L Year: 4 /5 Code: Less able, Lower Middle, I Wk : 1 Upper Middle, More Able. T Whole Class Whole Class E Shared Text Phonics, Spelling, R Read/Write Vocabulary, A (Screen capture the text & Grammar C print out copes of the speech prior to the lesson on Monday). Y M O N T U E W E D T H U F R I Listen to Neville Chamberlain’s speech. Why was the speech made? What reasons are given for going to war? Which words are used to persuade people? Listen to radio announcement again and look at paper copy of the text. Identify why formal language is used. TEACHER/ Teaching Assistant Focus Group Learning Intentions Learning Objectives: Y4 T3- T18, T19, T25, S4, S3. Y5 T3- T13, T14, T15, T16, S2, W13. Renewed Framework Strands: 2, 4, 6. Y4- Listen to a speaker & make notes on the talk. Create roles showing how behaviour can be interpreted from different viewpoints. Deduce characters’ reasons for behaviour. Y5-Analyse the use of Persuasive language. Reflect on how working in role helps to explore complex issues. Infer speaker’s perspectives from what is written & what is implied. Guided Hot seat different people living in Britain, (e.g. army wife, factory worker). How do they feel after hearing the speech? Make notes on how you feel after hearing Chamberlain’s speech in pairs/small groups. Imagine you are going to be addressing Chamberlain about your thoughts about the war declaration: LA: Soldiers, or army wives. LMID: City factory workers who may be called up to fight, GMID: Parents of children who may be evacuated, MA: Members of Hitler’s government in Germany. Collect new words from the speech, e.g. ambassador to begin to make in to a class dictionary/glossary of WW2. Language detective Card- Teacher Focus group. Identify purpose, type of language, edit text as a group to make it even more persuasive. Record headlines that could appear in the newspaper on 2nd September 1939. Ask children in 2 minutes to write down as many different persuasive text types that Neville Chamberlain could use to persuade people to support the war effort. Look at wartime and modern recycling posters- Rethink Rubbish. How do these posters compare with posters in 2006? Why might the GB government have chose posters to do this? Look at the 5 Persuading the nation posters. What do they all have in common? Which is most effective? What is rethink rubbish 1 persuading people to recycle. Think how we recycle these things today. Teacher Focus Group: look at all 5 posters- Identify the purpose of each one, why posters have slogans. Write new persuasive slogans for each of the 5 posters. (Both middle groups) Revisit all posters on the SMARTBOARD. How can use of appropriate colours & good artwork help to persuade people? Look at each other’s posters. Is the poster effective in its persuasion purpose? Work in pairs- 1 child who is good at Art, the other who is good at Literacy. Work together to use skills to improve each other’s poster/leaflet. Opportunities For: Assessment Teacher Focus groupDesign own leaflets to send out to people based on theme of growing your own vegetables- As a group design characters, e.g. Colin Carrot. What is he like? Include speech/ thought bubbles. Can children recognise persuasive language? Are children able to write a persuasive slogan for a poster/leaflet? ICT Note making- In pairs pick out the main points from the speech. Why are there few adjectives? Write the opening paragraph that you think will appear on the front page of the Times newspaper on 2nd September 1939. (LD card 3) Compare 2 evacuation posters on a Venn Diagram. Which is the most effective of the 2 posters and why? Decide in pairs. Use established criteria and give a mark out of 25 for each section- total /100. Design posters persuading people to contribute to the war effort: 1) evacuation, 2) recycling, 3) growing your own vegetables, 4) joining the RAF or army. (Remainder of the class). PLENARY Drama Activity: Act out ideas to Chamberlain, (who is the class teacher) Conscience Alleyshould Britain go to war? Middle group to share new slogans with the class. Are they better than the original ones? Work with partner to think of a persuasive slogan for each other’s poster/leaflet. Add new words from the posters into the class glossary, e.g. munitions. Use of SMARTBOARD to play Neville Chamberlain Speech, view Recycling and persuading the Nation posters. Rigby Dimensions: Bombs Away- Neville Chamberlain Speech and Persuasive & Recycling Posters. L