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Richmal Crompton

1890-1969

Week 1 Monday Comprehension 1

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Similarities and DifferencesWilliam and the School Report

Similarities Differences

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Week 1 Tuesday Comprehension 2© Original plan copyright Hamilton Trust, who give permission for it to be adapted as wished by individual users. Y5/6 Sum F 1B Classic fiction

Words taken from William the Intruder“She’s different from everybody else in the world,” stammered Robert ecstatically.

ecstatically means:

William retired with dignity to the window.

retired means:dignity means:

Robert gave a sardonic laugh.

sardonic means:

He had been told not to obtrude himself upon her notice.

obtrude means:notice means:

She was dressed in white and carried a parasol.

parasol means:

…, till a slight movement in the bushes arrested her attention.

arrested means:

William’s dignity was slightly offended by his pointed exclusion from the party, but he had resigned himself to it.

pointed means:resigned means:

He proposed a boat on the river after lunch.

proposed means:

Mrs Brown descended the stairs with a tray on which reposed a half-empty bowl of gruel.

reposed means:

Robert turned his haggard countenance upon her as though his ears must have deceived him.

haggard means:countenance means:Week 1 Wednesday Word reading Transcription 1© Original plan copyright Hamilton Trust, who give permission for it to be adapted as wished by individual users. Y5/6 Sum F 1B Classic fiction

Excerpts from William the Intruder showing brackets, dashes or commas used to indicate parenthesis or mark boundaries

between clauses

William retired with dignity to the window and listened, with interest unabated, to the rest of the conversation.

I know I can’t marry yet – not while I’m still at college – but I could get to know her.

She walked up the drive, looking neither to right nor left, till a slight movement in the bushes arrested her attention.

From one point the drawing-room window could be seen, and there the anxious Robert stood, pale with anxiety, stiff and upright in his newly creased trousers (well turned up to show the new blue socks), his soulful eyes fixed steadfastly on the bend in the drive round which the beloved should come.

She’s the most beautiful girl I’ve ever met in all my life and you – my own mother – treat her like this.

Robert, anguished and overpowered, rose slowly.

He sent his white flannels (which were perfectly clean) to the laundry with a note attached, hinting darkly at legal proceedings if they were not sent back, spotless, by Thursday morning.

He was presented with a tin of toffee (given not without ulterior motive) by William.

When she returned, William had gone and Robert was standing by the window, his face pale with suspense, and a Napoleonic frown on his brow.

A curious figure was cycling along the road – a figure with a blackened face and a few drooping feathers on its head, and a doormat flying in the wind.

Week 1 Thursday Grammar 1© Original plan copyright Hamilton Trust, who give permission for it to be adapted as wished by individual users. Y5/6 Sum F 1B Classic fiction

Sentences with missing punctuation taken from William and the School Report

Add the punctuation indicated in the brackets to these sentences.

It would do William said the headmaster enthusiastically all the good in the world.(2 commas)

If it’s a better one than it usually is of course you needn’t have holiday coaching.(2 commas)

The weeks of the holidays stretched an arid desert before him.(2 dashes)

Disregarding in common with the whole school the head-master’s injunction to give the report to his parents without looking at it first he had read it apprehensively in the cloakroom and it had justified his blackest fears.(2 brackets, 1 comma)

To make things worse an aunt of his father’s whom William had not seen for several years was coming over for the day and William considered that his family were always more difficult to deal with when there were visitors.(2 commas, 2 brackets)

They were in reality only a very short distance from his home.(2 commas)

“With with no food?” said Aunt Augusta faintly.(1 dash)

The path led as William had known it would round a corner and immediately into the main road.(2 commas)

William not knowing what else to do heaved a great sigh.(2 commas)


Sentences with missing punctuation taken from William and the School Report

Add the punctuation indicated in the brackets to these sentences.

It would do William, said the headmaster enthusiastically, all the good in the world.(2 commas)

If it’s a better one than it usually is, of course, you needn’t have holiday coaching.(2 commas)

The weeks of the holidays stretched – an arid desert – before him.(2 dashes)

Disregarding (in common with the whole school) the head-master’s injunction to give the report to his parents without looking at it first, he had read it apprehensively in the cloakroom and it had justified his blackest fears.(2 brackets, 1 comma)

To make things worse, an aunt of his father’s (whom William had not seen for several years) was coming over for the day, and William considered that his family were always more difficult to deal with when there were visitors.(2 commas, 2 brackets)

They were, in reality, only a very short distance from his home.(2 commas)

