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Summary for Lesson 1
In our first lesson together, we focused on the genre of science fiction, thinking about how to analyse various authors’ writing and envisaging of sci-fi technologies and with the class then creating their own. The powerpoint with all of the resources is attached below, which should be used to help write the homework. It also contains our work on thinking about the different types of sci-fi through key passages from three famous science fiction novels, our work that we completed on defining science fiction and the creative prompts and work the class completed regarding creating technologies and thinking about the big ‘what if’ questions sci-fi deals with. The class all worked brilliantly today, I was really impressed with their creativity and thought that their enthusiasm was fab. They came up with wonderful ideas as to how an alien would view Earth and used this to help them articulate the draw of science fiction on the human imagination. Amazing work everyone, super impressive thinking today- see you next week 🙂
Here is the intro video we watched in the lesson on science fiction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrusqQ5JftA
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Hi Beth,
I don’t why this webpage doesn’t upload my word attachment. Let me copy and paste the text here.
Please see Ethan’s work below. Thanks.The Aliens
Once there was a boy called Tim and has a sister called Delilah. They wanted to go to the cinema but Tim didn’t finish his homework.
Back in his bedroom, Tim hunched over his writing homework trying to think what to write. Suddenly, he stood up and stretched, yawning. He paced his bedroom looking out of his window then he suddenly halted staring out of his window.
He gasped; he was sure that his eyes were tricking him. He imagined a blaze of red light. Tim peered out of the window and was stunned, hovering in his back garden were spaceships. The ugly menacing aliens on the spaceships were looking around, some were staring at the plant as if they hadn’t seen one. Some of them were off the spaceships on the rampage destroying the flowers. One of the aliens in the spaceship was wrecking Tim’s bedroom window…
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Hi Beth here is my homework :
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1efGsG9kcP2LcDtS-zCfMgC4usluUqujUxKms7AJbU_E/edit?usp=sharing
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Summary for Lesson 2
In our lesson together, we continued work on the genre of science fiction, thinking about how to use all we had learn for our own sci-fi writing. The powerpoint with all of the resources is attached below, which should be used to help write the homework. It also contains our work on the conventions of science fiction, the class’s ideas for features of a sci-fi society, our work on free-writing and our vocab test based on the vocab from last lesson. Slide 7 contains some prompts that the students can use for inspiration in their own writing, and can use to help them with the homework. Everyone worked beautifully today, I loved hearing about how they would use the conventions of sci-fi in their own writing and thought they were creative and engaged throughout. Great work everyone and I look forward to seeing you next week! Well done 🙂
Inciting incident video that we watched: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKBsZS846o8
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The Deadly Dinosaur Attack
There’s a boy called Max that always goes on an adventure.Today he will go on a deadly dinosaur adventure.He’s going to travel by a hot air balloon. He is on his way to the USA. One hour later, he is in France. In the next two hours, he was finally in the USA. He found a zoo and now he booked his ticket and started looking at all the animals. He saw: penguins, elephants, zebras, horses, deer , pigs, cows and last of not least dinosaurs.One dinosaur had broken the cage door. Now, all the other dinosaurs are up on the rampage. Luckily, Max is a secret agent and he has useful things in his backpack. He has:a grappling hook, a hoverboard,a helmet, strong rope, jet boosters,a hang glider and the strongest rope that is unbreakable. Max got out his Hoverboard and his helmet. He put his helmet on.As he chased the dinosaurs as he got out the strongest rope of all in the whole entire world. When he rounded the dinosaurs up he lassoed all the dinosaurs. He held the end of the rope and brought all the dinosaurs back into the cage and tied the end of the rope on the bar. Then he fixed the cage with more unbreakable rope.Afterwards the zookeeper said three cheers to Max hip hip hooray hip hip hooray hip hip hooray. On the next day, when Max was home he saw he was on the news and they were so proud of himself.
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Hi Beth
Here is my homework from Lesson 2:Chapter 17As Scarlett ran and ran she saw the Venomous snake chasing after her.At least she thought that it was a Venomous snake but instead it was just a long, cute alien baby . Well at least she thought it was an alien baby but instead it was her little electric Baby Yoda that followed her wherever she went. After that, she rushed past a house and saw a tiny little girl in need of money. Then she saw a kind lady that gave her £50. It was the best thing she ever saw !!!!! After that Scarlett hugged baby Yoga so tight that her arms hurt. Baby Yoda could do almost anything. This includes having whatever he wanted and doing whatever he wanted. Surprisingly, his mother said that he was only allowed 3 wishes and that Yoda had already used one of the wishes and that was to follow Scarlett wherever she went. She headed home which wasn’t very far and told mum about what had happened. Sadly she didn’t believe her “it must have been your imagination” she said.Well even if she didn’t believe Scarlett, Scarlet still knew it was very true. Best friends can always change the world or can they …
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Summary for Lesson 3
In our third lesson together, we focused on the genre of fantasy, thinking about how to analyse various authors’ writing and envisaging of entire mythological worlds and with the class then thinking about using these worlds as inspiration for their own. The powerpoint with all of the resources is attached below, which should be used to help write the homework that will be set in our next lesson. It also contains our work on thinking about the different types of fantasy through key passages from three famous fantasy novels, the students’ ideas about what to expect to find in a fantasy novel, our work that we completed on defining fantasy and the creative prompt the class used to help them think about extending a fantasy world of their choice in their own writing. The class’s work today was outstanding- really creative, imaginative and engaged throughout. They all came up with excellent ideas and thought deeply about the concept of fantasy and what it entails. Really well done everyone- it was a pleasure to see you all today and I’m excited to read your stories! 🙂
Here is the intro video we watched in the lesson on building fictional worlds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQTQSbjecLg
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The Golden Stitch
There is a boy called Frankie and he has a friend called Eric who also had a friend called Charlie.They go to a wizard school and it was their first day.They went under the sorting hat which put them all in Gryffindor instead of Raven claw. The headmaster, who is called Dumbledore. He told them to get a good night’s rest for the next day because it’ll be the Match of the Golden stitch. The next day, they got prepared for the Golden stitch. The top hoop is worth 15 points, the bottom hoop it’s worth 10 points and the middle hoops are worth five points. They were against Ravenclaw on the day and if the goalkeeper catches the golden stitch the game is over and that team won. Later, Ravenclaw scored 100 points and Gryffindor scored 99 points.Soon Gryffindor‘s goalkeeper caught the golden stitch so Gryffindor won the match. Everyone who is in Gryffindor and people who voted for them were so happy.
