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Hello grade 6,

Friday’s Menu

1. Finishing off ‘Brian’s Diary’

Your first job today is to make sure that you get your ‘Brian’s Diary’ assessment sheet filled in carefully. Remember to read the sheet carefully to decide what levels you are. You also need to get a peer comment filled in. That is when someone else in the class makes a comment about your work.

2. Updating your Blog

Today I want you to write a blog entry about Middle School so far and try to link it to the ideas of survival we talked about back at the start of the year. Look back in your norebooks. What qualities did we say we needed to do well in school? How well are you demonstrating those qualities? Are there things you need to get better at?

e.g. organised, be responsible, be self-directed

If you have read another book recently you can enter a blog about that.

Remember your blog for English should be.

Interesting

Full of opinions and ideas

A true reflection of your views

Well written with good spelling

Thanks,

Mr C

1. First thing I want you to do is to look at your essays and find all the contractions (underline them or highlight them)

e.g.

don’t –> do not

wont –> will not

shouldn’t –> should not

Then I want you to find a way of remembering to avoid using contractions in any formal writing again.

2. Then I want you to cut and paste the essay onto your blog. You should categorise it (English Portfolio Work).

Then you should add a comment yourself about what you have learnt from writing this essay. You may wish to included some of my advice but you do not have to. Up to you.

3. Then I want you to watch this video.

After that read the comments. Some of the ideas might be hard for you to understand in the video, but the comments will help you.

Then I want you to write a blog on this topic

Schools, creativity and freedom.

You can write anything you like on this topic but if you want some help think of these questions.

Do you agree that schools kill creativity? (This is what Mina in Skellig and the man in the video think)

Do you think YIS does a good job of encouraging your creativity?

Do you think schools should focus on creativity?

Remember you will be choosing some of your blog entries to be assessed later this year. Assessment criteria will be posted soon but just try to write as well and as thoughfully as you can.

Thank you….Mr C