English for years 5 and 6: Week beginning: March 1 st 2021

Date: Monday 1 st March 2021 ZOOM lesson Can I write a limerick?

Mild: WRITE: Use the template to create your own limerick by filling in the blanks.

Spicy: WRITE: Follow the steps to create your own limerick. Be ambitious.

Hot: WRITE: Create your own limerick: Play with the words, use homophones or idioms or create laughter or sadness.

Here is a link to the limerick song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-rN3DGMCsE

Examples of limericks to read or learn:

The fabulous Wizard of Oz

Retired from the business becoz,

What with up-to-date science,

To most of his clients

He wasn’t the wiz that he woz.

There was a Young Lady of Norway,

Who causally sat in a doorway;

When the door squeezed her flat,

She exclaimed, “What of that?”

This courageous Young Lady of Norway.

Edward Lear

There was an old man from Vancouver,

Whose wife got stuck in the Hoover.

He said, “There’s some doubt

If she’s more in than out

But whichever it is, I can’t move her.”

How to write a limerick:

A canner, exceedingly canny,

One morning remarked to his granny,

“A canner can can

Anything that he can;

But a canner can’t can a can, can he?”

There was a young fellow named Weir,

Who hadn’t an atom of fear.

He indulged a desire

To touch a live wire.

(Almost any last line will do here).

An incompetent sailor named Scott

Tried crossing the Channel by yacht.

A storm blew him off course,

So he tapped out in Morse:

…_ _ _ …

1. Mind map char a cter s o r animals . Character Animal

Examples: A boy named JackThe Queen of HeartsA young woman named Sue

Examples: A lazy house catClumsy old monkeyBig, Grumpy Bulldog

2. Next, to w ri te the fir s t line , decide where they are from or end with their name/animal type. This will form the rhyme for 3 lines! Your first line needs to be between 8-10 syllables.

Places that rhyme well Names that rhyme wellWalesPeruSpain

JackSuecatdog

Examples:

There was a young lady of Spain (8 syllables)

Said a foolish householder from Wales (10 syllables)

3. Find words that rhyme with your first line. This will help you to write lines 2 and 5.

Kate mate, fate, late, hate, rate, great, debate, state, collaborate, separate,

4. Write your second line. Use the words you have collected in step 3 to help form your sentence. You might want to use a relative pronoun within your second line. E.g. who, where, when…Try to keep the number of syllables the same as your first line (between 8 and 10). Examples

Who went to a fancy dress ball (8 syllables)

Who was so exceedingly neat (8 syllables)

Whose body was lighter than cork (8 syllables)

With a pain in his stomach did moan (9 syllables)

5. Wr i te lines 3 and 4. These lines are shorter (approx 6 syllables) and have their own rhyme. Examples:

When he finished his work

He remarked with a smirk

Half-way round the course,

“That’s enough!” said the horse

“I’m Thor!” he cried,

And the mouse replied,

There once was a gnu in the zoo (9 syllables)

A bow-legged policeman from Kew (8 syllables)

6. Finish yo u r last line. It needs to rhyme with lines 1 and 2 and have 8-10 syllables depending on what you have written before. They are often surprising and sometimes silly.Examples

And when he awoke, he was dead.

Was collected in seventeen pails.

She slipped through the straw and fell in.

And now she is silent- rejoice!

Quick recap:

A limerick’s cleverly versed-

The second line rhymes with the first:

The third one is short,

The fourth’s the same sort,

And the last line is often the worst.

by

John Irwin

Mild: Use a template to write your limerick with.

Date: Tuesday 2 nd March 2021 Can I write a clerihew?

Mild: WRITE: Think of a person or character for your clerihew. AABB rhyme

Only Mild: Use the template.

Spicy: WRITE: As mild. Use information about that person in your poem.

Hot: WRITE: As mild and spicy. Write a group of clerihews like Roger McGough (see below).

Watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRRUUhyB7KM A Clerihew is a four-line comic verse of two rhyming couplets (AA BB rhyme). The lines can be any length but the first involves the person being written about. Invented by E. Clerihew Bentley, who died in 1956.

Edmund

Edmund Clerihew Bentley

Invented the type of poem you are reading presently

Two comic rhyming couplets about a person where the length isn’t fixed

Then he died in nineteen fifty-six.

By Paul Cookson

Writing a Clerihew

Neil Armstrong

Wasn’t on the moon for long.

But in the time he left behind

A giant footprint for mankind.

By John Foster

ClerihewsTo vaguely amuseAnd banish the bluesWriting clerihewsI would choose.Mr MerryhewWould ferry youAcross the Thames at BrayOn a tea tray.Mr BlandOn the other handFelt safer on land.This I can well understand.A pirate known as 'Lucky' FrankCaught robbing the captain's piggy bankWas about to walk the plankWhen the ship sank.By Roger McGough

Mind Map : Choose a person or character to write a Clerihew about.

Write down their name, words that rhyme with their name, facts about them and any other interesting information. Don’t spend too long on this- Remember you are only writing 4 lines...

James HoggKept a dog,But, being a shepherdHe did not keep a leopard.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Mild template

Date: Wednesday 3 rd March 2021 Zoom Can I write definitions for unusual words?

Mild: Write your 3 definitions in the chart in full sentences. What does the word mean? Use capital letters and full stops.

Spicy: Write 5 definitions using relative pronouns: which, that, where, when. Include details.

Be creative!

Hot: Write the at least 5 definitions using a range of relative pronouns and interesting details about your word. What word class is it? Could it be used in two different ways and have two meanings? E.g. a noun and an adjective.

You can watch Benedict Cumberbatch’s reading of The Jabberwocky again here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_Um3787fSY

You can make up the definitions for these words. There is no wrong answer.

Relative pronouns: who, that, which, whose, whom, where, whenChoose from these words or any others made up by Lewis Carroll in the poem: brillig slithy toves mome raths vorpalwhiffling beamish frumious galumphinggyre gimble Bandersnatch frabjous

Mild Template

Word What does the word mean? (definition)

Date: Thursday 4 th March 2021

Can I make a book and publish my work?

https://www.worldbookday.com

Can I make a book and publish my work?

Mild:

Make a book and publish at least two of your poems. Illustrate your work.

Spicy:

Make a book and publish your poems and illustrate your work.

Hot: As Spicy

Could you improve your poems?

We would like you to make your own book that you can publish your poems in.

Below are some ideas for different books. You do not have to make them all! Choose one or a design of your own.

The lady on this clip below explains how to make a book with just pieces of paper, glue and scissors:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xebqtx0iMRE

Alternatively, if you are feeling very creative have a go at making one of these books:

Theatre Book

Step one

Step two

Step three

Step four

Step five

Or can you research and come up with your own design?

Look at the chilli slips for your task. Write in best (publish) all or some of your favourite poems written over the last few weeks in your new book. Illustrate your poems.

We look forward to seeing your books.

Enjoy!

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