Year 5

Year 5

Term

 

Autumn 1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Driver Text: Ice Trap! Shackleton’s Incredible expedition by Meridith Hooper

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Fiction

Non Fiction

Poetry

Diary entry- write a diary entry as one of the crew from the Endurance.

Information text – Shackleton’s expedition.

Narrative poetry- using Sir Percy Brocklehurst Pocketknife as a model, create a poem about an explorer.

Autumn 2

Driver Text: The Lost book of Adventure, (Unknown) 

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Fiction

Non Fiction

Poetry

Survival Narrative- write an adventure story of wild camping in the Amazon.

Instructions- How to… based on instructions from the text e.g. How to build a shelter, How to build a fire.

Tudor poetry and sonnets- write own Sonnets. Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare.

Spring 1

Driver Text: Greek Myths and Legends (e.g. Theseus and the Minotaur, Perseus and the Gorgons Head)

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Fiction

Non-Fiction

Poetry

Write an alternative ending to a legend. Use the traditional structure of a legend.

To write a Newspaper Report linked to a  holiday disaster.

Write a limerick on a character from a Greek legend using appropriate rhythm.

 

Spring 2

Driver Text: The Adventures of Odysseus by Hugh Lupton

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Fiction

Non-Fiction

Poetry

Write a scene for a play script based on one of the adventures.

Information -create a leaflet on the benefits of a Mediterranean diet.

Narrative poem about the character Odysseus using Jim by Hillarie Belloc as a model.

Summer 1

Driver Text: Tom’s Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce

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Fiction

Non- Fiction

Poetry

Write a detailed setting description of the garden.

Writing a persuasive argument -Should we have a Royal family?

Should the queen be head of state in the Commonwealth countries.

Performance Poetry

Poetry Rap from the Caribbean. The poems of Benjamin Zephaniah.

Summer 2

Driver Text: Street Child by Berlie Doherty

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Fiction

Non-Fiction

Poetry

Character study. Questioning and hot seating. Write a character description.

Non chronological report – Life in the Victorian workhouse

Daffodils by William Wordsworth. Write own poems on nature in this style.

 

 

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