“With – with no food?” said Aunt Augusta faintly.(1 dash)

The path led, as William had known it would, round a corner and immediately into the main road.(2 commas)

William, not knowing what else to do, heaved a great sigh.(2 commas)


Characters in William the Intruder

William

Robert (his older brother)

Ethel (his sister)

Mrs Brown (his mother)

Miss Cannon (a young lady that Robert admires)

Mrs Clive (with whom Miss Cannon is staying)

The Brown’s cook

Week 1 Wednesday Comprehension 3© Original plan copyright Hamilton Trust, who give permission for it to be adapted as wished by individual users. Y5/6 Sum F 1B Classic fiction

Differentiated spellings

interrupt nuisance mischievousinterfere exaggerate disastrousbruise curiosity conscienceawkward embarrass nuisancedetermined bruise exaggerateaggressive awkward curiositydesperate desperate embarrassfrequently frequently awkwardharass aggressive bruiseindividual harass desperate

individual harasshindrance controversy

hindrancecriticise

interrupt nuisance mischievousinterfere exaggerate disastrousbruise curiosity conscienceawkward embarrass nuisancedetermined bruise exaggerateaggressive awkward curiositydesperate desperate embarrassfrequently frequently awkwardharass aggressive bruiseindividual harass desperate

individual harasshindrance controversy

hindrancecriticise

Week 2 Monday Word reading Transcription 2© Original plan copyright Hamilton Trust, who give permission for it to be adapted as wished by individual users. Y5/6 Sum F 1B Classic fiction

The Leopard Hunter by Richmal Crompton Mr Falkner had been staying at the Browns’ house for a very long time. He had written to Mr Brown to remind him of the fact that they had been at school together and to ask if he might pay him a short visit. Mr Falkner was like that. Also his idea of a short visit was not Mr Brown’s. Not that Mr Falkner needed much entertaining. He entertained himself. He talked. William had never met anyone who talked quite as much as his father’s guest. Mr Falkner talked perpetually, and the subject of all his conversation was Mr Falkner. Mr Falkner was a never ending source of interest to Mr Falkner. He talked about his exalted social position, his many and varied talents, his marvellous exploits, his ingenuity, his aristocratic friends. “Oh, yes, the Duke and I are the greatest of pals. Always have been. The way the man pesters me to go and stay with him! But all my friends are the same. There’s the Honourable Percy Wakefield – you’ve heard of him, of course? – I ran into him again last week. He simply wouldn’t take ‘No’. I managed to put him off at last. Quite a nuisance, these people. Simply won’t let one alone. Politeness prevented Mr Brown from remarking that he did not grudge Mr Falkner to the Duke or to the Honourable Percy. Instead, Mr Brown sat, silent and oppressed, trying to read the evening paper which lay carelessly on the arm of his chair and to look as if he weren’t doing so. And Mr Falkner talked on. Mr Falkner was small and rather stout, with a round face, a small blighted moustache, a glassy stare and a very squeaky voice. During term time Mr Falkner did not trouble William much. William merely watched him curiously in his brief respites from school. William practised diligently and acquired a very good imitation of Mr Falkner’s squeaky voice and glassy stare. He practised them alone every evening in his bedroom. At meals he rather welcomed the presence of Mr Falkner than otherwise. Mr Falkner’s accounts of his varied exploits of dauntless bravery and dazzling cleverness seemed to induce in William’s family a certain apathy of hopelessness which William thought a very proper attitude on the part of the family. No one told him to go and wash his hands and brush his hair again. No one made sarcastic remarks about his table manners. They simply had not the spirit. In fact, such is the humanising effect of a common misfortune, they almost felt drawn to him. They had thought that no family could be afflicted © Original plan copyright Hamilton Trust, who give permission for it to be adapted as wished by individual users. Y5/6 Sum F 1B Classic fiction

