Welcome back Year 6 Year 7!

Write your Full name, Y7 English on your exercise book. Then, write the date and title.

Calculate your name's Scrabble score

Increasing our scores

Make sure you write out all your words like this so you can keep track.

D U B A I
2 1 3 1 1

Now, take your name score and Multiply it by the score of the country you were born in

Next, add the score of your favourite food

Write a sentence describing yourself, using the same number of letters as your total score.

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Warming up

Write a three sentence description of your summer, without using the letter E

AND

Only one sentence can start with "I...”

Don't use the letters S or T either

METACOGNITION

Noun, thinking about the way we think.

I think Mr Bruges made us do that task because... It helps us to...

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I remember when...

  • We had 125 lessons of English last year
  • That's more than 6,000 minutes of teaching!

With your partner, write down as many things as you can that you remember from last year

Rank them by importance or difficulty or enjoyment

📖 Reading vs. Writing 🖊️

To be a good writer, you need to... To be a good reader, you need to...
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With your partner, brainstorm ideas to go into this table

Do you think we do enough of these things in school? What can you do at home instead?

📖 Reading vs. Writing 🖊️

To be a good writer, you need to... To be a good reader, you need to...
1. Read as much as possible 1. Practice by reading lots
2. Write about your passions 2. Be consistent
3. Pushing ourselves to use complex vocab 3. Read a varied range of books

With your partner, brainstorm ideas to go into this table

Do you think we do enough of these things in school? What can you do at home instead?

Plenary

“Good artists copy. Great artists steal.”

Pablo Picasso

What did Picasso mean by this? How might it apply to our reading and writing?

Key Skills

LO: To review our key skills for English

What do you find EASIEST in English? What do you find HARDEST?

How would you have changed the unit we've just finished?

Remembering key terms

For each of these terms, write down a definition and an example:

Term Definition Example
Noun a word for an object or thing "I ran to the bus"
Verb
Adjective
Metaphor
Adverb
Preposition

What other key words could be added?

Assessment Feedback - DIRT

LO: To consider how we can improve our responses to the recent assessment

What was the thing you found most difficult about writing our assessment last term? Planning, word choice, finishing on time, spelling, grammar etc?

We checked how well you understood Dystopian fiction by getting you to write your own story. How else could we have assessed you? Write down two alternative tasks.

Remembering the criteria

In two sentences, summarise what a good response to the question needed to include.

What extra criteria could we have added?

Write the opening of a story titled The Aftermath

Criteria I have...
Spelling & Grammar ...spelt words correctly
...used punctation accurately
...used sentences for effect
Vocabulary & Language ...used ambitious vocab
...used a range of language techniques
Structure & Purpose ...paragraphed my writing
...followed the task instructions

Working on feedback

Read through your work, and highlight the best sentence of yours.

DIRT Targets

  1. Stick in your assessment and the feedback sheet
  2. Read the comments I have given on the sheet, then write three targets that you want to focus on in the 'I am going to focus on...' space .
  3. Find the incorrect spellings (marked with Sp) and write the correct spellings down in your book
  4. Start redrafting and improving your answer

DIRT Redrafting

Continue redrafting your assessment. USE GREEN PEN!

Things you can improve...

  • Ambitious vocabulary
  • Using the senses
  • Changing sentence structures
  • Correcting mistakes
  • Adding a satisfying conclusion

Can you write from another character's perspective?