1. Read the Miracle of Jesus Feeds 5,000 (on PowerPoint)
Discussion pointers:
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How would the disciples have felt when Jesus told them to feed the crowd?
(awkward, uncomfortable, out of their depth, uncertain)
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How were the crowd feeling? (hungry, in awe of Jesus, not ready to go home, excited)
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What about the boy with the lunch, how was he feeling? (prepared to give what little he had)
2. Show BBC clips http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/clips/zv2b9j6 (1 min 51) - the story from the boy’s point of view. Afterwards, discuss the main features of the account:
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First person
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Past tense
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Attention to detail
3. As a class, scaffold the opening to this account. Below is a transcript of the first part of the clip:
I’ve always wanted to be a star, a hero! Did I win a battle? No. Did I help someone? Well, not someone, more like a few thousand!
The morning began by me getting up early, making my bed, milking the goat and making my sandwiches. OK I lied, I had to be kicked out of bed, forced to milk the goat, and mum made my sandwiches as I couldn’t be bothered. No hero’s perfect!
4. Main task:
Write your own account of the Feeding of the 5000, form the boy’s point of view, starting from the end of the scaffold.
Remember to:
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Include detail,
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How he would have felt
5. Plenary:
Share some good phrases from pupils, asking why they are good.
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1. Starter activity: Ask the children to show, without words, how someone would feel if they were:
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Happy
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Scared
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Hungry
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Interested
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Exhausted
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Amazed
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Offering something to someone - how would their face look?
2. Read the Miracle of Jesus Feeds 5,000 ( on PowerPoint)
Discussion pointers:
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How would the disciples have felt when Jesus told them to feed the crowd?
(awkward, uncomfortable, out of their depth, uncertain)
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How were the crowd feeling? (hungry, in awe of Jesus, not ready to go home, excited)
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What about the boy with the lunch, how was he feeling? (Prepared to give what little he had).
3. Main Task:
Split the class into groups. Explain that children are going to retell the story of the
Feeding of 5000 dramatically. Discuss what they will need to think about. Talk about some of the facial expressions they made at the start of the lesson.
They will need:
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Jesus, at least 2 disciples, small boy, people to represent the crowd
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Practice their retelling
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Pause groups every once in a while to share something good that you have seen a group doing.
4. Plenary:
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Share at least one of the performances. Asking what worked well, what could be improved.
 Complete the sentence: ‘Christians believe that if you believe in Jesus he can…’
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1. Discuss what the class knows about speech to build up their own success criteria:
 Put “……..” around what the speaker says.
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A new speech sentence starts with a capital letter.
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Speech marks go outside other punctuation.
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Separate what was said by the speaker with a comma, unless there is already a ? or a !
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Start a new paragraph if a sentence has a new speaker saying something.
2. Either give them a copy of the passage below to punctuate, or ask them to copy it out correctly.
3. Plenary: Go through the passage together, marking the punctuation and discussing issues that may have arisen.
Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand, Matthew 14:13-21, adapted
Let’s go and find Jesus. I’m sure he went that way, said someone in the crowd. Jesus spoke to the crowd and healed their sick. He had compassion on them. As evening approached, the disciples came to him and said it’s a long way from their villages, and it’s already getting late. Send the crowds away, so they can go home to eat. Jesus replied, they do not need to go away. You give them something to eat. They answered, there’s a boy here who’s offered us his lunch - five loaves of bread and two fish. Bring them here to me, Jesus said. And he directed the people to sit down on the grass.
Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke the loaves, saying thank you Father for all that you have given us. Then he gave
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them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people.
They all ate and were satisfied. This is delicious, they all said. The disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over. The number of those who ate was about five thousand men, besides women and children.
Solution:
“Let’s go and find Jesus. I’m sure he went that way,” said someone in the crowd. Jesus spoke to the crowd and healed their sick. He had compassion on them.
As evening approached, the disciples came to him and said “it’s a long way from their villages, and it’s already getting late. Send the crowds away, so they can go home to eat.
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Jesus replied, “They do not need to go away. You give them something to eat.”
They answered, “There’s a boy here who’s offered us his lunch - five loaves of bread and two fish .”
“Bring them here to me,” Jesus said. And he directed the people to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke the loaves, saying “thank you Father for all that you have given us.”
Then he gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people. They all ate and were satisfied.
“This is delicious!” They all said. The disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over. The number of those who ate was about five thousand men, besides women and children.
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1. Discuss what the class knows about adverbial clauses. The focus today will be on how something has been said or done. Adding an adverbial clause to your writing makes it so much more interesting!
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Ask class to make a list of alternatives to the word said
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Then think about a adverbial clauses to improve: o He replied o I asked o They shouted
2. What could you add to these sentences to improve them?
 “I’m on my way!” I called, gathering my lunch into a bag.
 “How many do you have?” he asked, desperately trying to sort it all out.
 “ Bring them over here please” said Peter
 “I gave him all I had!” replied the boy
 “That’s great, thank you,” he said
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3. Rewrite this passage with adverbial clauses after what people have said.
“Let’s go and find Jesus. I’m sure he went that way,” said someone in the crowd. Jesus spoke to the crowd and healed their sick. He had compassion on them.
As evening approached, the disciples came to him and said, “It’s a long way from their villages, and it’s already getting late. Send the crowds away, so they can go home to eat.
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“They do not need to go away. You give them something to eat,” Jesus replied.
“There’s a boy here who’s offered us his lunch - five loaves of bread and two fish,” they answered.
“Bring them here to me,” Jesus said. And he directed the people to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke the loaves, saying “thank you Father for all that you have given us.
”
Then he gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people. They all ate and were satisfied.
“This is delicious!” They all said. The disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over. The number of those who ate were about five thousand men, besides women and children.
3. Plenary:
Ask pupils to share their best phrases with their partners.
Make a list of the top 10 phrases they would like to try again in their writing.
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