Year: 4 /5 I Wk : 2 T Whole Class E Shared Text R Read/Write A C Y M Play Persuasion news item on O evacuation then watch first 2 N minutes of Goodnight Mr Tom Code: on SMARTBOARD. Less able, Lower Middle, Upper Middle, More Able. TEACHER/ Teaching Assistant Focus Group Whole Class Phonics, Spelling, Vocabulary, Grammar Guided Record in pairs 5 words/short phrases to describe the urban setting then the countryside setting, e.g. dangerous- urban. Look at the picture at the start of the evacuation film clip on the screen. Together as a small group, write some sentences to describe the setting that the children were being evacuated from. Learning Intentions Learning Objectives: Y4 T3- T16, T19, T23, S4, S3. Y5 T3- T13, T16, T19, S2, S7, W13. Renewed Framework Strands: 1, 10. Y4: respond appropriately in light of alternative viewpoints, Use commas to mark clauses. Y5: Present a spoken argument, sequencing points logically, Adapt sentence structure to different purposes, e.g. for persuasion. NB-Goodnight Mr Tom is a PG so permission from parents needs to be sought before children watch the film. Write a paragraph to describe London at the outbreak of war. Write paragraph to describe the countryside from Goodnight Mr Tom at the start of 1939. Write either a paragraph to compare the 2 locationsurban/rural setting. PLENARY Think about the connectives that compare locations- e.g. however, on the other hand. T U E Set up an alley down the classroom so that it is like London street. Watch clip again. Select adjectives to describe the street. Imagine we are all children going to be evacuated. How do we feel? What are our hopes and fears? First Steps Chain Writing Activity in mixed ability pairs. Each pair will need a copy of page 19, mounted on A3 paper. (Children being evacuated) Follow instructions on attached chain writing sheet for evacuation. Children record each stage below their picture. Combine the words to make a sentence. W E D Look at 2 Evacuation posters on SMARTBOARD and the New Lives picture. If you w ere a parent would you have wanted your child to have been evacuated? Record 2 opposing views on the board. Set up room for debate. Oral work: make an argument against the motion All children over 5 should be evacuated from London. PARENTS group. (Use language detective Card 4 as a prompt). T H U Look at pages 18 & 19 in Bombs Away- write rhetorical question for picture to persuade- e.g. Surely the children are having a great time? (pg 18) Hot seat the children on page 18- how are they enjoying their new life? What can they do a their new home etc. Using notes from yesterday’s debate construct an argument for or against evacuation. Keep same roles and viewpoints as yesterday for continuity. LA: Parents for evacuation, LMID: parents against evacuation, GMID: Gov for evacuation, MA: Country children against the motion. Who else might have a view on this? E.g. farmers. F R I Watch the scene from Goodnight Mr Tom when a billeting officer tells Tom that he must have an evacuee. What are the arguments for and against him having an evacuee? Record on whiteboards. Drama in groups: Set up scene in groups of 4- 1 person is Mr Tom, another the evacuee, another the Billeting Officer and another the vicar. Present short scenes to the class persuading Tom Oakley to take in an evacuee. Talk about role of Billeting offices- add to class glossary on WW2. Oral work: make an argument for the motion All children over 5 should be evacuated from London. PARENTS group. Oral work: For the motion- the government. Against the motion- Children already living in the countryside. Discuss where punctuation would come in our sentences, such as commas to build up tension. Introduce rhetorical questions. Look at how they can be used in persuasive work. Opportunities For: Assessment Are children able to use persuasive phrases & rhetorical questions: a) orally and b) in their writing. E.g Surely not… Rigby Dimensions: ICT Use of SMARTBOARD to display navigator evacuation clip, evacuation posters and video of Goodnight Mr Tom. Bombs Away Evacuation posters, Evacuation News Item Other content: Extracts from Michelle Migorian’s Goodnight Mr Tom. L Year: 4 /5 I Wk : 3 T Whole Class E Shared Text R Read/Write A C Y M Read Start of The War Hero O on the SMARTBOARD. (LA N have Bombs Away books with Code: Less able, Lower Middle, Upper Middle, More Able. Whole Class Phonics, Spelling, Vocabulary, Grammar visuals in) What kind of story opening