with an affliction worse than William. They had discovered their mistake. They had discovered Mr Falkner . . . Then came the end of term. The end of term was a time of mixed feelings for William. On the one hand, there was the glorious prospect of the holidays. On the other hand, there was his report. William’s best friends could not assert that he was intellectual or industrious. He was a daring and capable leader. He was, at different times and in different moods, robber chief, pirate, Red Indian, explorer, castaway, desperado – but he was not at any time, or in any mood, a student. William’s attitude towards the question was one of humility and self-effacement. He’d do without them. There were enough swots in the world without him. So there was a certain monotony about William’s reports. Masters who had a delicate shrinking from the crude and brutal truth wrote, ‘Fair’. Those who had the courage of their convictions wrote, ‘Poor’. The mathematical master, who was very literal, wrote, ‘Uniformly bad’. The horror and disgust of William’s father at these statements was generally as simulated as William’s penitence. They knew their respective roles and played them, but they had gone through the scene too many times to be able to put much spirit into the parts. But this time Mr Falkner was there. Before Mr Brown could begin his set speech expressive of horror and disgust, he took the paper from him and began to comment on it squeakily. “By Jove, very different from the things I used to get. ‘Excellent’ and all that sort of thing all over them. Some of them simply couldn’t say enough. ‘Remarkable talent’ and ‘Very industrious’ and ‘Splendid work’, and all that sort of thing. I remember the headmaster saying to my father one speech day, ‘Brilliant boy of yours, that!’ Very keen-sighted man he was, too. Never made a mistake. I believe I was a great favourite at school. I’ve no doubt I’m still remembered there.” “No, neither have I,” said Mr Brown. “Yes,” bleated Mr Falkner, “it’s extraordinary how anyone at all above the average makes himself felt through life. So often I find that people who’ve only met me once remember me when I’ve quite forgotten them.” Again Mr Brown had no doubt of it.

Week 2 Tuesday Comprehension 5© Original plan copyright Hamilton Trust, who give permission for it to be adapted as wished by individual users. Y5/6 Sum F 1B Classic fiction

Dialogue Excerpts from The Leopard Hunter

“Ha!” said Mr Falkner. “These your friends, Willy? They’re going to join us for the morning? Very well, little boys. Come along with us quietly. And what are we all going to do this morning, eh? I propose a nice little walk along the road, and you can all listen to what I’m telling Willy about the Arum or Cuckoo Pint. Notice, as I said the spathe and the spadix and the stamens. Don’t drag your toes in the dust, little boy. Think of your kind father who pays for them. And don’t whisper to each other when I’m talking. It’s not polite; I like my little friends to be polite. Now, would you like me to tell you about the habits of the busy little ant?”

“Nothin’ to do with me,” said William. “I din’ make him. I din’ want him. You’d think you’d be sorry for me. You’ve only had him a mornin’. He’s stayin’ with us.”

“Oh, yes,” said Mr Falkner carelessly, “I got the brute. Found him in your garden, too. Came upon him face to face in the path. He gathered to spring. I just stood and looked at him. Simply looked. He turned and began to slink away. Then I raised me rifle and fired – just as I told you. Perfectly simple with a sportsman of my calibre. Lucky it was I who met him. You’ll find the body somewhere in the garden.”

William, wearing his most sphinx-like expression, stepped forward.“I thought it smelt a bit kind of stuffy, an’ so I brought it out here las’ night to be in the fresh air a bit, like what it is in spring cleanin’s an’ that.”

William turned his inscrutable countenance to him.“I’ ‘fraid p’raps it was me you heard,” he said. “I can’t sleep, so I got up an’ jus’ played about the garden a bit – jus’ to make me sleep better – fresh air an’ exercise like what they say makes you sleep – I was playin’ mos’ly round the summer-house –”

The gardener came past. “Did you hear anything about a leopard escaping from the circus at Offord?” said Mr Brown to him.“There ain’t no circus at Offord,” replied the gardener gloomily as he passed on. “There ain’t no circus anywhere round here.”

“What sort’ve a noise did you make?” Ginger was saying as he puffed out imaginary smoke from his chocolate cigar.

Week 2 Tuesday Grammar 2


Informal Sentences to Convert

From William and the School Report:William said casually, “I’m afraid we’re lost. We must’ve took the wrong turning. This wood goes on for miles an’ miles. People’ve sometimes been lost for days.”

We aren’t allowed to look at them,” said William unctuously. “They always tells us to take them straight home to our parents without looking at them.”

“Well . . . I – I dunno,” William said self-consciously.

“We aren’t allowed to look at ‘em,” William said virtuously. “He tells us to bring ‘em home without lookin’ at ‘em.”

From William the Intruder:“You better come quiet to my wigwam an’ see,” said Red Hand darkly.

“That was Red Indian what I was talkin’ then,” William explained in his ordinary voice.

“I gotter fire round here,” said William proudly.

“I’ll get you some feathers,” he said obligingly. “You oughter have feathers, too.”

“I gotter garden. I’ve got Virginia Stock growin’ all over it. It grows up in no time. An’ must’erd ‘n cress grows in no time, too. I like things what grow quick, don’t you? You get tired of waiting for the other sorts, don’t you?”

