Week commencing 30th November 2020.
This is the second week that we will be using the text Shackleton’s Journey by William Grill to complete several short writing tasks. We will follow through the book to map the journey and watch a film clip which brings to life many of the extreme conditions they were faced with during their expedition. We will look at the different characters and their roles during the expedition.
English
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Work through the book. Use expedition map to support mapping of events until the ship broke up. Read to Weddell Sea and Pack Ice |
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Read A change off plans and winter months. Investigate sentences for parenthesis ( extra information) |
home to your parents- using parenthesis examples. This will be an informal letter. |
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Read Pressure and Loss of Endurance Identify modal verbs |
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Read Preparing the James Caird. Role play saying goodbye to crew members including the emotion Think about how to turn dialogue into speech. |
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Examples of speech accurately punctuated |
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The role of the journalist |
Read to the end of the text. Now the story has been told, what as a journalist would you like to know more about? |
Hot seating- in role interview members of the crew- note take in journalists notebook |
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Science:
This week we are learning about the differences between irreversible and reversible changes. Can you find out what these two terms mean?
Then find out and list any reversible changes you have seen happening at home. Most of these you might find in the kitchen.
For example; what change happens when you make toast or cook an egg? What change happens when you boil water in the kettle?