Survival: from stones to steel!

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Thursday 21st May 2020 Session 1

35 Mins

Reading comprehension

Mixed VIPERS questions Bad Beginnings – Lemony Snicket – Ch 9

Session 2

45 Mins

Maths

with Mr Hudson

Session 3

30 Mins

Writing

with Mr Hudson

Session 1

1 Hour

Connected Currciulum

Design and Technology Focus

Session 1 Subject: Reading Comprehension – Mixed VIPERS questions – Bad Beginnings – Lemony Snicket – Ch 9. Approx. Time: 15 Mins Reading and 20 Mins Questions Recording: Please complete in your exercise books in full sentences or click the link/scan the QR code below to respond using Microsoft Office forms electronically. https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=MCmKOv-hO0aOCXKSzfX--aiMGV2khuFMvQCKxGfj-uhUN0xIUERHSDFKWjBQUVlSNUEyU1dDVzJNRy4u

What to do first: Read Chapter 9 of Bad Beginnings – Lemony Snicket

CHAPTERNine

“Yes,” Count Olaf continued, “it certainly isstrange to find a child missing. And one sosmall, and helpless.”

“Where’s Sunny?” Violet cried. “Whathave you done with her?”

Count Olaf continued to speak as if he hadnot heard Violet. “But then again, one seesstrange things every day. In fact, if you twoorphans follow me out to the backyard, Ithink

we will all see something rather unusual.”The Baudelaire children didn’t say any-

thing, but followed Count Olaf through thehouse and out the back door. Violet lookedaround the small, scraggly yard, in whichshe had not been since she and Klaus hadbeen forced to chop wood. The pile of logsthey had made was still lying there un-touched, as if Count Olaf had merely madethem chop logs for his own amusement,rather than for any purpose. Violet shivered,still in her nightgown, but as she gazed hereand there she saw nothing unusual.

“You’re not looking in the right place,”Count Olaf said. “For children who read somuch, you two are remarkably unintelligent.”

Violet looked over in the direction of CountOlaf, but could not meet his eyes. The eyeson his face, that is. She was staring at his feet,and could see the tattooed eye that had beenwatching the Baudelaire orphans since theirtroubles had begun. Then her eyes traveledup Count Olaf’s lean, shabbily dressed body,and she saw

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that he was pointing up with one scrawnyhand. She followed his gesture and foundherself looking at the forbidden tower. It wasmade of dirty stone, with only one lone win-dow, and just barely visible in the windowwas what looked like a birdcage.

“Oh no,” Klaus said in a small, scaredvoice, and Violet looked again. It was a bird-cage, dangling from the tower window likea flag in the wind, but inside the birdcage shecould see a small and frightened Sunny.When Violet looked closely, she could seethere was a large piece of tape across hersister’s mouth, and ropes around her body.She was utterly trapped.

“Let her go!” Violet said to Count Olaf.“She has done nothing to you! She is an in-fant!”

“Well, now,” Count Olaf said, sitting on astump. “If you really want me to let her go,I will. But surely even a stupid brat like youmight realize that if I let her go—or, moreaccurately, if I ask my comrade to let hergo—poor little Sunny might not survive thefall down to

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the ground. That’s a thirty-foot tower, whichis a very long way for a very little person tofall, even when she’s inside a cage. But if youinsist—”

“No!” Klaus cried. “Don’t!”Violet looked into Count Olaf’s eyes, and

then at the small parcel that was her sister,hanging from the top of the tower and mov-ing slowly in the breeze. She pictured Sunnytoppling from the tower and onto the ground,pictured her sister’s last thoughts being onesof sheer terror. “Please,” she said to Olaf,feeling tears in her eyes. “She’s just a baby.We’ll do anything, anything. Just don’t harmher.”

“Anything?” Count Olaf asked, his eyebrowrising. He leaned in toward Violet and gazedinto her eyes. “Anything? Would you, for in-stance, consider marrying me during tomor-row night’s performance?”

Violet stared at him. She had an odd feel-ing in her stomach, as if she were the one be-ing thrown from a great height. The reallyfrightening thing about Olaf, she realized,was that he

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was very smart after all. He wasn’t merelyan unsavory drunken brute, but an unsavory,clever drunken brute.

“While you were busy reading books andmaking accusations,” Count Olaf said, “I hadone of my quietest, sneakiest assistants skulkinto your bedroom and steal little Sunnyaway. She is perfectly safe, for now. But Iconsider her to be a stick behind a stubbornmule.”

“Our sister is not a stick,” Klaus said.“A stubborn mule,” Count Olaf explained,

“does not move in the direction its ownerwants it to. In that way, it is like you children,who insist on mucking up my plans. Anyanimal owner will tell you that a stubbornmule will move in the proper direction ifthere is a carrot in front of it, and a stick be-hind it. It will move toward the carrot, be-cause it wants the reward of food, and awayfrom the stick, because it does not want thepunishment of pain. Likewise, you will dowhat I say, to avoid the punishment of theloss of your sister, and because you want

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the reward of surviving this experience. Now,Violet, let me ask you again: will you marryme?”

Violet swallowed, and looked down atCount Olaf’s tattoo. She could not bring her-self to answer.

“Come now,” Count Olaf said, his voicefaking—a word which here means “feign-ing”—kindness. He reached out a hand andstroked Violet’s hair. “Would it be so terribleto be my bride, to live in my house for therest of your life? You’re such a lovely girl,after the marriage I wouldn’t dispose of youlike your brother and sister.”