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<p style=”text-align: left;”>Faraway Tree : Erika Hernandez</p>
Cold icy snowballs poured down and splattered on the ground. A thick white blanket of snow was covering the towering trees. Beth, Joe and Frannie were striding slowly through the vast woods. Silently, a cold breeze drifted swiftly by. Without warning, a dark shadow leaped rapidly from branch to branch. A cold shiver ran down the children’s spines. “AAAHHH A MONSTER!!!” shrieked Frannie who was petrified. When the shivering children arrived at the colossal Faraway Tree, the friendly joyous squirrel who was wearing a knitted, ruby red jumper bounded over to them. “ Good morning children,” cried the squirrel enthusiastically.“Oh it’s you! Good morning!” gasped the children in unison. “ As you can see we have a new system of going up the tree in the Winter time,” remarked the squirrel. She pointed her fury finger at the bottom of the sturdy, magical tree. Surprisingly, there was a secret password lock hanging on a rusty nail.
“What does it exactly do?” asked Beth curiously. “ So when you type in the password , there will be a door and you can go inside. Inside the tree there is an elevator and you can type where you want to go and it will take you there.” explained the cute squirrel. “ Thank you so much for the detailed explanation.” replied Joe. “ If you don’t mind me asking, what is the password?” asked Frannie politely. “It’s smelly socks.” answered the squirrel. As the squirrel bounded away, Joe typed smelly socks on the secret password lock. Suddenly, a small door appeared. Everyone crawled in…
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Hi Beth
Please find my homework for lesson 3:
cThe Banished city.
Chapter 16
In a nice country called England lived a nice city called Fasinder, lived a nice girl naked Ruby. Ruby was a very thoughtful girl who loved reading. One day she was about to go to bed when she heard a noise. At first she thought it was her tummy rumbling but the noise grew louder and it wasn’t coming from her. Her mum and dad were sleeping so that was OK. She slowly crawled out of the house and came outside. Then she saw a boy. “Are you OK ?” asked Ruby. She then tugged the boy’s hand and then the boy stood up. “My name is Jax,” said the boy. “Parents not like me. So ‘ey abandoned me”. “If that’s the case, then you will have to come with me’’ said Ruby. Jax stood up and followed Ruby. “did you hear the noise ?”asked Ruby. Jax nodded face down. Ruby grew up to be liking Jax and she never ever left his side. Soon they got married.Thank you
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The Banished city.
Chapter 16
In a nice country called Zambia was a beautiful city named Kabwe. There lived a nice girl named Ruby. Ruby was a very thoughtful girl who loved reading. One day she was about to go to bed when she heard a noise. At first she thought it was her tummy rumbling but the noise grew louder and it wasn’t coming from her. Her mum and dad were sleeping so that was OK. She slowly crawled out of the house and came outside. Then she saw a boy.
“Are you OK ?” asked Ruby.
She then tugged the boy’s hand and then the boy stood up.
“My name is Jax,” said the boy.
“Parents not like me. So ‘ey abandoned me”.
“If that’s the case, then you will have to come with me’’ said Ruby.
Jax stood up and followed Ruby.
“Did you hear the noise ?”asked Ruby.
Jax nodded face down. Once, Ruby brang Jax to her house, her mum was pretty glad that her own child was so kind to bring a boy home. Unfortunately her dad disagreed .
‘’You are not responsible. Remember that time when we tried to get a puppy and you couldn’t even feed it the right food ?”
Ruby didn’t trust herself to answer him. So she went upstairs with Jax and had a chat with him. The chat was all about how they could make Jax stay. Then Ruby had the best idea ever. Her plan was to make Jax dress up as her older brother and her older brother could pretend to be Jax. Well that was a pretty good idea after all .Ruby even made Luke (her brother) dress up as Jax by telling him it was pajama day at school and that he could borrow Jax’s pajamas to go. Ruby grew up to like Jax and Jax also grew up to like Ruby.
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Summary for Lesson 4
In our lesson together, we continued work on the genre of fantasy, thinking about how to use all we had learn for our own fantastical writing. The powerpoint with all of the resources is attached below, which should be used to help write the homework. It also contains our work on the conventions of fantasy, the class’s ideas for creating a fantastical creature, their character creation of a central protagonist, our work on free-writing and our fantasy story spinner. Slide 7 contains some prompts that the students can use for inspiration in their own writing, and can use to help them with the homework, and I will post the link for the fantasy story prompt spinner below. Everyone worked wonderfully today, their creativity and imagination were amazing and I really enjoyed hearing about the worlds they were building up in their heads. Fantastic work everyone! 🙂
Here is the story spinner link: http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/story-starters/fantasy-writing-prompts/index.html
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<u>The Earthquake</u>
I had a small garden and had a lot of flowers and they warned me that we were in danger. Then the ground rumbled and I ran away for cover. The ground split in half and it is not a good place to take cover. Under a tree!!! That was the only place I could find to take cover. The tree shook and nearly fell on me. EEEKKK!!! I climbed on the top of the fallen tree and saw a volcano. I forgot that there was a volcano in my city. I ran to the river and climbed the railing to the ship. The boat sailed away just in time as the volcano erupted. PHEW!!! The lava rinsed down on the city and everybody was on the ship yay!!! The ship sailed away for safety.
