Oak Camp Diary Homework Due in by Thursday 5 th October Your homework ‘topic task’ for this week and the week after is to compile a camp diary. (All you will have next Friday for homework is spellings, reading and mental maths.) To make your diary effective, think about what we are doing in class on features of a diary. Here is our programme to help you remember what we did: Fencing, Archery, Zip wire, Giant Swing, Challenge Course, Canoeing, Trapeze, Photo challenge and Disco. You don’t have to write about all of these and you might describe the other” little” things that happened e.g. the journey, 1st impressions, what happened in your dorm, etc. You may handwrite word process or do a mixture. Your diary should have:

a front cover, contents page and at least 1 page for each day.

Your diary should be mainly written but have at least 2 pictures (you may use photos from our website or PGL website or somewhere else). Diaries will be displayed publicly so write on paper (not in your book) – presentation matters and don’t write anything too personal.

Reading task – Analysis to be completed by Thursday 19 th October In class we have been compiling an analysis of Esio Trot. Your task is to do your own book analysis: you might find it easier to choose another Roald Dahl book but you could do any book of your choice. Look at the attached example so you know what will make your book analysis ‘brilliant’ rather than just ‘ok’.

Esio Trot by Roald DahlThis is an example of what you might include in this type of book analysis.Strongest examples are likely to have the following: a mixture of facts and your opinion comments on the plot, setting and characters (what happens, where it happens and who is involved) quotes from the book which show a particular point comments on the author’s intent: why he has written the book as he has e.g. Roald Dahl uses a question to ‘hook’ the

reader and make the reader want to read on.

It is fine to use abbreviations (e.g. for characters you will be referring to a lot) but make it clear what the abbreviations stands for e.g. Mr. H = Mr. Hoppy, Mrs. S = Mrs. Silver

Pages Summary Deeper thinking5/6 The author’s note summarises how easy and popular it

used to be to own a pet tortoise. However, this was only because they were imported in a very cruel way and so the Government ‘stopped the whole business.’

This background information makes the plot more believable: Mr Hoppy could very easily have bought lots of tortoises.

9 Introduces Mr. H. Author uses a ‘hook’ to make the reader want to read on to discover the secret, ‘Mr. H’s second love was a secret he kept entirely to himself.’

10 Introduces Mrs. S.13-15 Introduces Alfie and shows how much Mrs. S cares for

him.Roald Dahl often has an animal as a main character in his stories.

16-21 Mr. H realises how much Mrs. S wants Alfie to grow and comes up with his plan.

It’s not that Mr. H doesn’t like Alfie; he just wishes Mrs. S cared for him as much as she does Alfie, ‘Mr. H wished more than ever that he could change places with Alfie and become a tortoise.’ (p.15)Author uses another hook, ‘something happened that changed and electrified Mr. H’s life.’ (p.16)

23-25 Mr. H tells Mrs. S what to do to make Alfie grow. The ‘backwards’ language makes some interesting and humorous words e.g. ‘Pu!’ Roald Dahl often includes made up words in his books to add humour.