is this? Is it speech, action, or description- use the text to support your answer. T U E Identify with children learning from yesterday and that the setting also refers to a time period, e.g WW2. How far into the war do you think it was when the author was writing. Use text to support answers. W E D Display War Hero text. As a class complete shared writing on SMARTBOARD where the setting stays the same but it becomes a speech opening. T H U Watch 15 minute opening on Goodnight Mr Tom. What evidence is there that the film is set in WW2? Discuss who could be in conversation e.g. David. Keep to 2 people. Model use of speech marks and adverbs and correct punctuation within it e.g. ! ? , Identify the type of opening that it is. How would you have like to see the film started? Identify powerful verbs & other vocabulary we could use. TEACHER/ Teaching Assistant Focus Group Guided Learning Intentions Y4 T1- T1, T4, S3, S4, W5, W6. Y5 T1- T1, T3, T11, S4, S5, S7,S8, W7. Renewed Framework Strands: 2, 8, 11. PLENARY Y4- Compare the contribution of music, words and images in a short film extract to words & images in a text. Use settings to engage a reader’s interest. Distinguish the spelling and meaning of common homophones. Y5- Experiment with different narrative forms to write fiction texts. Vary pace and develop viewpoint through use of speech, portrayal of action or selection of detail. In pairs or small groups look at a range of stories that have been written on the theme of WW2. Examples: Friend or Foe by Michael Morpurgo, The Blitz by Robert Westall (4 short Discuss how every story will have stories), Johnny’s Blitz, Rigby Star WW2 Off This is war set of Guided Reading books For at least 1 location where the Y4 (3 WW2 short stories) ,D Day by Dennis Hamley. action takes place. Sort the stories by their opening according to if they are speech, action or dialogue. Do some of the stories combine elements of some of each? Why do author’s In pairs look at pictures of Peepo on pages 10-13. provide pictures 1 child in each pair to be a scribe and 1 to be reporter feeding back to the class what they have found out in the openings of from both the pictures about life in Britain during WW2.. stories? Is it a What kind of setting could the story opening for Peepo have? E.g. log fire in front room with wireless on etc. good idea? (MA- link to History- could discuss the reliability of this kind of evidence in telling us more about WW2) Children to change Teacher Focus gp: to change the setting Children to change Children to change Share speech War hero text of the story to the same setting as in War hero text War hero text openings. How opening into speech. Navigator Shared Writing Starter, (give opening into speech. opening into speech. effective are Aim to: have “ “ ! ? & each child copy) of a train but so the Aim: to have speech Aim to: have “ “ ! they in engaging commas used opening is with speech. Include reported marks used and ? used the reader’s correctly. and direct speech with very able. correctly. correctly. interest? Teacher Focus GroupWrite own story opening Write own story opening Write own story opening Look at opening write own story opening for the film that begins that combines for Goodnight Mr Tom from the bookfor the film that begins with a description of description and action that begins in the how does it with a description of village scene, (without for Goodnight Mr Tom. church- combine action compare to the village scene. adult support). and description. film? Use Shared Writing starter on Discuss with the children how Use editing skills to go back through story openings that we have written to ensure that we have used the War hero. (Edit words so that the incorrect homophones correct homophones in our work. homophones such as new, sun, change the meaning of LA: Focus on common homophones, e.g. to, too, two. Both MID groups- more complex ones, e.g. hair/hare, reign and wandered are the sentences. wondered/wandered. MA: focus ones with apostrophes in, e.g. you’re, they’re. incorrect ones displayed). Think up a title for this story. Opportunities Can children analyse the features of a good story opening? ICT Rigby Dimensions War hero Story displayed on SMARTBOARD, Are children able to: a) use speech marks accurately, b) use Dimensions Shared Writing Starter displayed and edited on SMARTBOARD, For: punctuation within speech effectively? Use of film. F R I Assessment What type of openings do we