From The Leopard Hunter:“Nothin’ to do with me,” said William. I din’ make him. I din’ want him. You’d think you’d be sorry for me. You’ve only had him a mornin’. He’s stayin’ with us.”

“I’ ‘fraid p’raps it was me you heard,” William said. “I can’t sleep, so I got up an’ jus’ played about the garden a bit – jus’ to make me sleep – fresh air an’ exercise like what they say makes you sleep – I was playin’ mos’ly round the summer-house –”

“There ain’t no circus at Offord,” replied the gardener gloomily as he passed on. “There ain’t no circus anywheres round here.”

“He’s not quite sure,” said William, in the voice of one repeating a lesson. “He’s forgot. He thinks p’raps it was someone in the village.”

William rose. “You come round to our summer-house an’ I’ll show you. Ginger be me growlin’ an’ I’ll be him carryin’ on. Come along.”Week 2 Tuesday Grammar 3


The Perfect Form of Verbs

The perfect form of a verb usually brings the reader’s attention to the consequences of a prior (previous) event; e.g. he has gone to deliver the bottles implies that he is still away when we arrive, in contrast with he went to deliver the bottles, which happened sometime in the past before we arrive. He had gone to deliver the bottles takes a past time point, when we arrived as its reference point.

The perfect: Uses the verb ‘has’ or ‘have’ plus the past participle, (walked, taken). This can be

present perfect (he has walked there many times) or past perfect (he had walked there many times).

The verb ‘to have’ can also be combined with the progressive or continuous form of the verb, using a present participle, e.g. he has been walking there many times.

Identify the perfect form of the verb in each sentence:

Mr Falkner had been staying at the Browns’ house for a very long time. He had written to Mr Brown to remind him of the fact that they had been at school together and to ask if he might pay him a short visit.

They had thought that no family could be afflicted with an affliction worse than William.

They had discovered their mistake.

They had meant to go to the old barn where they generally played.

The leopard’s (has) escaped from the circus at Offord.

He had barked his shins.

He has forgotten.

He had found a train just going up to Town, and he had accompanied it.

He had left a note to say that he had been called suddenly to Town and would they kindly send his things after him.

Week 2 Wednesday Grammar 3


The Subjective Form of Verbs

If All the World were Paper

If all the world were paper,And all the sea were inke;And all the trees were bread and cheese,What should we do for drinke?

Anon

Examples of Sentences using the Subjunctive Form:

Underline the subjunctive form in each sentence. The first two are done for you.

I suggest that he study tonight.

If James were team captain, things would be much better.

The school requires that all pupils be honest.

We asked that it be done yesterday.

I wish that he were here now.

It is important that he be here on time.

God save the Queen!

Long live the King!

If I were you I would put that away.

We have voted that the team manager resign.

As it were.

If need be.

If that is final, so be it.

Ask chn to write several sentences using the subjunctive. They could begin, ‘If I were you… ‘ and be written as if they were Violet Elizabeth or William.

Week 2 Thursday Grammar 4


Stage directions

Parrots for Ethel.

Stage directions for BBC version of this story

Scene 1: William and the outlaws are walking along the lane.Stage direction 1:

The story starts with the three boys walking along together. William is looking really annoyed. He is wearing a truculent expression. As the boys are walking they should be pushing each other.

Scene 2: Ethel and her two admirersStage direction 2:

The two brothers should be wearing expressions of the utmost devotion as they look at Ethel.

Scene 3: The three outlaws sitting beside the fenceStage direction 3:

When the boys are sitting beside the fence, they should all be wearing ‘utterly fed up’ expressions. Their conversation should have a slightly whining quality…

Scene 4: Preparing for the slide showStage direction 2:

In William’s home, William should still be wearing the truculent expression until his brother tells him off when he should look rather happier.

Scene 5: The slide showStage direction 2:

Watching the slide show, William’s dad should be looking rather fed up, William is looking quite interested, his mother is looking rather happy and interested. Robert should be looking fed up and bored and rather sad….

Scene 6: Ethel and her two admirersStage direction 6:

The two boys walking with Ethel should look alternatively adoring (at Ethel) and rather anxious and cross (when competing with each other…)



Excerpt from A Question of Grammar

Divide the start of the story into scenesWrite stage directions for the actors in each sceneSee how far you can get!

