Homework

Khush - your homework is to learn all your lines for A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Nidhi, Rose, Vishwa, you guys can also concentrate on your lines this week instead of writing something; you're doing very well, but the more you go over them the more confident you'll be.

Everyone else - we've been working on spooky stories, so here is a suitably spooky song!

THRILLER
by Michael Jackson

It's close to midnight and something evil's lurking in the dark
Under the moonlight, you see a sight that almost stops your heart
You try to scream but terror takes the sound before you make it
You start to freeze as horror looks you right between the eyes
You're paralyzed'Cause this is thriller, thriller night
And no one's gonna save you from the beast about strike
You know it's thriller, thriller night
You're fighting for your life inside a killer, thriller tonight

You hear the door slam and realize there's nowhere left to run
You feel the cold hand and wonder if you'll ever see the sun
You close your eyes and hope that this is just imagination, girl!
But all the while you hear the creature creeping up behind
You're out of time

'Cause this is thriller, thriller night
There ain't no second chance against the thing with forty eyes, girl
Thriller, thriller night
You're fighting for your life inside a killer, thriller tonight

Night creatures calling, the dead start to walk in their masqueradeThere's no escaping the jaws of the alien this time
(They're open wide)
This is the end of your life

They're out to get you, there's demons closing in on every side
They will possess you unless you change that number on your dial
Now is the time for you and I to cuddle close together, yeah
All through the night I'll save you from the terror on the screen
I'll make you see

That this is thriller, thriller night
'Cause I can thrill you more than any ghost would ever dare try
Thriller, thriller night
So let me hold you tight and share a
Killer, diller, chiller, thriller here tonight

'Cause this is thriller, thriller night
Girl, I can thrill you more than any ghost would ever dare try
Thriller, thriller night
So let me hold you tight and share a killer, thriller, ow!

(I'm gonna thrill ya tonight)
Darkness falls across the land
The midnight hour is close at hand
Creatures crawl in search of blood
To terrorize your neighborhood

And whosoever shall be found
Without the soul for getting down
Must stand and face the hounds of hell
And rot inside a corpse's shell!

The foulest stench is in the air
The funk of forty thousand years
And grizzly ghouls from every tomb
Are closing in to seal your doom

And though you fight to stay alive
Your body starts to shiver
For no mere mortal can resist
The evil of the thriller

For each red word, please write the definition and use it correctly in a sentence.


http://www.youtube.com/embed/sOnqjkJTMaA

Housepoint-winning opportunity for anyone who can learn and perform the full Thriller routine.

http://www.youtube.com/embed/hhbYxXg7p-A
http://www.youtube.com/embed/X6EDAZ3crdY

Homework

This week's homework is READING. Or at least, writing about something you have read.

As you know, it's your mission to read something fabulous every night.

This week, I want you to write a letter, or a diary entry, pretending to be one of the characters from your favourite novel.

You need to write in character, using the kind of speech patterns that they would use. (Like when we wrote letters pretending to be the main character in 'Two Weeks With The Queen'.) It would be a good idea if you could make the diary entry be about something very exciting that has happened in the story.

As usual, I'm looking for the 6 (+1) traits of good writing in your finished pieces and they should be at least 400 words long

Homework

This week's homework is to create art for the spooky story you're working on (including title, obviously) and a carefully written back-cover blurb to go with it.

You've already created a picture of your main character (or protagonist). But you need to create (on A4 paper):

- Front cover art (must be coloured);
- Back cover art (including the blurb);
- illustrations of at least 3 key points in the story (can be coloured or black'n'white, whichever you prefer).

You can create it by hand or using the computer (THAT DOES NOT MEAN YOU COPY'N'PASTE SOMEONE ELSE'S WORK OR JUST SLAP ANY OLD PHOTO IN) or a combination of the two.

When you've finished editing and rewriting the stories in class, you'll be typing them up and we'll put them together as books. This is going to be the artwork for your book.

Homework COMPETITION

The Media Action Team are running a competition for students to submit articles for a school newspaper, which will be published at the end of this Term. This week's homework is to write an article of your choosing to be submitted to the school newspaper (only the very best articles submitted will go in the finished newspaper, but every article submitted will win housepoints).

Your article should be between 100 and 500 words long.

It can be:

1) A report about something that has happened during this year (either something exciting and important at school or outside of school);

2) Your opinion/viewpoint about something that affects young people today;

3) An in-depth feature on a topical world event, such as the Olympic Games;

4) A review of something (book, movie, album, TV show, restaurant, fashion etc).


We spent a lot of time back in Term 2 working on writing newspaper articles - you interviewed people, you wrote reviews, you wrote about subjects you found interesting. Try to remember the style of writing that you used then. (If you want to check your newspaper articles in Student Share you can always open them again and remind yourself of what we did. Alternatively, pick up a newspaper or magazine and look through it to remind yourself of the right way to write this kind of article.)

Next week we shall be using our 6 (+1) writing traits to edit and improve your pieces of work before submitting them to the School Newspaper Competition.