like best for stories set in WW2? Can children write a story opening that engages a reader to want to read on? Rigby Dimensions: Bombs Away War Hero Other content: Goodnight Mr Tom film L Year: 4 /5 I Wk : 4 T Whole Class E Shared Text R Read/Write A C Y M Read first & second verse of O the Evacuee on page 9. How does the person writing the N poem feel? Compare to news clip on evacuation. Code: Less able, Middle, More Able. Whole Class Phonics, Spelling, Vocabulary, Grammar What rhyming pattern is there? Pick put words on the theme of WW2. T U E Read the rest of the poem Identify that the poem is a Narrative Poem because it also tells a story. If you as an evacuee could take 5 things in the suitcase what would they be and why? E.g. photo of your mum. W E D Shared Writing- edit the first verses of the Evacuee adding in adventurous vocabulary- e.g. Clutching a suitcase in my hand. Read poem as a class again, in sombre mood imagining that we are evacuees who are very lonely like the author of this. Does the poem have a beat? Pick put words that rhyme, e.g. hand/stand. Sort words into which have same spelling pattern and those, which do not. How would the vocabulary and mood alter if the evacuee had been excited about being evacuated? T H U TEACHER/ Teaching Assistant Focus Group Guided Teacher Focus Group- work on performing the first 2 verses of the poem. Dress 1 of the group up as an evacuee. Nominate others to be readers or editors of the poem’s rhyming words. Teacher Focus GroupComplete character rating sheet -The Evacuee where all adjectives are given. Look at where the evidence from the poem is to support our answer. Teacher Focus Group- Issue words from poem that don’t rhyme in the poem, e.g train, feeling. List words that rhyme with them, then sort into spelling pattern groups. Teacher Focus group- work with children to begin Narrative Poem in same mood and style on different war theme, e.g. rationing. Learning Intentions Y4 T2- T6, T7, T14, S3, W3. Y5 T2- T4, T5, S8, W3 Renewed Framework Strands: 6, 8, 11. Y4- Use knowledge of different organisational features of texts to find, infer and deduce information effectively. Develop & refine ideas in writing, choosing and combining words to create a particular effect. Spell unfamiliar words using range of strategies. Y5- Infer writer’s perspectives from what is inferred & what is implied. Reflect critically & independently on own writing to edit and improve it. Group and classify words with regular spelling patterns. Write down alternative rhyming words for hand, me, and blazer for the poem. Complete character rating sheet with suitcase on. Children need to think of 2 more pairs of appropriated opposite adjectives to put on the sheet then comment upon. Word Sort- page 2 as word sort 1 but with the more complex words, e.g. razor, blazer. In pairs experiment with changing the lines or word order around, e.g. Across me, my gas mark slung- can you think of words that could rhyme with blazer or slung to fit the poem? Complete character rating sheet with all adjectives given with no adult support. Word Sort page 1- in pairs sort words into rhyming gps-, which have the same spelling pattern? Use original poem to write own version of the sad evacuee, keeping the rhyming pattern the same, different words. Start own version of The Evacuee where the evacuee is excited about being evacuate. Choose how your poem will rhyme, e.g. could be in rhyming couplets style. PLENARY Teacher focus group to perform the first two verses of the poem. Hot seat people mentioned in the poem- Billy Brown twins, mum. Add new words to our WW2 glossary, e.g. gas mask, blazer. Hot seat the excited evacuees- what are they expecting? F R I Look at lay out of a poem. How should a Narrative Poem be laid out? E.g in verses. Opportunities For: Assessment Set up success criteria as a class for writing s poem- e.g. Capital letter at start of each line, commas to end each line, full stop at end of each verse. Finish poem from yesterday. Work with response partners to ensure that vocabulary is suitable & that class success criteria is being followed. LA to be supported by teacher/ teaching assistant with this. Are children able to lay out a poem correctly? Do children understand what a Narrative Poem is and are they able to write part of one? ICT Share new poems with the class. How do they compare to the original? Use of SMARTBOARD to show evacuation news clip & to complete shared writing. Rigby