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The Earthquake
I had a small garden and had a lot of flowers and they warned me that we were in danger. Then the ground rumbled and I ran away for cover. The ground split in half and it is not a good place to take cover. Under a tree!!! That was the only place I could find to take cover. The tree shook and nearly fell on me. EEEKKK!!! I climbed on the top of the fallen tree and saw a volcano. I forgot that there was a volcano in my city. I ran to the river and climbed the railing to the ship. The boat sailed away just in time as the volcano erupted. PHEW!!! The lava rinsed down on the city and everybody was on the ship yay!!! The ship sailed away for safety. The ship brought us to Scoglio Pietra Salata in 1 day and a half. We thanked the driver of the ship and got off. Everybody bought a house to stay in. They bought: beds,blankets,carpets, phones,iPads,fridges,ovens,food and much more.soon everyone was happy.
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Title: Magical Candy Land!
Tara’s long delicate eyelashes fluttered open. Tara was eight years old who loved exploring new places. She has silky plaited blonde hair and has penetrating blue eyes. For a second, she forgot where she was. The soft breeze touched her smooth cheek. As quick as lightening, her vivid memory flashed back to her. Of course, she was lying on the colossal eagle’s back. Wispy, pearl white and puffy clouds swiftly passed by. After an hour, the majestic eagle landed softly on the sweet-scented groud. “ Thank you so much for dropping me off here,” thanked Tara in an enthusiastic voice.
“My pleasure, call me any time,” remarked James. Before long, he swooped off. Meanwhile Tara was trying to find her good-hearted family.
All of a sudden, a soft rustingly broke the peaceful silence. Rapidly, Tara turned around. Her sneaky fifteen years old brother, Max, crawled out of a leafy bush. “Come on Tara,” whispered Max. Max wore scruffy jeans and a bloody red top. As they walked, Tara gazed at the towering, enormous or miniature sweets that were in the distance or nearby. Max stopped dead in his tracks. “ I think we are LOST!” cried Max sounding worried. Salty tears pricked Tara’s eyes. The tears trickled down Tara’s cheeks like waterfalls. “ I miss..mummy and daddy,” sobbed Tara. Max hugged Tara comfortingly. “Here suck this lollipop to keep calm,”suggested Max. He tugged a medium sized lollipop out of the ground.
When dusk came, a blaring terrific sound filled the noiseless sky. Max’s mouth fell open in shock. It fell open like a cave opening up. Max and Tara huddled close to each other for comfort. Two looming shadows approached them. “Come on kids lets go home,” declared a familiar voice. “DADDY!!!” shouted both children in unison. Before you knew it, they were settling themselves in their cosy livingroom, chewing and sucking sweets from their journey.
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Hi Beth
here is my homework:
One upon a time lived miller who had a dog and then she went to this tower and then she found a magic bow and arrow she decided to call it Fjf. She first did not what she had to do with these two pairs if things but after a wise old man came and told her that she had to pull the string and then let go. At first she aimed older brother and then she aimed at her mum and dad and everyone in the would and then she left being happy. She could do whatever she liked and could also steal all the candy’s from the shops and she could get a mansion without even having to buy one. After a while sh felt very tired and proud of herself wich then she lived happily ever after.Thank you
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Summary for Lesson 5
In our fifth lesson together, we focused on the genre of children’s stories, thinking about how to analyse various authors’ writing, considering the importance of engaging with the experience of childhood and with the class then thinking about the important life experiences they could use to help inspire their writing. The powerpoint with all of the resources is attached below, which should be used to help write the homework that will be set in our next lesson. It also contains our work on thinking about the key things you can expect to find in a children’s story, our work identifying classic children’s literature, and the prompt for the class’s creation of their own children’s story protagonists. Everyone worked excellently today, and were able to pick up on the nuances of tone and style within the children’s story genre, defining the genre fantastically and moulding the genre creatively. Wonderful work everyone- you were super engaged and enthusiastic throughout. Well done 🙂
Video with Michael Rosen (you can watch the rest if you’d like to know a little more about how he writes and the tips he would give): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hsr2jUcEjMk
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The Match
I was playing a game and I saw a throng of people. They were all gathering somewhere, but where? I traipsed to the crowd and it said “BUY YOUR TICKET HERE”.
I questioned the lady “what’s the ticket for?” And she replied “It’s for our FIGHT!!!”
“Can I buy one?” I asked. “Sure, but there’s only 3/4 left,”she exclaimed. I bought one ticket and sat in the middle row. There are 10 levels. If you lose, you stay on the level you are on. If you won, you go up a level and you get a different foe every level. The vast majority flew through the levels. It was so exciting and here was the result.
1st: Bango
2nd: Ryu
3rd: Ken
4th: Thank
5th: Jack
6th: Bison
7th: Mike
8th: Freddie
9th: Joseph
10th: Clipper
The other 10 just stood in a row on level one. The other half were on level 10. The ref came in and said thank you, thank you for watching the fight. Everyone left and then… Crash!!! The stadium obliterated. Luckily some builders came past and shouted“is everybody okay?” They all muttered “yes.” And they asked “Can you repair the stadium please?” They said “of course!” And they built it in a month and a half. They were sweltering and parched. At the end they declared“There you go. Bye!” The others said “Thanks a lot! bye.” Soon, I was playing the fighting online game that they made and it was so fun! Guess what place I was in? I will give you three turns. 1st? No. 2nd? No. 3rd? Yes! I was in the third. So close to the second, but that player was just so good. Hence, I came third. The end.
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Hello Beth
here is my homework for week 5Write your own children’s story
In the land lived a girl and boy who loved to play. The boy was called Jack and the girl was called Annie. Jack and Annie loved each other dearly when one day something changed their lives forever. They were skateboarding along the park when they suddenly came to a cliff. Annie thought it would be fun to start playing truth or dare with poor Jack.
