Homework, 21st September, 2015

This week I would like you to read the description of Camp Green Lake from the novel Holes (again, I'm not allowed to post it here, but you have a printed copy) and use adjectives to fill in the gaps. 

I would then like you to write a description of a large, scary room in a haunted mansion. Your description should be around 100 words long and should be interesting!

Michael's homework

Michael has very kindly given me permission to post the story he wrote for homework on here for everyone to read. Thanks Michael!

Robin Hood and the bath of death

Once upon a time there was a boy called Robin Hood. He was a lovely boy, a hero, but he had a fear of bath. Now, you might find that funny but actually in the olden times, before Robin lived in a forest he made the world’s horrific mistake, he made a deal with the devil. His deal was that he will finish his work the devil will stop hunting him. Now very one knows that if you make a deal with a devil, the devil can trick you. So the devil kept spying on Robin and found out that Robin is afraid of bathing. So the devil made a horrible curse. He said ‘on his sixteenth birthday the boy will start to go into the water where he will be drowned by the mermaids of death (vampires) and only bones will be shown in the water.

Now you understand that Robin was in grave danger. On the 19^th of September 1607 robin and his friends were having fun, drinking, dancing, as all of a sudden they heard screams and panic in the castle. Everyone froze, little john asked everyone in horror: ‘what on earth was that sound. Is it me or did I just hear something in the bushes’. Robin Hood said tempted: ‘everybody gather your staff, we’re going on a spirit hunt.’

In about five minutes the group was ready to go and save the poor. As soon as they got to the village the whole place was deserted and the people were all lying on the ground, dead except there was a girl standing in the middle of the road saying: ‘death is upon you all especially you Robin son of the lost lost king’ and then behind her appeared these weird creatures which had no eyes on noses, just moths teeth shaped like spikes. As soon as the girl died her spirit flew into Robin’s body he was forced to go into the lake where the vampires were waiting for the food to arrive and as soon as it did only bones were left and his were all dead, shredded into small pieces if meat.

Homework, part 2

As promised, here is the list of things we came up with in the lesson:

HORROR

Events
Things jumping out and scaring us Mysterious activities Ghosts Murder A serial killer Fear of the dark Zombies
Vocabulary
Adjectives	Verbs	Nouns
Bloody Terrifying Horrific Horrible Gruesome	Stabbing Biting Running Falling Killing Blending	Phone Blender Hockey stick Chainsaw Machete Knife

Homework, Monday, 14th September, 2015

It's time for the first homework of the new school year! Hooray!!!

It is to read the short story Robin Hood Takes a Bath and rewrite it as a horror story. I have handed out a paper copy of the story, but, unfortunately, can't post it here as I don't have permission from the publisher. 

This links in with the work we have been doing on genre, so your story doesn't need to be brilliant and it doesn't need to be very long (around 300 words), but I want you to think about some of the things we expect to happen in horror stories and some of the kinds of words you would expect to see. In the lesson we will come up with a list of helpful words as a class and I will then post them on here and give you a hard copy. 

This is due tomorrow (Tuesday) unless you have a note from whoever looks after you explaining why you were not able to do it. 

Enjoy!

Hello and welcome to Mr Q's Year 10 English blog!

I will update this blog every so often - usually once a week - and it will contain information about what we are covering in lessons. It will also tell you what the homework tasks are each week, so if your son/daughter tells you there is no homework, this is the place to check to find out if they are telling the truth!

Homework will start next week, but for now I can tell you that we will be covering creative writing. We will begin by focusing on genre, theme and plot, before moving on to the nuts and bolts of short story writing: creating settings and characters, looking at the various literary techniques writers use to make their writing more interesting, learning the rules of writing dialogue and learning how to structure a story. We will also do some work on spelling, punctuation and grammar.  

By the end of the unit, which will run until October half term, all the pupils will hopefully be able to write a short story of around 600 words. They will then revisit creative writing in Year 11 and build on what they learn this half term, with a focus on making their writing more sophisticated and mature. 

So make sure you check back every week to keep up with what we are doing and if you have any questions, you can email me in the usual way via the school office.