Dimensions: Bombs Away Narrative Poem- The Evacuee L Year: 4 /5 I Wk : 5 T Whole Class E Shared Text R Read/Write A C Y M Play the video clip of Night Mail. Listen to rhythm of the O poem What evidence is there N about when the poem is T U E W E D T H U written in eth clip? Read & listen to the poem being read. What is the narrative in the poem really all about? Read Shared Writing Starter Faster then Fairies….. then From a Railway carriage in Bombs Away book. Compare the 2 on a Venn Diagram. Type in one of the children’s work into the SMARTBOARD. As a class look at the rhythm that it has. What do we like about the poem so far Code: Less able, Lower Middle, Upper Middle, More Able. Whole Class Phonics, Spelling, Vocabulary, Grammar Give out paper copies of the poem. Ask children to clap or tap the rhythm of the poem as each child in the class reads a rhyming couplet. Make list of all the different people that received letters. What vocabulary tells us that they are set during WW2. Where is each of them set? What is the rhyming pattern of each? How can we change the poem so that the vocabulary and beat of the poem are improved? Chn make suggestions on whiteboards. TEACHER/ Teaching Assistant Focus Group Guided Learning Intentions Y4 T2- T4, T5, T11, Y5 T2- T4, T5, T7. Renewed Framework Strands: 3, 7. Y4- Take different role in groups and use the language appropriate to them, including the roles of reporter, scribe, mentor, leader*(Substituted with editor on plan). Explore why and how authors write in a specific genre. Y5- Understand different ways to take the lead & support others in groups, understand the process of decision-making. Compare how a common theme is presented in poetry. Performance Poetry- Children have access to woodblocks, triangles & other percussion instruments that they may require in order to rehearse and perform their verse of the poem, groups of 4s. have 2 readers and 2 instrument players in a group. LA: verse 1, LM: verse 2, GMID- verse 3, MA: verse 4. PLENARY The polished performance of the Night Mail! What is Night Mail all about? What story is it trying to convey to the reader? Work in mixed ability groups in 4s. In each group there is a) reporter who reports back the group’s findings to the class, b) scribe who records all the ideas, c) mentor to help smooth out disagreements and encourage people to make democratic decisions, d) editor- who re reads the group’s notes and works with the group to make changes where necessary. Reporters to feed back to the class what their group thinks Night Mail is about. Teacher Focus group: Work with Write own version of first verse of Write own version of children to write own opening verses of From a Railway Carriage, giving your poem but in different From a railway carriage. Use two opening poem its own title. mood, beginning Slower lines as a starter- keep mood of evacuee Keep to same rhythm of poem with own than…….. buoyant as in original poem. rhyming couplets. (Both MID gps) Children to continue their ‘From a Railway Carriage’ poems. Aim to complete both verses by the end of the independent sessions. Continue to work on editing poems with response partners. Read/perform them to each other Read first verse to partner. How is the rhythm of our poems developing? Language Detective card 2- Rhymes for unusual words F R I Look again at the 3 Narrative Poems studied. Which do we like best and why? E.g Night Mail because of the impact of the sound. Opportunities For: Assessment Look a t how each of the poems used rhyme, e.g rhyming couplets increased the speed of the poem. Complete Night Mail Review Sheet independently. (While this is happening teacher/teaching assistant could be putting children’s poems into a class anthology entitled From a Railway Carriage…..2 children could design a front cover on the computer for this class book) Are children able to read expressively and keep a rhythmic and correct beat in order to perform a Narrative poem? ICT Look at finished class anthologywhat do we like about it? Use of SMARTBOARD to play Night Mail poem, display shared writing text Faster than Fairies and design front cover for class poetry anthology. Rigby Dimensions: Bombs Away Narrative Poems- Night Mail & From a Railway Carriage. L Year: 4 /5 Code: Less able, Lower Middle, I Wk : 6 Upper Middle, More Able. T Whole Class Whole Class E Shared Text Phonics, Spelling, R Read/Write Vocabulary, A Grammar C Y M Look at Instructions for having As a