“Truth or dare’’ asked Annie
“Dare’’ answered Jack
“I dare you to skateboard over that rock’’
“You owe me fifty cents’’
“Fine’’ said Annie
Poor Jack leaped over the rock without noticing that there was a cliff after. Annie came alone home giggling by the thought that her brother was vanished forever . But then when she came home she then saw her brother sitting on his favorite rocking chair.
“B-B-But how” Annie asked
“ How what ‘’ asked her brother
That’s when Annie remembered that the boy she had been skating with wasn’t her brother, it was just a random boy that she thought was one of her family .Annie went upstairs and cried and cried when Jack knocked on the door and said it was just a nightmare and all she had done bs in bed the whole entire day.Thank you::)
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Super Six Have Fun in Scotland
“Mother, can we go to Scotland to visit Aunt Amber, Uncle Christopher and Benjamin for this summer holidays?” questioned James with some toothpaste in his mouth. His mum hesitated before slowly replying “I can’t see why not.” Immediately, the childrens faces glowed with delight. James, Mia and Sophia were brushing their teeth. Sophia was nine years old and she liked building treehouses with her father. Sophia has silky blonde hair and hazelnut brown eyes. Mia was a year older than Sophia. Rock climbing and jumping on trampolines were her favourite activities. Mia has jet black hair and sapphire blue eyes. James was 11 years old and he liked playing football and was a huge fan of video games. He has black hair and emerald green eyes.
As Mia stepped out of the vast train, she could hear a friendly bark in the distance. Before long, Timmy and Benjamin were strolling towards Mia and her family. Before they knew it, they were settling themselves in the enormous cozy house. All of a sudden, was so much commotion. Aunt Amber was making tea and scrumptious scones. The parents were chatting with Uncle Christopher and the kids were running around playing with joyful Timmy. “The kids were very enthusiastic and energetic today,” exclaimed Uncle Christopher. The parents smiled in agreement.
Soon, the children were crunching away at their delicious scones and their parents were sipping their hot tea. Timmy kept going around the table to get snuggle on someone’s feet and try to grab a crumb or two. Kindly, Sophia would stick her hand under the table which was covered in crumbs. Timmy would lick Sophia’s hand until its clean. As time flicked on, Aunt Amber declared that they would have to go to bed soon.
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Summary for Lesson 6
In our lesson together, we continued work on the genre of children’s stories, thinking about how to use all we had learn for our own writing. The powerpoint with all of the resources is attached below, which should be used to help write the homework. It also contains our work on the key elements of writing for children focusing on things such as content and tone, our work on emotive writing through the medium of diary entries and our thoughts on how the moral messaging of children’s literature is one of its key defining features. Everyone worked really well today, they were able to create some lovely emotive story prompts and thought carefully about how to write more descriptively, using literary techniques and interesting imagery to come up with some amazing sentences. Well done class- keep up the fab work and see you next week 🙂
Video on descriptive writing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSoRzTtwgP4
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Hi Beth here’s my homework for week 7
<b><u><i>The magic snowman</i></u></b>
There are three children whose names are: Frank, Emily and Beth. They were thoughtful, helpful and courageous. Then mum and dad allowed them to go outside to play in the snow. They had lots of fun and they had: snowball fight snowball it snowball hide and seek snowball hide and seek it and don’t get hit by the snow bulk. Later on, the snowman came alive and it was a magic snowman. The next day, Beth asked
“Where’s our snowmen and our buildings?”
Then suddenly Frank said
“Look, an alive snowman! How did he get alive?“
Emily managed to yawn out
“I don’t know.”
Jack question them,
Shall we go outside to see? “
Emily said
“ I’ll go later today before the afternoon. “
Frank groaned,
“Fine, but do you promise or they will melt.
Best was excited and most to say
“Can we go yet? “
Frank yelled
“Let’s go!! “
Frank and Beth charged out and started finding the alive snowman.Soon Beth found the life snowman and shouted
“ I found it, I found it!!! Come behind the stable.”
Frank was running to Beth and saying
“I’m coming, I’m coming“
Beth turned to Frank and asked
“Shall I go to Emily and ask if she wants to come now?”
Frank replied
“Go but hurry.”
Beth ran to the house and screamed
“Come downstairs Emily, come hurry!!!”
Emily ran downstairs and asked
“Where is it?”
“Its behind the stable” Beth mentioned
They had lots of fun and played: snowman hide and seek it ,snowman hide and seek and repaired a snowman.
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Hello Beth
Here is my homework for lesson 6 :
Chapter 39 :As Lucy and Max strolled through the den they found an old sight that the words were rubbed out.
“What do you think it could be ?” asked Lucy
“Dunno. Probably one of those signs that they use to keep people off of the road or one of those things that they use for the warnings for some people .” Answered Max
“Are you sure because I’m sure they used signs for guides or stuff like that.’’
But Max wasn’t listening to Lucy because he was too busy looking at one of those spiders that loved to crawl on the walls.
“AAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH !!!!!” screams Lucy.
“ I can’t believe that you are admiring that horrid creature!
After Lucy let all of her screams out then she and Max crawled out of the den and then they had breakfast. I’m so sorry to tell you this because the two siblings were terribly unlucky. Lucy would have to study nearly all day because she was having her eleven plus test soon and she barely had a break. Meanwhile when she was doing that Max would be doing all the house chores and tidying up everything. If you stepped into their house you might think that their house is extremely tidy but the truth was that they were not tidy at all and that Max had just been doing all the work. On the other side of the house lived their parents. Now these parents were not nice and calming and did not even care if those children were very badly hurt or anything because they didn’t even care a teeny bit about the children. Every day when Lucy was studying and Max was doing the chores, Dad would lie in bed with a cup of hot chocolate and 9 pillows relaxing on the bed nearly sunbathing. While he was doing that Mum would be lying on the sofa with another mug of hot chocolate and a packet of banana chips sleeping. You see this sometimes , perfectly nice kids have absolutely horrid parents that take no notice of them at all !The End
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Title: Julia’s Moral Lesson: Not To Lie
Dear Diary,
Today was a horrible day for me. That’s because it’s all my fault! I thought today our class was going to have normal lessons. But, I was WRONG!!! As I am in year six, we did our eleven plus exams. Swiftly, our friendly teacher Mrs Tang handed out our results from our exams. As I stared down at my results, my heart twisted in shock and sadness. Kids were smiling at their results and high fiving each other. I felt heartbroken and astonished at my results. The results were so low! What will my parents think of me, I thought sadly. I just couldn’t believe what I was seeing. Rapidly, I pinched hard at my leg to make sure this was only a nightmare. But it wasn’t.
