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This will form the learning for English over the next two weeks 1

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The Book Of MeDay 1

With thanks to the British Library and Joanna Brown https://www.bl.uk/childrens-books/activities/the-book-of-me

© Planet Omar: Accidental Trouble Magnet by Zanib Mian

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https://www.bl.uk/childrens-books/activities/the-book-of-me



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The Book Of MeWhat if you were the main character in a story? What would the world of your story look like? What would happen?

Follow the steps on these slides to create an illustrated story in which you are the main character. This will be a story about you, your family, friends and community that only YOU can write!

Here‛s some advice from Zanib Mian, author of the Planet Omar series:"Tell the stories that you have lived. People want to read them! You don‛t have to write the kinds of stories that are already out there. Be you, in life and in your writing, and that‛s what people will love."

You‛ll learn about all of the stages behind creating a story: from coming up with ideas and making plans, to illustrating, drafting and writing up your final story.



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You will need:A mirror

Pens, pencils and paperYour imagination!

Take a look at some of the stories on the next page.

• Make a mind-map of all the different kinds of characters you meet. Which characters do you feel drawn to and why? Do any remind you of people you know?

• What do you notice about the settings in these stories?

• What kinds of events do you find in these stories?



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Where, or who, is your home and family?

This can feel like a very big question. Sometimes, we might answer with the country where we were born, such as Scotland, Jamaica, China or Turkey. Sometimes, it might be the country where our parents were born or even a mixture of both. Perhaps we feel we belong to a city instead. Are you a Londoner, for example ?

Sometimes, the place where we feel we really belong is in a family. But what is a family? For hundreds of years, since some of the very first books for children were created, authors and illustrators have been exploring this question in all kinds of different ways. Let‛s take a look.

https://www.bl.uk/childrens-books/articles/home-family-and-belonging-in-childrens-books

Where do you belong?

Copy and paste this link into your search bar to read some stories.If you can't use the computer, look at or think about

some of the stories about children and families that you have already read or heard.




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All families are differentFamilies have always come in different shapes and sizes. Eg five siblings in Edith Nesbit‛s Five Children and It go on many adventures together, whilst in Frances Hodgson Burnett‛s A Little Princess, Sara lives with just her father. After her father dies, Sara has a very difficult time, but there‛s a happy ending when she is adopted, showing that loving families don‛t have to be related by blood.

Many books celebrate the fact that families can be very different. In Errol‛s Garden (Gillian Hibbs, 2018), all the different types of families come together as one big family to create a garden on the roof of a tower block. There‛s even a musician to sing to the people and plants!



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When it‛s hard to find a place where you belongChildren‛s books can also help us think about what it‛s like when you don‛t belong. The stories can sometimes make us feel angry or upset for the characters. Tracy Beaker is the tough, funny hero of three books. We first meet her in The Story of Tracy Beaker (1991), when she lives in a children‛s home and dreams about a perfect life with her glamorous mum. We want her to find her perfect family. It comes in the shape of Cam, who certainly wasn‛t the family that Tracy had imagined. Writer Jacqueline Wilson said that she spent a lot of time when she was little imagining different types of families – and then wrote books about many of them.

Illustrations copyright © Nick Sharratt



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Azzi, in Azzi in Between (Sarah Garland, 2013), has to leave the country she knows as home when her family flee from war. They are forced to seek refuge in a place where everything is so different from what she has known, but slowly she finds ways to belong. Azzi brings her favourite beans from her own country and shows her new schoolmates how to grow them.

The stories about another famous immigrant, Paddington Bear, also show how new people can enrich families and communities. When Paddington arrives in London in search of a new home, he is adopted by the Brown family and befriended by Mr Gruber and many others. Their kindness is important to Paddington – and their own lives are much more interesting because of him!



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All about me

First, you‛re going to create the main character in your story – that‛s you!

Nearly all writers start by planning out their main character. Often there will be illustrations to really bring the character to life. Which styles do you like?

Task 1: Look in a mirror and sketch your self-portrait.

This could be just your head and shoulders, or your whole body.

Use the portraits for inspiration!



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Task 2: What makes you unique? Make notes around your self-portrait to plan your main character more fully.Use headings to build up a picture of the character of ‘you‛! e.g. appearance, skills, hobbies, language(s) I speak, things I say, favourite foods, favourite memory, things that make me laugh... You can get creative with adjectives and similes, too e.g. My hair is as wavy as the sea.

I like riding my bike

and eating spaghetti

I can speak Turkishand play the guitar



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My worldNext, you‛ll work on the world of your story.

Task 3: Draw pictures and make notes about the place you call home. (You could do this as a collage!)

What makes it feel like ‘home‛?

Use your senses: How does it looks? How does it sound? What does it feel like to be there?

Lucy and Tom's Day © Shirley Hughes



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Task 4: Now add in members of your family or people close to you.

Who and where else is important?

Think about people and places from your wider community: for example, school, neighbours, clubs, places of worship.

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Task 5: Now for a tricky part! Choose two or three of these people to join you as characters in your story.

Why did you pick them?

Write character notes about each one to build a full picture of the world of your story.

Plays football

and the violin

The kindest person I know

© Planet Omar: Accidental Trouble Magnet by Zanib Mian



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My story

Now, you‛ll develop the plot.It could be the story of an ordinary day that shows us what is unique and special about you. Or, it could be the story of a special day in your life.

Task 6: Find inspiration by reading some of the stories shown here.

Make a list of the main event in each story, such as dancing at carnival, moving to a new country,house or school, visiting the hospital, a special party,visiting relatives etc.

What might your main event be in your story?


Copy and paste this link into your search bar to readsome stories. If you can't use the computer, look at or think about some of the stories about children and families that you have already read or heard.

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Nini at Carnival © Errol Lloyd.




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Errol’s Garden. Reproduced by kind permission of Child's Play (International) Ltd.© 2018 Gillian Hibbs. First published 2018 by Child's Play.

Here is one of the stories, Errol's Garden, by Gillian Hibbs.• Who are the main characters?

• What is the main event?



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Week 5This week you will be continuing your 'Book of Me'You can present it any way you wish, you can make a miniature book like you did previously to write it in, or you can make a larger version of this. You can follow these links to help you make different types of books:

https://www.worldbookday.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Primary-Make-and-Do-Make-Your-Own-Books-KS2.pdf

https://www.mebooks.co/

You can login to purple mash to make your own e-book or there are plenty of apps like the one below (please get your parents permission first and use only free apps)

http://www.makingbooks.com/freeprojects.shtml

https://www.worldbookday.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/primary-make-and-do-make-your-own-books-ks2.pdf

https://www.mebooks.co/

http://www.makingbooks.com/freeprojects.shtml



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Task 7: Make a story plan to show what happens at the beginning, middle and end of your story.

Think carefully about how the main character might feel before, during and after the main event.

Add these notes to the plan: remember to ‘show‛ through the character‛s speech and behaviour, rather than ‘tell‛.

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Hospital Day © Series editor: Leila Berg. Story: Leila Berg. Artwork: Shirley Hughes



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Task 8: Now it‛s over to you: you‛re ready to write and illustrate your own ‘Book of Me‛!

What details will you add to make it unique to you?

We can't wait to read them or hear you reading them out loud on Seesaw.

Days 5 and 6

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