Lesson 1 Immersion in the text.

Our new book is called Rose Blanche. You can see a picture of the cover o the book below.

Look at the images for the lesson below.  Think about and discuss these questions:

• Who does the bag belong to? What does this tell us about the character?
• Does the satchel remind you of anything else you have read/seen before?
• What connections can you make with the other objects?
• Is anything puzzling you?
• What do you think you know? Why do you think that?
• Did anyone have a different response? Could there be a different explanation?

On a piece of paper, use expanded noun phrases (adding adjectives and determiners to the noun) to describe objects in the images.

For example:

An old, leather satchel.

Could you then extend these sentences by adding a prepositional phrase (where things are in space of time)?

For example:

On the floor, there was an old, leather satchel.

Make sure you punctuate your sentences correctly with capital letters, full stops and commas.

Lesson 2

Look at the image below, which is taken from the book.  Think about today's images and the images from yesterday.  What questions do these images make you think of?  Write these down.

Then think about the questions below:

Where might she be going? Where has she come from?
• What connections can you make between the image and the objects?
• What do you think you know now? Why do you think that?
• What made you change your mind?
• What helped you work that out/understand what was going on?
• Did anyone have a different response? Could there be a different explanation?
• What is your impression of this setting and why?
• What is your impression of the character and why?

Did you think of any of those questions?

On a piece of paper, make a prediction about the story based on the revealed objects and image.

Now think about what you can see in today's image. Write the things you can see in a list (remember to use commas to separate items).  Try adding a colon (:) to introduce the list. Here is a link to a website that could help you with understanding colons. https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/using-punctuation-in-presentations-colons-semicolons-and-bullet-points/zhdb47h 

For example:

I can see: puddles, stones, tracks, mud and tree roots.

How many sentences can you write?

Challenge

Improve you sentences by adding a prepositional phrase like you did yesterday.

For example:

In the foreground I can see: puddles, stones, tracks, mud and tree roots.

Some other propositional phrases you could use are:

In the distance

Next to me

Behind me

Make sure you punctuate your sentences correctly with capital letters, full stops, commas and colons to introduce the list.

Lesson 3

Today you are going to need your sentences from yesterday.  You are going to use these to add more detail and description to them.  

Firstly look at the things you can see in the picture.  Write each one down and write some words or phrases you could use to describe them.

For example:

Puddle - deep, filled with watch, murky 

Tracks - muddy, made by passing trucks

mud - an uneven carpet

tree roots - exposed

Once you have done this, try to re-write your sentences adding extra detail and description.

For example:

In the misty foreground I can see: deep puddles filled with dirty water and stones, muddy tracks made by passing trucks, an uneven carpet of mud and exposed tree roots.

Make sure you punctuate your sentences correctly with capital letters, full stops, commas and colons to introduce the list.

Lesson 4

Look at the two sentences below which have been taken from the text.

She ran along rutted tracks, across fields, over ditches and frozen puddles. She climbed under fences and barriers in places she wasn’t meant to go.

Think about these questions:

• What is this person like? How do you know?
• What is being suggested about the environment?
• Why might she not be meant to be there?
• What might be her reason for going?
• Have your ideas or predictions changed? Why?

Now look at the image below taken from the text. What words would you use to describe this scene?  What would you see, hear, feel and smell if you were there?

Now list as many nouns as you can in this picture.  For example, trucks, motorbike 

You are now going to add more detail to these nouns like this example below.

Noun – truck
Adjective, noun – Rickety truck
Determiner (how many or which one), adjective, noun – several rickety trucks
Determiner, adjective, noun, preposition phrase – several rickety trucks on the dirt track

Now can you create sentences of three, using semi-colons?

From my window I can see: several rickety trucks on the dirt track; numerous injured soldiers with bandaged wounds and some disgruntled civilians.

Lesson 5

Using the image from yesterday and the sentences you created about the image, write a short paragraph describing it.  Include what you might see, hear, smell, taste and feel if you were there.