc etc and why.)
You need to give us some background - that means doing some research, so that YOU know about who the writer/director is and what else they have done before.
You need to think about what works well, and what doesn't work.
You need to tell us a bit about the main characters (and, if it's a movie, the way that the actors perform their characters - do you think they are well cast? If so, why? If not, why?).
You need to tell us a bit about the main relationships in the movie/book/game.
If it's a game, you need to tell us what makes it an exciting and successful game, and what weaknesses it has.
I've talked about this before; if you follow this link, you'll find examples of good book reports:
http://sweetlikecrabapples.blogspot.com/2011/09/homework-book-report.html
If you want to read some good examples of movie reviews, try Rotten Tomatoes, which will give links to many different reviews of each movie:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/chronicle/
(To read the FULL reviews, you have to click on 'Full Review'. The teaser for the first of the reviews on the 'Chronicle' page only says: "Chronicle is the kind of movie that makes one excited about the future prospects of the man at the helm" but when you click on 'Full Review' it takes you to the actual review, which is much longer:)
http://www.reelviews.net/php_review_template.php?identifier=2417
Sunday, February 5, 2012
Homework!
Last week we read about the destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum when Mount Vesuvius erupted. You summarised the information in that article, and then you also took notes when I read you Pliny's first hand account of his uncle's death.
This week's homework is to write a vivid and detailed account of the destruction of Pompeii, writing in the first person ("I saw", not "he saw") and in the past tense. Imagine you were one of the people in the city of Pompeii and you managed to escape, and you are writing a letter to a friend telling them about your terrible experience.
Remember to include good punctuation and to check your grammar and spellings, and be sure to include lots of sensory details - what you SAW, HEARD, SMELLED, FELT (physically and emotionally) and even how things TASTED.
This week's homework is to write a vivid and detailed account of the destruction of Pompeii, writing in the first person ("I saw", not "he saw") and in the past tense. Imagine you were one of the people in the city of Pompeii and you managed to escape, and you are writing a letter to a friend telling them about your terrible experience.
Remember to include good punctuation and to check your grammar and spellings, and be sure to include lots of sensory details - what you SAW, HEARD, SMELLED, FELT (physically and emotionally) and even how things TASTED.
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