Week beginning Monday 11th May

• Read Holes up to and including Chapter 18. Take a block of time or a bit of time each day to complete.

• Complete the GPS slide and mark.

• Read the 4 setting descriptions, choose your favourite and evaluate its features, as well as giving reasons for your preference.

1. Which verb form completes the sentence?

After Disha ________________her medal, she gave a television interview.

a) is collecting b)had collected c)has collected d) was collecting

2. Where would the pair of commas come ?

I enjoy sitting in my bedroom even though it is quite small and listening to music.

3. Which two words are antonyms of each other? What looked like a worthless collection of rusty metal turned out to include ancient coins and valuable jewellery. 4. . Insert a dash and comma in this sentence?

Before we leave school our class wants to start a vegetable garden the first in our school’s history.

5. Which one prefix can be added to these three words to make their antonyms. secure, active, complete

GPS answers

1. b 2. after bedroom and after small 3. Worthless and valuable 4. Before we leave school, our class wants to start a vegetable garden- the first in our school’s history. 5. in

Read the descriptions on the next slides and pick one to analyse.

Fairground Description As night falls, the fairground glows luminous against the black sky. The fair is a

myriad of colours: dazzling lights flash and flicker; rides accelerate, hurtling

through the air; rich scents waft through the air. The places is alive with

booming music, exhilarated screams, delighted squeals and cheerful shouts.

Colossal, gyrating rides with vibrant, pulsating lights tower over the excited

visitors. A roller coaster spirals and coils, which makes it look like an elongated

snake twisting through the fair. Excited, thrilled, delighted children race to

join the spectacular rides. A lone girl waits by the big wheel smiling and tapping

her feet (inside she is petrified of the dizzying heights).

The air is filled with the mouth-watering aromas of sizzling hot-dogs, fluffy

candyfloss, spiced apples and sugary donuts. Some stalls sell hamburgers oozing

with burnt onions; others sell sweet treats of steaming coffee.

Anxious and agitated, excited and expectant a teenager stands huddled in a

long queue. The roller coaster is wild and rapid: it is the biggest and most

famous in England. High above the fairground, voices cry out and shriek with

laughter. The riders are exhilarated, exhilarated because they are zooming

rapidly along the tracks.

Nervous, a small girl holds her father’s strong hand and gazes up at the creepy

haunted house. The Waltzer, which is sparkling with luminous pink lights, whirls

and revolves uncontrollably. The more the ride spins, the more the children

scream.

UNDER THE SEA Far below where the golden sun shimmered on the surface; deeper than the rainbow coral; beyond the darkest of caverns stood the most glorious of all sights. Like golden shards from heaven, beams of light sliced through the darkness to reveal a myriad of colours. Plants, all neatly placed in organised rows waved at the passing traffic: shoals of silver fish; scuttling, red crab; lumbering purple squid and, of course, the daughters of Triton. Each girl swam through the ornate, golden gates to a corner of the palace garden. Adrina sped the furthest, to her own sanctuary. Isolated from her sisters, she began to twirl through the piles of delicate shells, each one baring more chips each time she visited. Like a tornado, she whipped up the seabed, creating diamond ripples that spread beyond her own room. Above her, the seaweed too danced from random corners where it hung from her collection of treasures from her ship wreck adventures. Aquata glided beyond her elder sister into her own private haven. As she gently lay herself onto the soft sea bed, she counted the rows upon rows of tiaras, pearls and potions. Assessing her collection, she flipped her tail fin, directing the team of sea sponges to address the residue that had gathered over night. Khaki green soldiers, the marched to their duty.

THE STORM

Dark purple clouds sprawl across the sky, billowing in from the west. The trees, etched different shades of brilliant green against their ever-darkening backdrop, stretch out their leaf-laden branches expectantly. The suffocatingly humid air grows heavy; the scent of rain is dark and heady on the stiffening breeze.

The birds fall silent. A stillness descends. For a moment, everything stops… Even the wind holds its breath until a jagged, startling, streak of silver splits the indigo sky.

A deep rumble of thunder growls in the distance like an angry lion announcing its presence. Increasing in intensity, it echoes round the hills, travelling across fields and villages, rattling the rooftops. Heavy drops of rain begin to splatter spasmodically onto the parched ground until, suddenly, the heavens open and the deluge is unleashed.

AN ALIEN WORLD

As the multiple moons exchanged places with the sun in the now azure sky, a misty haze began to form under the canopy of swaying, rugged trees. What was this place? Why was it so eye catching? Curling around thick spiraling branches were constricting vines, which braced and creaked. Dangling down from the layer of moss, vast, bold leaves flickered like church candle flames in breeze. Sweet scented pollen drifted through the archways created by the curving branches which created halos of light above and below.