It was raining. It had been raining all morning. William was intensely bored with his family. “What can I do?” he demanded of his father for the tenth time.“Nothing!” said his father fiercely from behind his newspaper.William followed his mother into the kitchen. “What can I do?” he said plaintively.“Couldn’t you just sit quietly?” suggested his mother. “That’s not doin’ anything,” William said.“I could sit quietly all day,” he went on aggressively, “if I wanted.”“But you never do.”“No, ‘cause there wouldn’t be any sense in it, would there?” "Couldn't you read or draw or something?""No, that's lessons. That's not doin' anything!""I could teach you to knit if you like."With one crushing glance William left her.

He went to the drawing-room, where his sister Ethel was knitting ajumper and talking to a friend."And I heard her say to him----" she was saying. She broke off with thesigh of a patient martyr as William came in. He sat down and glared ather. She exchanged a glance of resigned exasperation with her friend."What are you doing, William?" said the friend sweetly."Nothin'," said William with a scowl."Shut the door after you when you go out, won't you, William?" saidEthel equally sweetly.

William at that insult rose with dignity and went to the door. At thedoor he turned."I wun't stay here now," he said with slow contempt, "not even if--evenif--even if," he paused to consider the most remote contingency, "noteven if you wanted me," he said at last emphatically.He shut the door behind him and his expression relaxed into a sardonicsmile."I bet they feel _small_!" he said to the umbrella-stand.



He went to the library, where his seventeen-year-old brother Robert wasshowing off his new rifle to a friend."You see----" he was saying, then, catching sight of William's faceround the door, "Oh, get out!"William got out.

He returned to his mother in the kitchen with a still more jaundicedview of life. It was still raining. His mother was looking at thetradesmen's books."Can I go out?" he said gloomily."No, of course not. It's pouring.""I don't mind rain.""Don't be silly."William considered that few boys in the whole world were handicapped bymore unsympathetic parents than he."Why," he said pathetically, "have they got friends in an' me not?""I suppose you didn't think of asking anyone," she said calmly."Well, can I have someone now?""No, it's too late," said Mrs. Brown, raising her head from thebutcher's book and murmuring "ten and elevenpence" to herself."Well, when can I?"She raised a harassed face."William, do be quiet! Any time, if you ask. Eighteen and twopence.""Can I have lots?""Oh, go and ask your father."William went out.

He returned to the dining-room, where his father was still reading apaper. The sigh with which his father greeted his entrance was not oneof relief."If you've come to ask questions----" he began threateningly."I haven't," said William quickly. "Father, when you're all away onSaturday, can I have a party?""No, of course not," said his father irritably. "Can't you _do_something?"William, goaded to desperation, burst into a flood of eloquence."The sort of things I want to do they don't want me to do an' the sortof things I don't want to do they want me to do. Mother said to knit._Knit!_"His scorn and fury were indescribable. His father looked out of thewindow."Thank Heaven, it's stopped raining! Go out!"William went out. Week 3 Monday Comprehension 8© Original plan copyright Hamilton Trust, who give permission for it to be adapted as wished by individual users. Y5/6 Sum F 1B Classic fiction

There were some quite interesting things to do outside. In the roadthere were puddles, and the sensation of walking through a puddle, asevery boy knows, is a very pleasant one. The hedges, when shaken, sentquite a shower bath upon the shaker, which also is a pleasant sensation.The ditch was full and there was the thrill of seeing how often onecould jump across it without going in. One went in more often than not.It is also fascinating to walk in mud, scraping it along with one'sboots. William's spirits rose, but he could not shake off the idea ofthe party. Quite suddenly he wanted to have a party and he wanted tohave it on Saturday. His family would be away on Saturday. They weregoing to spend the day with an aunt. Aunts rarely included William intheir invitation.

He came home wet and dirty and cheerful. He approached his fatherwarily."Did you say I could have a party, father?" he said casually."_No_, I did _not_," said Mr. Brown firmly.William let the matter rest for the present.



Features of Playscripts

Cast list at start (often in order of importance or of appearance on stage)Could include a description of costume & appearanceCould include an explanation of relationship to other charactersNames often give a clue to character

Props may be listed

NarratorGives background informationSets the sceneExplains what is happening

Events take place step by step

Describe the setting

Speakers’ names on left (often followed by a colon)

No speech marks (or need to use ‘said’ etc.)

New line for each new speech

Acts and scenes, not chaptersNew place or new time

Stage directions in brackets and often in italicsUse adverbsUse powerful verbs

Strong punctuation

Other details like lighting or special effects may be included

Week 3 Tuesday Comprehension 9/ Composition 2


Three Stars and a Wish!

Each child finds a partner

The partner reads the short story

The partner identifies three good features of the short story – 3 STARS!!

The partner then has 1 WISH for an improvement to be made!

Week 3 Friday Composition 5


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