Letters to The Walt Disney Corporation

Today we continued to write our letters to  The Walt Disney Corporation. We decided to write to them to persuade them to build a disneyland in the United Kingdom. 

We found out some fantastic facts and cannot wait to show you the key information and our final letters. Keep checking our blog to see them.

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ET Phone Home

This week we have been learning about the film ET the Extra Terrestrial. We wrote several different pieces of wroting for ET. 

We wrote stories containing certain words, fact files on new pieces of technology, facts about space and information and others.

Well done Class 9. You wrote very carefully about ET and used key language features. 

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Titanic, the ship of dreams!

This week we will be watching and reviewing the fantastic film that is Titanic. 

Today we have watched the film and made key notes about key parts of the film and given our opinion on what we think of the film so far. We have also being practicing our skills during English.

As a class we were looking at different ways to address the reader in our writing. We used rhetorical questions, bossy and emotive language and practiced our targets too. This will help us when we write our film review for Titanic later on this week.

Keep checking our blog to see regular updates of our journey of Titanic!

Tsunami by Michael Winter

Wave after death,

Death after wave,

Once is no more,

Will I survive?

Dragged beaten and bruised,

People crying in despair,

What many call a haven,

Now turned into rubble.

Threw around like a ball,

Gulped up by a wave,

Will I survive?

As all hope was lost,

I was pulled out by a mystery figure,

Who knew who he was.

As I climbed to higher ground,

I saw saw family's losing relatives,

Will I survive?

As I climb down i fracture my knee,

And I started to roll,

Firing down into a hole,

Waves crashing into me,

Luckily I could swim,

Or all would be no more,

Will I survive?

With kicking all around me,

What can I do,

This madness was crazy,

Waves bringing victims,

As hungry as a pig,

Swallowing all in its path.

By Michael

Will I survive a tsunami? By Ben Behan

Will I survive ?

Will I survive ?

A human eating wave,

Will I survive ?

My boneless lime and fractured skull,

Nearly moving legs,

Oh will I survive ?

Will I survive ?

Now it's time he'll has appeared,

My home is swept away,

Right before my eyes,

Oh can I survive ?

My sister has fell into a icey grave,

Oh will I survive ?

NO IM NOT HANGING ON TO THE FIN STRAND OF LIFE,

I WILL DIE!

I jump into a killer wave to end my fail of a life,

But the he grabbed by broosed arms,

He pulled my body of broken bones,

He wriped my dream of death apart!

Now I'm around a fire,

Up in the hills,

The vally of gunby,

But oh yes I did survive!

So learn from the past,

Be tsunami aware!

And care for those in need of aid,

Like me,

The will I survive kid.

Tsunami by Brendon Wilkes

Water water everywhere,

People screaming this is unfair,

The gigantic thing is 35ft tall,

And I am only very small.

Run run if you want to survive,

Before you go to the afterlife,

I can see people trying to hold on,

But not long after they are gone.

Can YOU save us,

We don't know,

The answer is ither yes or NO.

The damage caused is attrocious,

So two young lads are raising money,

For the poor poor land,

The charity is called gandeys flip flops,

And too be honest the money pops.

The poor land,

Is now destroyed,

By the horrible...

People were running,

And running,

But didn't make it.

This chamber of horror,

Is a non-stop downfall,

People terminate to darkness,

When a ... Happens.

I was watching it on television,

And saw it come,

I hid in my room,

Feeling sorry for the people who lost their lives,

Because after all it wasn't then.

I couldn't bare seeing people die,

It was the worst,

My mum asked me what was up,

And my reply was goodnight.

On Boxing Day,

People remember the year 2004,

It brings tears,

Because of the remembrance,

Of the TSUNAMI!!!!

Poem Planning Experts

This week we have begun to write some free-verse poems. We are basing them on our natural disaster work- based on the Boxing Day tsunami in 2004. 

We started to plan our poems today and had lots of fun! 

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Language Features

This week we have been writing persuasive arguments. We were answering the question: Should we test on animals? 

The children had many different opinions and it caused a lot of healthy debate in our classroom. We looked at both sides of the arguments and children made their mind up and began to write their persuasive argument. 

To up level their writing we looked at some higher level language features. We looked in particular at word choice/register. The children did such a fantastic job. We even tried to up level writing from the animal campaigners PETA. Have a look and see what you think. 

Well done Holly and Ellie- such fantastic examples! 

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Critiquing our poems

Friday 24th October 2014 

This week we have been finalising our WW2 poetry. We created multiple drafts to ensure that they were the best quality possible. 

One thing that really impressed me Class 9 was the way that you critiqued your poems. You were all really specific and your comments were really helpful. Well done! 

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