Writing

This term in writing, Prophets class will be writing to entertain and inform and creating selection of genres. We will start off writing a piece of non-fiction work by creating a set of instructions, focusing on making them clear, concise and easy to follow. 

Then we will be moving on to create some poetry as we bring together our writing with our historical learning to draft and write some war poetry to really understand the feeling and emotions that soldiers went through during firth 1st and 2nd World Wars. 

Reading

This term we will be reading Fireweed as our class novel. Fireweed is a much loved classic based on part of our history topic - World War II

Blurb:

Bill is a fifteen-year-old runaway evacuee, and he's finding that surviving on the streets of London is pretty easy, thank you very much. He's fed by a local cafe owner, he earns some cash as a barrow-boy in Covent Garden, and sleeping in the Underground air-raid shelters is cosy - if a bit smelly. Things get more complicated for Bill with the arrival of Julie. She's a runaway too, and although she's a bit posh, she's just as determined as Bill to stay free of interfering parents and 'the social'. But although it's fun for a while to duck Jerry missiles and camp out in bombed-out houses, the reality of living through the Blitz quickly begins to set in. Winter is coming, and Bill and Julie will discover that playing at being grown-ups can be a very dangerous game.... 

In our reading lessons this term, we will be learning how to answer a range of questions from a text. These questions will involve us combining the different reading skills over a range of different texts and genres as well as using our developing writing skills to form longer answers involving explaining and reasoning what we think we know based on information from the text.