Before long, Mrs Tang announced that it was break. Everyone bustled out of the classroom to break. I stayed behind and told Mrs Tang about the low results and my parents. Mrs Tang comforted me and asked a prefect to be my buddy for the day. Her name was Tara and she was kind hearted and suggested we could play really fun games I never played before. The whole day, she took my mind off about the results and my parents. After eating our scrumptious lunch, she told me a hilarious joke which made me laugh sooo much that it made my bones rattle together. After I stopped laughing, I started to hiccup. That was even funnier!
After school ended, we packed our bags and went home. At the back of our blood red car, my stomach plummeted. “So Julia, what were your results from your difficult exams?” questioned my curious mother. My eyebrows furrowed. As quick as lightning, I replied that my results were fine. My heart sank in shame. To be honest, I didn’t feel good when I lied to my mum. When we arrived home, I raced upstairs to my bedroom. A few hours later, my mum and dad called me to come downstairs. Before I knew it, my dad was scolding me. It’s because I lied to mum about my results. Mrs Tang had emailed all the parents their kid’s results. A few hours after dinner, mum came in. She told me that it’s bad to lie and always say the truth no matter what. This is what she explained to me before going, “Don’t lie because we are here to help your worries. We weren’t going to be angry just because you got low results. Me and your dad have been proud of you working really hard!” Anyway I’d better go to bed now so goodnight diary.
Written by Julia
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Summary for Lesson 7
In our lesson together, we focused on the genre of journalism, thinking about what the role of journalism was and how the class could become mini news reporters themselves. The powerpoint with all of the resources is attached below, which should be used to help write the homework that will be set in our next lesson, and also to complete the homework from today. It also contains our work on what questions the class would ask a journalist (which will be answered by next week!), ideas on the structure of a newspaper, their thoughts about the types of stories featured in journalistic writing, and the prompt for their homework, which is to find a true news story to report on from talking to friends and family members, and they should bring this story to our next class together to discuss. Really passionate and interesting work today class- I loved hearing all your ideas for things that have happened that would make great news stories and can’t wait to hear about your research! Keep up the brilliant ideas, you should all be super proud of your work! 🙂
Here is the finding news video that will help with homework: https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/young-reporter/lesson-2-finding-news/zgm3hcw
Here is the gathering news video: https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/young-reporter/lesson-3-gathering-news/zqcm8hv
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<b><i><u>Trip to the fire station</u></i></b>
On the 24th of February my sister Elizabeth went to the Erith fire station. The teacher said to not fight on the bus but there’s a fight on the bus on the motorway so someone called the police to come and sort out the fight. Also my sister saw a car that was broken down and I don’t know if it was on the other side of the motorway. They did lots of things there and they did : activities with the firemen, transport for London, police stuff and firefighters stuff. My sister told me all of it but I didn’t remember all of the stuff. They did the activities for break and ate lunch there. They were all packed with lunch and ate on the coach since they didn’t come back when it was lunch time, instead they came when my class was in the clock rooms.When she came back home she was with a majority of her classmates and the rest went in different directions. Some that went with Elizebeth and she dropped them off. When she came home, she told us about the trip and showed her mini bottle. I was surprised to see the mini bottle again and I told them that I also had a mini bottle when I was in year two on the day I went to wildwood.
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Fantastic research Ethan- well done. You have collected information about loads of really interesting and exciting details of this event. I love that you’ve identified the who, what, when, and where right at the very beginning and how you have used your sister as the source for the story. You’ve gathered loads of fantastic news details here and have thought carefully about what your reader will want to know. To make this even better, could you ask your sister for a quote on what happened i.e., “the best part was probably learning about how the firefighters respond to emergencies in the middle of the night” Elizabeth said. Overall fab work! 🙂
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Hello Beth
Here is my homework for the attached lesson 7 :
Q: Why is the water salty in the sea ?
A: It comes from rocks on land and openings in the sea floor.Q: Why does the sea look blue ?
A: Because the water chooses what colour it shall be.Q: Why do you think that people throw rubbish in the sea ?
A: Because sometimes they are lazy and they don’t know where to throw it.Q: What do you think they throw in the sea ?
A: Plastics and food containers.Q: What lesson would you teach them ?
A: Throwing rubbish is very bad for our environment.Q: What do you think will happen if we don’t look after our world ?
A: The world will be a very bad place to live in.Q: What do you think will happen to our living creatures in the sea ?
A: They will get threatened to death and then will eventually die .Q: If you were a living creature in the sea how would you be feeling ?
A: Very sad and disappointed.Q: Do you know any way to stop this ? Why ?
A: Educate people about why this is bad so that living creatures should not be extinct.Q: Do you know any further facts about the sea ?
A: Yes. Lots of living creatures live in it. This includes Sharks, dolphins, seals and other small animals. It is very deep, cold, hard to swim in and salty.Q: How come a lot of people do not live near the sea?
