Tuesday, 26 May 2009
Monday, 25 May 2009
Fantabulous Homework Week Five
In Varrox you may come across many strange sights including fantastic birds, dragons, monsters and mythical beasts. One great challenge to writers is how to describe such creatures so that readers can 'see' and believe them.
I would like you to imagine that you are a visitor to Varrox and that you have come across a fantabulous creature which you have to describe clearly, colourfully, and with life.
'Deep down here by the dark water lived old Gollum, a small slimy
creature. I don't know where he came from, nor who or what he was. He was
Gollum - as dark as darkness, except for two big round pale eyes in his thin
face. He had a little boat, and he rowed about quite quietly on the lake; for
lake it was, wide and deep and deadly cold.'
Remember how vividly J.R.R. Tolkien describes characters, creatures and places in The Lord Of The Rings. We know what Gollum looks like, sounds like, moves like, smells like and feels like because Tolkien has worked hard to tell us. You work hard now to describe your amazing creature. You must be able to clearly see this creature in your own imagination before writing.
I look forward to reading about your amazing creature!
Times table focus = 7x.
Remember to list all of the books that you read during the week.
In Varrox you may come across many strange sights including fantastic birds, dragons, monsters and mythical beasts. One great challenge to writers is how to describe such creatures so that readers can 'see' and believe them.
I would like you to imagine that you are a visitor to Varrox and that you have come across a fantabulous creature which you have to describe clearly, colourfully, and with life.
'Deep down here by the dark water lived old Gollum, a small slimy
creature. I don't know where he came from, nor who or what he was. He was
Gollum - as dark as darkness, except for two big round pale eyes in his thin
face. He had a little boat, and he rowed about quite quietly on the lake; for
lake it was, wide and deep and deadly cold.'
Remember how vividly J.R.R. Tolkien describes characters, creatures and places in The Lord Of The Rings. We know what Gollum looks like, sounds like, moves like, smells like and feels like because Tolkien has worked hard to tell us. You work hard now to describe your amazing creature. You must be able to clearly see this creature in your own imagination before writing.
I look forward to reading about your amazing creature!
Times table focus = 7x.
Remember to list all of the books that you read during the week.
Sunday, 24 May 2009
Lord Of The Rings Drama
The video clips below are dramatisations from the Stairs Of Cirith Ungul in The Lord Of The Rings. It was a challenge to get our heads around the rich language that JRR Tolkein used. We will try some more this week. The clips are to be watched in reverse order as Mrs M uploaded them in the wrong order for viewing. Ooops!
Friday, 22 May 2009
Thursday, 21 May 2009
Sunday, 17 May 2009
Varroxian Homework
Gollum was tugging at Frodo's cloak and hissing with fear and
impatience. `We must go,' he said. `We mustn't stand here. Make haste!'
Reluctantly Frodo turned his back on the West and followed as his guide
led him, out into the darkness of the East. They left the ring of trees and
crept along the road towards the mountains. This road, too, ran straight for
a while, but soon it began to bend away southwards, until it came right
under the great shoulder of rock that they had seen from the distance. Black
and forbidding it loomed above them, darker than the dark sky behind.
Crawling underits shadow the road went on, and rounding it sprang east
again and began to climb steeply.
Frodo and Sam were plodding along with heavy hearts, no longer able to
care greatly about their peril. Frodo's head was bowed; his burden was
dragging him down again. As soon as the great Cross-roads had been passed,
the weight of it, almost forgotten in Ithilien, had begun to grow once more.
Now, feeling the way become steep before his feet, he looked wearily up; and
then he saw it, even as Gollum had said that he would: the city of the
Ringwraiths. He cowered against the stony bank.
A long-tilted valley, a deep gulf of shadow, ran back far into the
mountains. Upon the further side, some way within the valley's arms high on
a rocky seat upon the black knees of the Ephel Duath, stood the walls and
tower of Minas Morgul. All was dark about it, earth and sky, but it was lit
with light. Not the imprisoned moonlight welling through the marble walls of
Minas Ithil long ago, Tower of the Moon, fair and radiant in the hollow of
the hills. Paler indeed than the moon ailing in some slow eclipse was the
light of it now, wavering and blowing like a noisome exhalation of decay, a
corpse-light, a light that illuminated nothing. In the walls and tower
windows showed, like countless black holes looking inward into emptiness;
but the topmost course of the tower revolved slowly, first one way and then
another, a huge ghostly head leering into the night. For a moment the three
companions stood there, shrinking, staring up with unwilling eyes. Gollum
was the first to recover. Again he pulled at their cloaks urgently, but he
spoke no word. Almost he dragged them forward. Every step was reluctant, and
time seemed to slow its pace. So that between the raising of a foot and the
setting of it down minutes of loathing passed.
