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The Lost Thing – setting description

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We have been doing some imaginative writing – concentrating this week on writing a description of the setting. We watched the first part of the short film ‘The Lost Thing’ to help us.

Here is Sophie’s description:

” It was a bright summers dasy many years ago. I was walking along the beach. That is until I found the thing. That moment changed my life forever.

I was heading up to the rock pools when I heard a high pitched screeching noise. It was a noise that I had never heard before. It was like someone scraping a jagged piece of metal down a blackboard but a thousand times worse. As I got closer it got louder and louder. Finally I saw it. It was thin and boy. It looked lost, abandoned, hurt. Suddenly it stopped screeching. It had seen me.. It turned towards me and was staring at me with its pupiless, unblinking eyes. they were dark like a pitch black cave and murderous like a snake about to lunge on it’s prey. It was a pale reddish brown and had an extremely long neck. It had three long fingers on each hand and a large head with two slits in the middle of it instead of a nose. I had never seen anything like it. I wanted to run away but it was as though someone had glued my feet to the spot. It stretched out a long bony arm and beckoned me closer. As I went towards it I saw it had a series of gashes and bruises all over its body. I reached out to touch it but it curled and hissed like a cat. I was unsure what to think. Then I realised it had rows and rows of sharp teeth like thousands of tiny knives. It looked like there were some missing. Suddenly it lunged and it bit my hand. It felt like millions of wasps were stinging the same spot on my hand over and over again. I tried to shake it off, but it just bit me harder. Then a very strange thing happened…”

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Running Wild by Michael Morpurgo

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The class have been reading ‘Running Wild’ by Michael Morpurgo as part of a ‘Keys to Literacy’ project. This time we were looking at the key “Description Detective”. We had to scan through the chapter and pick out great description. We were looking for adjectives, similies, metaphors, aliteration, onomatopoeia words etc. We also were looking at ‘Scene Stealer where we had to draw a detailed picture of our favourite part of the chapter.

“…the shadow came into the light, flickered into a flame of orange fire, and became a tiger…”

“…a toucan flew off a sudden flash of colour…”

“…the tiger was right below me now, gazing up at me out of unblinking amber eyes, magnificent, awesome, teriffying…”

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writing character descriptions

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We have been writing character descriptions in class.

We had to good describing word such as strange, sticky and rough, we also had to use similies and metaphors. We listend to a film clip called the lost thing and had to use our imaginations to write it. Our target was describe what the character looks like, sounds like and wearing. Here is a piece of writing.

“A few years back I was sitting on the sand minding my own and thats when I saw it. A poor little blue scaly object, I walked over and thought it must have been washed up by the rolling frothy waves that were crashing into shore. I slowly bent down and picked it up, it had a small gash at the side of its head, its bright green eyes were locked on to mine. I picked it up it felt stone cold, it was a strange sticky feeling, rough but not slimey. I looked closer, it seemed to have gils but also tiny little legs, I felt sorry for the poor little thing. So i took it over to my little perch and pored water along its slimey body, it purred but not like any cat”.

By Rory

ENG 2-31a

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History of Hallowe’en

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On Wednesday we were learning what makes hallowe’en today.The celts started doing something called Samhain.  Their traditions were to have a big bonfire to ward of the evil spirits and welcomed the good spirits they used to do docking for apples just like today.

Hallowe’en is over 2000 years old.  In the U.K. the celts started it all in 600bc to 50 ad. In 43 ad the Romans invaded and two Roman festivals came to be celebrated at the same time as the celts. The first festival was called Feralia a day when Romans commemorated the passing of the dead.

We had to read a very long passage and highlight the important information.  We were only meant to highlight key words.  We then had to make a poster using the information.

LIT 2-15a

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Literature Circles

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Twice a week we take part in Literature circles. We decide how much we are going to read and decide a task to complete for next time. We also look and discuss the tasks that others in the group have done. It is important that we all read what we have decided and complete the task for the next time the group meets.

This task was to create an alternative book cover.

This task was to design a poster advertising the book.