A: A Big wave can eat you.Thank you
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Excellent research Sanya- well done! I love how you have put this interview in question-and-answer form so that you have the whole transcript once you get around to putting it into a full article. Your questions are really thoughtful and in-depth and flow really well throughout the interview. I also like the theme you have chosen to focus on- the ocean and how we as humans treat it- and think it can reflect important topics such as climate change. To make this even better, remember to say who you have interviewed on the topic and why they are a good person to listen to on this subject. Overall lovely work- well done 🙂
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This is a wonderful article Ethan- well done! Your vocabulary really shines throughout this whole piece, I absolutely love the words traipsed, gargantuan, and impish. You have communicated what happened on this trip beautifully, thinking about the reactions of the students and how this can tell you about the quality of the trip. You’ve included the who, what, when, where, and how which is brilliant (could you even include a quote from a student who went on the trip to add some more evidence?). Just be careful to stick to the prompt for the homework- this week was for research gathering, interviewing, fact collection, etc. not actually writing the article- we’re going to be putting the article together in class from the journalism you have completed this week. Overall fantastic work- well done 🙂
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Lovely research Harper- well done! You have included the who, what, when, and why excellently, making the reader clear as to what your article is going to be about. I really like how you have considered your sister’s emotions in your research, thinking about how this changed over time, and how specific you have been on the details of the pen- what it looked like, what it could do, how it worked, etc. To make this even better, could you include a quote from your sister on what happened i.e., “I had no idea we had another pen” my sister told me “I was so overjoyed when I realised it was all going to be okay!”. Maybe you can add this when we turn this research into an article in our lesson today? Overall fab work well done 🙂
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Summary for Lesson 8
In our lesson together, we completed our work on the genre of journalism, where the class used everything we had learnt about so far to begin planning their own news reports. The powerpoint with all of the resources is attached below, which should be used to help write the homework. It also contains our work on the structure of a newspaper, tips for writing an effective and eye-catching headline, the answers to the questions the students wrote last week for my journalist friend, and finally some prompts for the class to consider how they found being a journalist for a week! Everyone came up with some great ideas for news stories today, I am really looking forward to reading them all! Wonderful work class- well done for all your ideas and contributions. See you next week 🙂
Video from today: https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/young-reporter/lesson-4-writing-news/z9d3hcw
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Hello Beth,
Here is my attached homework for the following lesson :
Say no to plastic !!On the beach, in rivers in the Oceans lay layers of plastic. We ( as a world ) have to stop this fast. Animals are getting threatened and they will suffer to death and no-one wants that happening. They have done nothing to us so why should we do stuff to them ??
Already, some of them have already died to help us survive and that is all we need. Many of them get strangled to death or overgrown. When people dive into the sea to take pictures they will not see many of them relaxing in the oceans. They will see many crabs in the oceans. Now you might think that that is normal but it is not. When the crabs get born they live their life under the sea and then when for example people throw plastic jugs in the sea then sometimes the crab gets trapped in the jug but they can survive in it. However when it is overgrown of that jug it can no longer survive. We use animals to survive and we help them but if we don’t show them the respect that they deserve, then we are not gonna even help ourselves or the animals of course.
Around 140 million babies are born every year in the world. That’s more than four births every second of every day. More than half of all births take place in Asia with 25 million births in India and 16 million births in China alone every year. So that means that there are around 7.888 billion in the earth every time. Our world is losing control and it is our job to look after it. We are here by the way. It is not my fault and even if you did not do it you should still look after us and yourself because this is not how it is meant to be. People around the world just like chunking food in the oceans because they think that it would be funny in front of his/her friends or because they are lazy and they do not want to throw them in the bin. There are no bins on the beach but that does not give you an excuse to do whatever you like wherever you like. Animals deserve to have a life and so do we so why shall we hurt them ?????
I think that we as a team shall stop doing whatever we like and care for other :)dh and animals and not just yourself.
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Gorgeous work Bingwen- well done! You have used the features of a newspaper beautifully, thinking carefully about clearly communicating the 5 Ws and 1 H early in the story and opening with a snappy, concise and informative lead paragraph. I love your choice of image and caption and really like how you have added in details such as what happened last year and exactly how the race works. I think the ending lines are particularly fab, communicating the excitement and close-call of the race and painting an image of the scene wonderfully (The other students were cheering their teams by the side. Kestrel were eager to win this year, and they were so close, but they became 2nd again. Everyone had fun and the race was spectacular. Let’s see which house will win next year.) I like that you leave it on a cliff-hanger too, wondering who will win next year! You’ve chosen a great name for your paper, an eye-catching headline and have used journalism beautifully to report on the events at your school. To make this even better, could you include a quotation from an eye-witness i.e., “it was such a close race this year!” said one student from Kestrel “but the best team won in the end. Congratulations to Eagle”. Overall lovely work- well done 🙂
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Exciting work Ethan- well done! I really love your headline and then enticement for the reader to read on (“find out what happens in the trip”). You have picked the most important, thrilling, and newsworthy parts of the trip to report on and have included some excellent details, such as what the teacher’s role was. I love your illustration and caption which adds such a level of excitement to the piece and think you’ve identified some fantastic facts and figures, such as the police’s ten-fifteen minute delay. You’ve used the features of a newspaper beautifully, with the name of the newspaper, the date and the price all making it look exactly like the real thing! To make this even better, remember to put the main, most newsworthy part of your story in the first paragraph i.e., “Yesterday afternoon, police in Erith were called to break up a fight on a school bus! A group of year 6s, headed to visit the Fire Station, suffered a ten-fifteen minute delay after students had a disagreement about whose seat was whose. After the fight had been sorted out…” and then tell the rest of the story. Overall fab work, well done 🙂
