Literacy Week 7

Day 1:

Read chapter 2 of The Boy at The Back of the Class. Click here to load the chapter Chapter 2

Then answer the following questions: 

1. What simile does the narrator use to describe the new boy’s eyes?

2.Why does Tom say he used to think there was ‘something wrong’ with the narrator at first?3. Why do you think that Ahmet stared at his rucksack throughout the PE lesson?

4.Why do you think that the new boy was allowed to sit on his own in history?

5.Why does no one learn what it was like to be a gladiator living in Roman times that afternoon?

6.Why does everyone crowd around Jennie outside the front gates?

7.What is one thing Jennie says she knows about the new boy. Use information from the text to support your answer.

8. Find and copy reasons why the narrator doesn’t think Ahmet is meeting his mum at the school gates.

9.What does the narrator give to Ahmet?  Why do you think she felt it was important she did this?

10.What does the narrator plan to do the next day, and why?

Day 2: 

Using what you have read in chapters 1 and 2 write a diary entry for the new boy. Chapter 2 talks about each lesson of the day so this will help you to structure each paragraph. Below is a reminder of features of a diary.

Day 3: 

Complete the singular and plural activities below

Day 4:

Complete the subordinate clause activities below. Mrs Roger's class might remember https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK2Gyto5gTQ

Miss Stavish's class might remmeber: I SAW A WABUB!

Day 5:

Your challenge for today is to write a story or a poem that uses all of the subordinate conjunctions from I SAW A WABUB (see the image from day 4 to remind you) Miss Stavish has written an example poem below