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Year 6 Summer 2 Week 5 English-

Hello Year 6! From the Whomping Willow in Harry Potter, to Alice falling down the stump into Wonderland and to Treebeard from Lord of the Rings, tree have provided inspiration for characters, stories and poetry for many, many years. This week, we will also be using trees as inspiration for our writing too. Below are a number of different activities for you to have a go at; try to unleash your highest level of tree-related creativity!

Reading:

There are four new, different 60 second reads at the bottom of this document for Monday to Thursday. On Friday, there are questions to answer using the Pobble 365 named ‘The Tree of Life’.

Spellings tasks: Ideas for practice: look up the definitions of each the words (some may be unfamiliar to you!); rainbow words and letters; build a cross word or word search; use them in sentences; mini home spelling bee. This week, see if you can get any of the words into your poems!

Words for the week: modal relative pronoun clause parenthesis bracket cohesion ambiguity adverb, determiner

Spelling shed list: Stage 6 List 34

Day: Writing task: Helpful hints:

Monday Task 1: Have a think: why are humans drawn to trees? What ‘character’ do we assign to trees?

(wisdom, age, steadfastness)what can we learn from trees? What are the similarities we can draw between people and trees?

Task 2:

Have a look at the poems in the Monday activities section below. Joyce Kilmer – Trees Philip Larkin – The Trees Advice from a Tree


Tuesday Task: Using the poems from yesterday, pick one to look at more closely. Annotate your poem with what you have noticed. Use the questions from yesterday to help you analyse the poem: What do they have in common with some of the other poems?

What do you like about the poem? What is the message of the poem? What is your favourite part of the poem? Why? Underline a line or passage that you feel is particularly good. You will need this for tomorrow’s

work!

Wednesday Task: Using the images below as inspiration, choose a poem to write. Steer clear or Tankas and Haiku ( as we did those a little while ago) but aside from that you are free to choose which ever

poem you would like! Try to incorporate some of your thoughts from Monday into your work. Yesterday, you underlined a particular section of your favourite poem. Incorporate this as part of your work today.

Thursday

Task: Pobble Creative Writing. Using the image (which is entitled ‘The Tree of Life’) as inspiration, improve the sick sentences below and produce a piece of Free Writing. Free Writing is when you write anything you feel

inspired to! As long as it contains the improved sick sentence and is linked to the image, you are good to go! You can use the story starter below to help you too!

Friday

Task: Pobble Creative Writing. Carry on with your creative writing from yesterday. Make sure you have edited and improved

your work to ensure that the vocabulary and sentence structures are the best you can manage.


Monday: Poems for analysis:

Advice from a tree

BY ILAN SHAMIR

Dear Friend,

Stand Tall and Proud

Sink your roots deeply into the Earth

Reflect the light of a greater source

Think long term

Go out on a limb

Remember your place among all living beings

Embrace with joy the changing seasons

For each yields its own abundance

The Energy and Birth of Spring

The Growth and Contentment of Summer

The Wisdom to let go of leaves in the Fall

The Rest and Quiet Renewal of Winter

Feel the wind and the sun

And delight in their presence

Look up at the moon that shines down upon

you

And the mystery of the stars at night.

Seek nourishment from the good things in life

Simple pleasures

Earth, fresh air, light

Be content with your natural beauty

Drink plenty of water

Let your limbs sway and dance in the breezes

Be flexible

Remember your roots

Enjoy the view!

Trees

BY JOYCE KILMER

I think that I shall never see

A poem lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is prest

Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast;

A tree that looks at God all day,

And lifts her leafy arms to pray;

A tree that may in Summer wear

A nest of robins in her hair;

Upon whose bosom snow has lain;

Who intimately lives with rain.

Poems are made by fools like me,

But only God can make a tree.


The Trees BY PHILIP LARKIN

The trees are coming into leaf

Like something almost being said;

The recent buds relax and spread,

Their greenness is a kind of grief.

Is it that they are born again

And we grow old? No, they die too,

Their yearly trick of looking new

Is written down in rings of grain.

Yet still the unresting castles thresh

In fullgrown thickness every May.

Last year is dead, they seem to say,

Begin afresh, afresh, afresh.


Wednesday: Pictures for inspiration.


Thursday and Friday sick sentences:


Thursday and Friday: Story starter.


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