Spellings:
*station
*activities
*heading
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Beautiful work Erika- well done! I love your headline which is so snappy and eye-catching and absolutely love the name of your newspaper (great use of alliteration by the way!). You have chosen the key details of the story and have woven a thrilling tale of deception, using important details such as the 5Ws and 1H to frame your story wonderfully. Your before and after picture of where the costume disappeared is really effective and creative and I really like that you have ended on the question of what happens next at the end by informing the reader the police are investigating- exactly like a real news story would! Your writing is detailed and precise, giving the exact timings of the day as a police report would and adding to the sense of urgency within the piece. Also, love the line about her jaw dropping open- could you even make this a quote from Mrs Ball herself? To make this even better, remember to tell the main part of your story first before giving us the story of what happened- you want your reader to know everything from the first paragraph i.e., “A surreal theft occurred on 15th March at Bute House Preparatory School for Girls, when a teacher had her Book Day wizard costume stolen from right under her nose. Mrs Ball had been visiting the toilet when, upon her return, she realised the costume had been taken” then you tell the rest of the details. Overall fab work well done 🙂
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Lovely work Harper- well done! I absolutely love your headline which is really eye-catching, and think your illustration of the holy cow is brilliantly drawn and really striking! Lovely use of captions and I really like how you have a box for people’s quotations on the incident- what a cool idea! Your description of everyone’s reactions is really vivid and makes the reader feel as though they were there themselves. You recreate the sense of chaos the cow caused excellently, particularly when emphasising the amazement everyone felt. You’ve used exclamation marks to give a sense of how exciting this story is and I really like how you’ve used the structure of a newspaper too- fab work! To make this even better, remember that newspapers don’t start with once upon a time like a story- they start with a lead paragraph that tells the reader the 5 Ws and 1 H of the story i.e., ‘Today a London primary school is in shock after a holy cow rampaged through its corridors this morning at 9am, making both teachers and children gather round in awe. The cow had escaped from a local circus show’. There I’ve said where (London primary school), when (this morning at 9am), what (a cow in school), who (teachers and students), why & how (escaped from a circus). Overall wonderful work, well done 😊
Spellings:
* Popped
* Instagram
* April Fool’s
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Summary for Lesson 9
In our penultimate lesson together, we focused on the genre of mystery & suspense working on planning around 12 crucial elements of mystery writing and using tips from an author who writes detective novels. The powerpoint with all of the resources is attached below, which should be used to help write the homework that will be set in our next lesson. It also contains our work on the key ingredients of mystery, why it is important to show not tell, our thoughts on defining the genre and the example of a mystery story we studied in order to work out how to build suspense for the reader while keeping them in the dark. Fantastic work today everyone- I loved hearing your mysteries for your fictional detectives and thought you all contributed really well to today’s lesson. See you next week 🙂
Here’s the video from the lesson that we watched: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAnIuUPRdko
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<p style=”text-align: center;”>The murder</p>
Hello my name is Nate and I have friends that are neighbours. We usually go on trains 🚂 to our adventure. Today’s adventure we need to figure out who murdered who. We’re taking the train from The Elizabeth Line to Paddington. When we stopped
At White House we took a different underground train to the third stop when we got out of the train and the exit. We are now in Central London. We took out our magnifying glass and started searching for clues. We didn’t stop for a restaurant since we passed our food in our bags. We ate while we were finding clues. We went into the building for example frameless. In one of them was the murder. We called the police to come and arrest the murder. One the next day,we found ourselves in the Daily News. On the bottom it said ( if you see a crime on the train call the British transport police on 61016 if on the street call 111) at the top it said ( Jack Nate and Bradley caught the murder red handed.) I called them for a party and they said ok. Later, it was 9:00pm and we had an amazing time.
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Hello Beth
Here is my homework for lesson 9
I hope you enjoy it !
Chapter 30
As me and Harry ambled the houses, we struggled to pick which one to live in.
“Don’t worry Darlings. I’m sure that we will find a place that is suitable for Granny.’’ Said Mummy. Not long after that, we met a man in a very smart suit. Harry,( my little brother) called him Mr Crocodile . I did not know why and he did not tell me.We then searched through another load of houses. We went through one that had a Lion knocker on the front door and we went inside the house and saw a spider. We
adored the house alot. But mum and dad did not like it at all . Mum said that if her and dad did not like the house next door then we could move into this house. We searched the house next door and it was horrible. Harry hated the flowers in his bedroom wallpaper. But mum and dad loved it. At the end we moved into the weird flowery house. Harry hated the house so much that he left. We all tried to find him and that’s when I had an idea. I crept next door and Curled up fast asleep in a tree was Harry.I woke him up and then on the floor I saw an old rusty key. I tried it on the door handle and it actually worked ! Who knows where magic can take you.Than you
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Title: Missing Student!!!
Chapter 1
Alexa was sitting calmly on the windowsill in her bedroom. “Have you brushed your teeth Alexa?” questioned her kind-hearted mum, who was reading her favourite book on the comfy bed. “Yes,” replied Alexa. She looked up, as a white blanket of snow came raining down onto the towering, leafy trees. “Time for you to go to bed,” cried Alexa’s dad who just popped his head around the door. Exhausted, Alexa slumped into bed and her mum kissed her lovingly. Alexa dozed off quite quickly. That day, she went to the London League and she had to swim 200 breaststrokes!!!
The next morning, she was gobbling down mouthfuls of pancakes. After she finished, she thanked her parents for the scrumptious breakfast and raced upstairs. Every morning, Alexa would race against Sophia who lived across the street and see who would be 1st. As quick as lightning, she grabbed her clothes and buttoned up her T-shirt. She dashed to her backpack and stuffed her pencil case and homework inside. As she wrenched the door open, her parents shouted in unison “GOOD LUCK ON THE NETBALL TOURNAMENT!”