class on the SMARTBOARD rearrange the O a relaxing bath. Why would these instructions be difficult instructions so that they are in N to follow? chronological order. TEACHER/ Teaching Assistant Focus Group Guided Add in time connectives to sequence the instruction after the numbers and before the verb. Introduce word pen ultimately. T U E Look at Emergency Procedures Clip. (5 ½ mins) Chn record verbs heard, e.g drop, pull, place). Why are verbs such an important part of instructions? Pick out vocabulary, (nouns) specific to the plane instructions, e.g oxygen masks, slide, red handle, operation of doors, seat belt, TV monitors. Work in small group round the computers with teacher. Listen to Emergency Procedures clip- add in adverbs at appropriate points. Record ideas on whiteboards- e.g firmly, tightly. W E D Look at safety card on page 67. Look at how diagrams as well as words are important in instructions. What do you think the words in the foreign language actually say? Share ideas with partner, then groups, then class Design a safety card to put in plane seats. Use Safety on Board Airbus A340 as a writing frame. Learning Intentions Y4 T1- T16, T17, T22, S23, S4. T5 T1- T25, S4, S8, S9. Renewed Framework Strands: 2, 8, 12. Y4- Listen to a speaker and make notes on a talk, (Video clip). Summarise, shape material and ideas from sources to write information texts. Y5-Identify some aspects of talk and evaluate impact on audience. Adapt non-narrative forms & styles to write non- fiction texts. Use range of ICT programmes to present texts. PLENARY Look at the use of Look at the use of Look at use of adjectives in the verbs in the text-, adverbs in the instruction- remove which could be instructions-which all adjectives from improved upon? E.g. are necessary? the text. get, take Work in mixed ability to compile list of other types of safety/emergency instructions, that we may see/hear. E.g fire exit instructions in school. What are the purposes of these instructions? Who is the audience in each of these instructions? What do instructions need to be? Clear, concise, in sequence. Drama- act out giving plane emergency instructions as air hosts or hostesses. Complete safety card for a pilot & crew in WW2 for their plane. (Both Mid gps) Look at last 30 seconds of the clip. Why does it try to be persuasive at the end? Design safety card for a cruise liner. Think how it would have similar design & lay out but different headings, e.g lifeboats. Display Learning Intentions on screen Dimensions for Writing Instructions. Look at use of LA: Write list of 5 short instructions and diagrams for top 5 things to do or gather together if an emergency symbols & happens at home. (Not in case of fire/ or other emergency services being involved) numbers on LM: As LA but include time connectives to prioritise what you could/should do and adverbs. e.g Take quickly…. instructionsGM: Write instructions for an emergency for children in WW2- what to do if an air raid siren goes off. (Use e.g 999, knowledge from history & Literacy & DT). MA: Include time connectives and present instructions as a flow chart. Look at WW2 What other types of instructions will we find around us? Cross Curricular link to History & WW2- Look at selection of wartime recipes (these could be got from the F imperial units of Examples: Rules for games, directions, school rules, recipes, DIY Internet). measure- e.g R assembly instructions, road maps and AA Route finders. Look at similarities and differences between the instructions studied this week, e.g. similarity is that they pints, calculate contain verbs, time connectives and adverbs and are sequenced in chronological order. Differences may I metric ones. * include ingredients section Opportunities Can children write in the correct style of instructions: ICT Write in present tense, use verbs and adverbs not adjectives, Use of SMARTBOARD to play The Emergency clip, display Learning Intention for For: use time connectives appropriately, number or bullet point instructions. instructions, appreciate the value of diagrams in instructions? T H U Look at Emergency 2004 on page 4, 5. Which of these instructions are essential/desirable? (Link to PSHE unit of work). Do they need to be in a particular sequence? What things do you think you should gather together if you are at home & an emergency happens? Assessment Rigby Dimensions: Bombs Away Emergency 2004 & Emergency in the Air. *Cross curricular link to Numeracy.