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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Wednesday: Pictures for inspiration.
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Thursday and Friday sick sentences:
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Thursday and Friday: Story starter.
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