Happily, she sprinted across the dewy grass and onto the pavement as fast as a cheater. She skidded to a sudden halt. For a moment, there was silence then Alexa punched in the air. She was 1st!!! As she waited for Sophia, sunshine flooded her soul. Before long, Sophia joined Alexa and they were skipping to school. As they walked through the entrance Mr. Keen was asking for the netball girls. Alexa and Sophia joined in the crowd and gestured to the courts. Something caught Sophia’s eye…
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Summary for Lesson 10
In today’s lesson, we finished our winter writing course with our mini mock exam. We began with a recap of the genres we’ve studied before watching a video on how to write beautifully and powerfully. The class then wrote their stories, choosing from prompts based on the genres we studied. Finally we did a fun journalism exercise when the class had to make up and report on some crazy stories from pictures on the board, using all their news reporter skills to do so. The class worked well today, coming up with some exciting and creative stories and using the prompts to let their imaginations run wild. It has been such a joy teaching them all over the past ten weeks and hearing them come up with such wonderful ideas- they should all be very proud of their work. The progress in their writing has been absolutely amazing and I am super impressed with them all. Well done class, keep up the amazing work and I hope to see you all soon in our next course of lessons 🙂
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Hello Beth
Here is my homework
One day as Tommy was crossing the road, he found an old lady that was having trouble crossing. He then heard the noise of a car wheel driving and then noticed that he was in the middle of the road.
SSCCCRRRRRREEEEECCHHH !!!!
He then saw his chance. E ambled through the road and then they started having a conversation.
‘Thank you very much for helping me cross the road’
‘Welcome’
Suddenly Tommy felt her arm touch his heart and then he felt all tingly all over. Before he noticed it he fell asleep. When he woke up, he felt different like really different.
He was very tired so he decided to have a nap. As soon as he got up he touched a lamppost and as soon as he did that the lamppost turned into dust.
‘I’ve got powers, I’ve got powers I’ve got powers I’ve got powers . All my friends will be so so so so so so so so so so so so so so jealous!”
He then looked at the wind and cried some really weird stuff . |( think he was just saying random words then ).
Then
Silence
He looked around then he noticed that a bell was ringing .
It was his school bell !
He then ran to school and then got there just in time as the school gates were just about close.
he told his friends Alekya, Tim and Josie and they did not believe him.
He ran off in the playground and started to weep
He then went back home and told his mum and dad and showed them and then they believed him.
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Once there was a boy who liked helping out with things for example: going shopping,helping old people crossing the road, taking out the garbage, throwing away litter in the bin, helping classmates, searching for missing things, tidying up and so much other stuff. So far he has gone shopping,36 times helping old people crossing the road, 15 times taking out the garbage, 19 times throwing away litter in the bin, 18 times helping classmates, 12 times searching for missing things, 15 times tidying up and doing so much other stuff 26 times. One day when tidy up for the 16th time he saw garbage to take out and an old lady about to cross the road so he rushed tidying up,zoomed past the garbage and managed to grab in stuff the garbage in the garbage bin and made it in time to help the old lady crossing the road. For the people in the car she looked like a witch but for the boy it looked like a normal woman. When he was running back he noticed he can run as fast and he wants to.
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Once there was a boy who liked helping out with things for example: going shopping,helping old people crossing the road, taking out the garbage, throwing away litter in the bin, helping classmates, searching for missing things, tidying up and so much other stuff. So far he has gone shopping,36 times helping old people crossing the road, 15 times taking out the garbage, 19 times throwing away litter in the bin, 18 times helping classmates, 12 times searching for missing things, 15 times tidying up and doing so much other stuff 26 times. One day when tidy up for the 16th time he saw garbage to take out and an old lady about to cross the road so he rushed tidying up,zoomed past the garbage and managed to grab in stuff the garbage in the garbage bin and made it in time to help the old lady crossing the road. For the people in the car she looked like a witch but for the boy it looked like a normal woman. When he was running back he noticed he can run as fast and he wants to.
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BIG DISCOVERY
CHAPTER 1
“Sorry to disturb you Anna, but do you want to join my mission with me?” questioned Olivia.
“Do I, I’d love to !” answered Anna and sunshine flooded her soul. Anna and Olivia were having a phone call about a space mission. The next crispy morning, Olivia ate a scrumptious breakfast and soon, she was dragging her heavy suitcase to the large chalk-white car. Silently, she drove to the station for astronauts. She grumbled and sighed in annoyance. “Great, I need to pay for the parking,” she thought. “BOO!” cried a familiar voice. For a moment, Olivia froze like a statue as confusion and shock flooded her. Laughing started to waft into her ears. Olivia spun around in anger but suddenly she smiled from ear to ear. It was Anna. Before long, they were both laughing. “Let’s go now,” giggled Anna.
Olivia nodded in agreement. They strode through the entrance like a businessman going to his office. “Follow me,” exclaimed Olivia confidently. Camly, Olivia and Anna walked outside and to the colossal rocket. Anna’s sapphire blue eyes widened as big as gleaming saucers. “Ready to go in,” asked Oliva who was gazing at the huge rocket with curiosity. Anna mouthed yes. As they stepped inside, their mouths dropped open! They were so in awe that they forgot the time. A small cute alarm clock vibrated on a wooden shelf. “ AAAHHH the time, I nearly forgot!!!” cried both girls in unison. They seatbelted themselves, and without thinking Anna pressed the BLAST OFF button! The space rocket soared off and into space.
Olivia’s heart leaped into her throat as she wibbled and wobbled on her seat. “WWWWWOOOOOAAAA” A lightbulb hit Anna. She had a plan. She told Olivia the plan. “ You unpack your stuff and I steer and when you finish we will swap,” announced Anna. “Good idea,” commented Olivia. Anna steered and wondered which planet to land on.
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The world’s smartest robot
The world’s smartest robot has been invented and is able to read book and learn by himself. He reads story books and fact books speedily as these are easy to him. He thinks he is already intelligent enough as he can read many books at once and able to calculates maths at lighting speed. So now he wants to read story books more than fact books. If he reads story books every day, he will start to dislike fact books. One day he read a book about how to fix a chicken wight mud. His face was steady, unblinking, and interested, but halfway through the giant book, he realised it was getting more and more wordy. A fog of rage created in his face which made him want to throw it in the trash bin with a mist of fury. He didn’t like it so he threw it in the automatic and snappy trash bin. After he threw the boring book in the trash bin, he started throwing all the books [even his favourite ones in the trash]
The end. BBBRRRIIINNNGGG!
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