Task One: Read Your Reader for Ten Minutes

Year 9

7th April 2013

Do now:

Task one: Read your reader for ten minutes.

Task two: Write the title ‘Dangle’ and today’s date.

Find the 15 mistakes in the following text:

Most hed teachers are chosen because they possess a number of fine qualities, They under stand children and have The children’s best interests at heart They are sympathetic. they are fair and they are deeply interested in education miss trenchbull possessed non of these qualitys and how shee ever got her pressent job was a mistery,

We are learning to: / This is because to achieve Level 6, you need to: / How?
Vary our sentences in our writing. / Deliberately use a variety of sentences to achieve purpose and overall effect, and clarify or emphasise meaning. / By revising sentence structure in a brief description.
Proofread our writing to ensure that it is varied in sentence structure and punctuation. / Experiment with ambitious sentence structures and punctuation, making occasional errors. / By revising punctuation.

To be successful you will need to:

· Be willing to take risks

· Adjust, tune, improve

· Generate and explore possibilities

· Structure and organise your learning

· Review processes used and any assumptions made

Plenary Task:

Self and peer-assessment

Most head teachers are chosen because they possess a number of fine qualities. They understand children and have the children’s best interests at heart. They are sympathetic, they are fair and they are deeply interested in education. Miss Trenchbull possessed none of these qualities and how she ever got her present job was a mystery.

Starter:

You need to use a variety of sentence structures in your writing to engage your reader and reach the highest grades possible.

Gorilla Smiled Sentence Structure

Introduction:

You will now transfer this knowledge into paragraphs of writing. You are going to watch a short video clip. Pay attention! I will be asking you to write about what happens in the video clip.

Dangle

Development:

You will now write for 15 minutes explaining what happened in the video clip.

Write a brief description of the film you have just viewed. In your description make sure you include:

A simple sentence
A compound sentence that is connected with ‘and’
A compound sentence that is connected with ‘but’
A complex sentence beginning with an adverb
A complex sentence beginning with beginning with a preposition
complex sentence beginning with adverbial (fronted) phrase
A complex sentence beginning with noun phrase
A complex sentence beginning with embedded subordinate clause
A complex sentence beginning with subordinate clause (at the end of the sentence)
A complex sentence beginning with semi-colon (followed by a complete sentence)

Be ready to share how well you did!

Reflection time:

Take one minute to reflect on what we have learned today. To what extent have you met the learning objectives?

To be successful you will need to:

· Be willing to take risks

· Adjust, tune, improve

· Generate and explore possibilities

· Structure and organise your learning

· Review processes used and any assumptions made

Plenary:

Self-assess your work. Put numbers next to the different sentences.

1. A simple sentence

2. A compound sentence that is connected with ‘and’

3. A compound sentence that is connected with ‘but’

4. A complex sentence beginning with an adverb

5. A complex sentence beginning with beginning with a preposition

6. complex sentence beginning with adverbial (fronted) phrase

7. A complex sentence beginning with noun phrase

8. A complex sentence beginning with embedded subordinate clause

9. A complex sentence beginning with subordinate clause (at the end of the sentence)

10. A complex sentence beginning with semi-colon (followed by a complete sentence)

Swap books with someone near to you.

Let’s hear some of the descriptions you have written.