Wordstudy Who wrote this extract? What is the title of the book? Underline the words that you are unsure of the meanings. Select at least five and define them. USE A DICTIONARY!
How does this setting compare to Varrox? What are the similarities? Differences?
Timestable Focus = 6x.
Remember to record the books that you read every day!!!
impatience. `We must go,' he said. `We mustn't stand here. Make haste!'
Reluctantly Frodo turned his back on the West and followed as his guide
led him, out into the darkness of the East. They left the ring of trees and
crept along the road towards the mountains. This road, too, ran straight for
a while, but soon it began to bend away southwards, until it came right
under the great shoulder of rock that they had seen from the distance. Black
and forbidding it loomed above them, darker than the dark sky behind.
Crawling underits shadow the road went on, and rounding it sprang east
again and began to climb steeply.
Frodo and Sam were plodding along with heavy hearts, no longer able to
care greatly about their peril. Frodo's head was bowed; his burden was
dragging him down again. As soon as the great Cross-roads had been passed,
the weight of it, almost forgotten in Ithilien, had begun to grow once more.
Now, feeling the way become steep before his feet, he looked wearily up; and
then he saw it, even as Gollum had said that he would: the city of the
Ringwraiths. He cowered against the stony bank.
A long-tilted valley, a deep gulf of shadow, ran back far into the
mountains. Upon the further side, some way within the valley's arms high on
a rocky seat upon the black knees of the Ephel Duath, stood the walls and
tower of Minas Morgul. All was dark about it, earth and sky, but it was lit
with light. Not the imprisoned moonlight welling through the marble walls of
Minas Ithil long ago, Tower of the Moon, fair and radiant in the hollow of
the hills. Paler indeed than the moon ailing in some slow eclipse was the
light of it now, wavering and blowing like a noisome exhalation of decay, a
corpse-light, a light that illuminated nothing. In the walls and tower
windows showed, like countless black holes looking inward into emptiness;
but the topmost course of the tower revolved slowly, first one way and then
another, a huge ghostly head leering into the night. For a moment the three
companions stood there, shrinking, staring up with unwilling eyes. Gollum
was the first to recover. Again he pulled at their cloaks urgently, but he
spoke no word. Almost he dragged them forward. Every step was reluctant, and
time seemed to slow its pace. So that between the raising of a foot and the
setting of it down minutes of loathing passed.
Wordstudy Who wrote this extract? What is the title of the book? Underline the words that you are unsure of the meanings. Select at least five and define them. USE A DICTIONARY!
How does this setting compare to Varrox? What are the similarities? Differences?
Timestable Focus = 6x.
Remember to record the books that you read every day!!!
Wednesday, 13 May 2009
Homework Week Three
Oral Language
A poem has been selected for each child in our class to memorise. They will have their own copy to keep at home and practise.
A group of children will be assigned to each day of the week on which they will recite their own poem to the class. This continues for the rest of the year. Challenges for improvement will be offered so that over time the recitation will gain strength.
During Term Four there will be the opportunity to recite other class member?s poems.
This activity covers, in part, the oral language section of the curriculum. It also assists in developing memory, listening skills, correct pronunciation, self-confidence, sense of rhythm and a deepening appreciation of the richness of our language.
We will begin these on the first day of week 4. Often the first couple of weeks are a little daunting and hesitant. However, I have infinite faith that their efforts over time will create performances to be proud of!
Bobby Murphy
A poem has been selected for each child in our class to memorise. They will have their own copy to keep at home and practise.
A group of children will be assigned to each day of the week on which they will recite their own poem to the class. This continues for the rest of the year. Challenges for improvement will be offered so that over time the recitation will gain strength.
During Term Four there will be the opportunity to recite other class member?s poems.
This activity covers, in part, the oral language section of the curriculum. It also assists in developing memory, listening skills, correct pronunciation, self-confidence, sense of rhythm and a deepening appreciation of the richness of our language.
We will begin these on the first day of week 4. Often the first couple of weeks are a little daunting and hesitant. However, I have infinite faith that their efforts over time will create performances to be proud of!
Bobby Murphy
Sunday, 10 May 2009
Thursday, 7 May 2009
A comment from Lennox
I watched the German Coastguard on the blog and I am still sinking about it.
from Lennox
from Lennox
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