However, the most delightful sight was the strange, exotic, unfamiliar plants which glowed bright neon colours. Sapphire, ruby and emerald pierced the sometimes dull surroundings - filling it with a song of life and colour. In addition, these supernatural forms danced and twisted as though keeping in time to some silent, environmental rhythm. This magical place was truly special, because even in the chaos of the natural surroundings, (where vines choked vines and branches beat down branches) it was perfect! It was hypnotizing! Although, there was still a sense that perhaps this was all a mask for a darker presence…

Below are the key features of a setting description, the use of carefully chosen vocabulary is key to a great description.

• Include an introduction

• Use your senses to describe

• Atmosphere and mood

• Figurative language

• Set the scene

• What can you see, hear, smell and feel.

• Scary? Peaceful? Sinister? Tranquil?

• similes,

• metaphors,

• personification,

• symbolism (e.g. Doves a symbol of peace, her life in chains, rainbows appearing) hyperbole(exaggeration)

Monday’s task

Choose one of the setting descriptions to analyse in detail.

Using the colour scheme, find examples of the different features in the passage.

Finally give an explanation as to why you chose this text and why you think it is a good example.

Post a picture of your work on Class Dojo

• Find examples of:

• Setting the scene

• Sight, sounds, smells and textures.

• The atmosphere

• similes,

• metaphors,

• personification,

• symbolism

• hyperbole

Tuesday 12th May GPS starter. Word Families

1. Which two words belong to the same word family?

family, famous, familiar, famine 2. What is the root word for this word family? unworthy, worthwhile. 3. Add another word to this family activity, act 4. Which words in this group belong to the same family? attention, attendant, inattentive, unattractive. 5. Add another word to this family hard

GPS Answers

• 1. family, familiar

• 2. worth

• 3. any word suitable- action, actor, actress, acting.

• 4. attention, attendant, inattentive

• 5. Any word suitable- hardness, hardy, hardly, hardworking.

Tuesday 12th May Selecting vocabulary As you know, vocabulary plays a huge part in bringing an image to life. Today, choose a picture and make careful vocabulary selections to help with you writing tomorrow. Look back at the setting descriptions from Monday, were there any words you could use? Try to up level ordinary words, the emphasis will be to be concise but expressive.

Now you have made your picture selection, create a diagram similar to below with ideas, images and vocabulary.

Set the scene As night falls the fairground glows luminously against the dark sky.

High above the ground towered the roaring waterfall tumbling down the craggy rocks under the brilliant blue sky

Create the atmosphere A misty haze began to form under the canopy of swaying, rugged trees. Rising out of the dense, grasping forest the castle stood strong against the hazy landscape as if to escape the trees’ clutches.

Sights Craters, crust,undulating dunes, turrets, decrepid, battlements,

Sounds Gushing/ roaring Silence whistling Cavernous-echoes

Smells Freshness,

Textures Moisture Gritty

Similes/metaphors Sand dunes like a serpent’s spine. Towers are a dragon’s claw.

Personification Reaching through the trees to breathe. Craters gently reaching to nestle Earth safely in its arms

Symbolism The castle rises from the green like a guardian angel. A life source rushing over the rocks .

Hyperbole Vast craters swallowing Earth. Gigantic rocks reaching up into oblivion.

Wednesday 13th May GPS Homophones

Add a word to each of these to create a pair of homophones. Groan Plane Isle Our Sail Fought Your Break Guessed Right Can you then use a pair of homophones in the same sentence. E.g. I write with my right hand.

Answers

Grown

Plain

Aisle

hour

Sale

Fory

You’re

Brake

Guest

Write

Wednesday 13th May Writing

Using all your ideas from your grid, you now need to describe your chosen picture. Remember, it is better to write less with carefully chosen vocabulary that describes the setting vividly for your audience. Share on Class Dojo once completed.

Thursday 14th May

Take this time now to ensure you are up to the end of chapter 18 of Holes.

Answers

HOLES Consider these questions about what you have read so far, you can write you answers or discuss them with an adult.

1. Why does X-ray feel entitled to take what the other boys find?

2. Why is Stanley surprised X-ray is leader of the group?

3. What does Stanley daydream about as he digs his hole?

4. Mr Pedanski tells Stanley it is his own fault he has ended up at Camp Green Lake. Do you agree?

5. Is Mr Pedanski unkind to Zero? Give your opinion using evidence from the text.

WRITTEN TASK

Hierarchy- a system in which members of an organization or society are ranked according to relative status or authority.

Using evidence from the text, how can you tell there is a hierarchy at Camp Green Lake? Try to show the many different ways the hierarchical system is demonstrated .

K B Stanley found the small gold tube with ‘KB’ on it. Such a small object has caused quite a stir. Why is this small object so important? What does KB stand for? Give your thoughts. This gold tube proves to be important can you predict how and why?