Violet imagined sleeping beside CountOlaf, and waking up each morning to lookat this terrible man. She pictured wanderingaround the house, trying to avoid him allday, and cooking for his terrible friends atnight, perhaps every night, for the rest of herlife. But then she looked up at her helplesssister and knew what her answer must be.“If you let Sunny go,” she

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said finally, “I will marry you.”“I will let Sunny go,” Count Olaf

answered, “after tomorrow night’s perform-ance. In the meantime, she will remain in thetower for safe-keeping. And, as a warning, Iwill tell you that my assistants will standguard at the door to the tower staircase, incase you were getting any ideas.”

“You’re a terrible man,” Klaus spat out,but Count Olaf merely smiled again

“I may be a terrible man,” Count Olaf said,“but I have been able to concoct a foolproofway of getting your fortune, which is morethan you’ve been able to do.” With that, hebegan to stride toward the house. “Remem-ber that, orphans,” he said. “You may haveread more books than I have, but it didn’thelp you gain the upper hand in this situ-ation. Now, give me that book which gaveyou such grand ideas, and do the chores as-signed to you.”

Klaus sighed, and relinquished—a wordwhich here means “gave to Count Olaf eventhough

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he didn’t want to”—the book on nuptial law.He began to follow Count Olaf into thehouse, but Violet stayed still as a statue. Shehadn’t been listening to that last speech ofCount Olaf’s, knowing it would be full of theusual self-congratulatory nonsense anddespicable insults. She was staring at thetower, not at the top, where her sister wasdangling, but the whole length of it. Klauslooked back at her and saw something hehadn’t seen in quite some time. To those whohadn’t been around Violet long, nothingwould have seemed unusual, but those whoknew her well knew that when she tied herhair up in a ribbon to keep it out of her eyes,it meant that the gears and levers of her in-venting brain were whirring at top speed.

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Next: Watch my video to help you with some of the mixed VIPERS questions. Questions:

1. Pg 105 – Define ‘comrade’.

2. Pg 108 - What does it mean if you ‘skulk’ somewhere? 3. Pg 105 - Why do you think Count Olaf put Sunny in the tower? 4. Explain why Klaus and Violet felt powerless in this chapter. 5. Order these events in chronological (time) order (1-4)

Violet agreed to marry Count Olaf ___

Count Olaf walked them into the garden ____

They saw Sunny ___

They looked up at the tower ____

Session 2 Subject: Maths – Using multiplication and division by 10, 100 and 1000 skills in the context of converting between units of measure. Approx. Time: 10 mins exploring video tutorials and 15 mins completing the questions Recording: Please complete these in your exercise book What to do first: Watch my video of converting between units of measure. Questions: Copy table and convert from cm to m

Remember 100cm = 1m

cm metre

134cm 1.34m

208cm

326cm

283cm

1.09m

5.43m

3.07m

Copy table and convert from m to km

Remember 1000m = 1km

m km

1234m 1.234km

1345m

1504m

2030m

1.6km

2.403km

3.97km

Challenge:

Activity: Times Table Rehearsal Online: https://ttrockstars.com/ Approx. Time: 20 Mins Practice Recording: Recorded online and checked by teacher remotely.

Session 3 Subject: English – Gathering ideas for independent writing. Approx. Time: 30 mins writing. Recording: Complete in your exercise books. What to do first: Watch my video of some ideas for writing to engage.

Next: Look at the images below to gain some more ideas

Need more: Check out this website for lots more inspirational pictures: https://www.literacyshed.com/the-images-shed.html

Your Task: To write any type of text to engage the reader. Think about who your reader will be, it

could be your parents, brothers or sisters, me or for family members you haven’t seen for a while.

You can use the pictures to help you with ideas or you can research your own ideas.

The text can be anything:

A Story.

An information text.

A diary entry.

A setting description.

A newspaper report etc

Session 4 Subject: Connected Curriculum Approx. Time: 60 Mins Information: Using your connected curriculum menu, please complete approx. 4 of the activities listed (or something else you can think of linked to our topic area) this half-term. You can complete these activities independently, or as a family. We are excited to see what you have learned about and created.

Answers Session 1 Subject: Reading Comprehension – Mixed VIPERS questions – Bad Beginnings – Lemony Snicket – Ch 9.

1. Pg 105 – Define ‘comrade’. Comrade can be some you work with but it is often used for members of the army or amred forces.

2. Pg 108 - What does it mean if you ‘skulk’ somewhere? To move in a way to keep out of sight, often in a sinister or cowardly way.

3. Pg 105 - Why do you think Count Olaf put Sunny in the tower? I think Count Olaf put Sunny in the tower because he knew the children wouldn’t be able to save her up there. I also think he did it because it was a high building so it made the children more scared for Sunny so they would go along with his bribe.

4. Explain why Klaus and Violet felt powerless in this chapter. Klaus and Violet felt powerless because there was nothing they could do to save their sister. Normally, they are able to think of a solution to a problem because they are very intelligent but not this time.

5. Order these events in chronological (time) order (1-4)

Violet agreed to marry Count Olaf _4__

Count Olaf walked them into the garden _1___

They saw Sunny __3_

They looked up at the tower __2__

Session 2 Subject: Maths – Using multiplication and division by 10, 100 and 1000 skills in the context of converting between units of measure.

Copy table and convert from cm to m

Remember 100cm = 1m

cm metre

134cm 1.34m

208cm 2.08m

326cm 3.26m

283cm 2.83m

109cm 1.09m

543cm 5.43m

307cm 3.07m

Copy table and convert from m to km

Remember 1000m = 1km

m km

1234m 1.234km

1345m 1.345km

1504m 1.504km

2030m 2.03km

1600m 1.6km

2403m 2.403km

3970m 3.97km