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SPY FOX

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Persuasive writing

Write your own persuasive advert in

the role of Dr. Dodgy trying to recruit

more evil minions for his deadly

mission.

PHSE - Acts of Kindness

Make a list of the little acts of

kindness that you can do to

brighten someone’s day at home.

Can they write a letter, record a

song or paint a picture

Descriptive Writing –

Write descriptive sentences to describe a

new spy villain.

Try and use a variety of word classes to

describe their appearance, personality and

how they move.

Try to use a thesaurus to find synonyms

within their writing

Can you post your move effective

descriptive words and phrases on our class

page.

Story Writing

Write a build up scene for spy for

meeting his new enemy.

Try to vary your sentence openers

Continue with your story writing –

Using varied sentence openers write

an action scene following on from the

previous session.

Coding

Try making a Caesar cipher and use it

to send coded messages to a member

of your family or your teacher.

Secret Identity

Using the table given, can you

work out your spy name and that

of your family.

Try coming up with a secret

identity. You could make

yourself an ID card, or passport

Science

Try making your own invisible ink

Use the invisible ink pen and uv light to

practice writing your coding messages.

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Topic

Make your own fingerprinting kit

Finish any of the activities from this

week

Complete any of the homework

activities (calculation and/or reading

comprehension)

Play a game of Cluedo with your

family

THIS GRID CONTAINS AN OVERVIEW OF THE LITERACY AND TOPIC ACTIVITIES FOR THIS WEEK.

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Become a spy today

WE NEED YOU!

Have a go at answering these questions?

• What did agent H say that suggested she needs their help?

• How did she use the feature of new weapons as a persuasive device?

• Using either the slide before or printed sheet from your pack, write notes on the poster using words / phrases that were used in the recording which were aimed at persuading the children to join the mission.

• What is persuasive language?

• Look at the transcript for the recording – highlight /circle where emotive and persuasive language is used.

Transcript from agent P

“Good morning my fellow agents. Chief agent ‘P’ here, head of the international

spy network and leader of the ‘Good Guys’ organisation.

I come to you today with news of a terrible crime against humanity and an

outstanding opportunity for you to use your skills for the greater good. Our

research agents here at Spy-Tech 2020 have acquired information that the world’s

deadliest villain, Dr Dodgy, has been plotting the demise of the world as we know

it using a new lethal weapon designed to wipe out civilisation.

All we know so far is that the weapon, known to his employees as ‘The invisibility

ray’ has been built over the last eighteen months by his evil minions in his hidden

lair and has the capacity to allow him access to all of the world’s most significant

preserved artefacts and paperwork and destroy it all.

Transcript from agent P (continued)

We are looking for intelligent, brave and cunning new agents like you to join us in

a top secret mission to find and stop Dr Dodgy before time runs out.

Successful applicants will be fully trained by our organisation and granted full

access to the latest technology and defence weapons, including the illusive

‘Gotcha 2020 net’ and the ‘Duck and Dive Ferrari GTD’.

If you think you have got what it takes to help us defeat this evil mastermind and

save humankind, please send your cover letter as a matter of urgency.

Stay safe, agents. And remember this is a top-secret mission.

This message will self-destruct in 3-2-1…"

Can you create your own persuasive advertisement…

• Only this time, take on the role as Dr Dodgy recruiting more evil minions for his deadly mission.

• Use persuasive language and vocabulary to explain the benefits of his new ‘invisibility ray’ and provide a brief explanation of the machine. See the next slide for a description of the persuasive techniques that you need to be able to use in Year 5. You should aim to use as many of these as possible in order to be extra persuasive (and evil).

• Design a poster or an advert in a magazine to accompany Dr. Dodgy’splea.

Persuasive Techniques

• Power of three: try an write in threes; use three powerful adjectives; give three reasons (firstly, secondly, thirdly).

• Emotive language: Use words that make the reader feel something.

• Rhetorical questions: Ask questions of the reader to get them thinking. They are very effective, aren’t they?

• Say again: Repeat a key phrase or words

• Undermine opposing views: Tell the reader why they shouldn’t joing the ‘Good Guys Organisation.’

• Anecdote: Give examples of things you have done that the reader will like the sound of.

• Direct address: Use the pronoun ‘you.’ For example, ‘We need you.’

• Exaggeration: Be slightly over the top in order to sound better/more evil than you actually are.

Good spies test their skill and keep in practice by exchanging coded messages.

You are going to use a cypher, known as the ‘Pig Pen cypher in order to write a coded message. The blue boxes to the right show the basics of this cypher, but watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5XRTcLYy40 in order to hear an explaination.

Try and make a coded message for a member of your family or send a secret message to your teacher.

Afternoon Activity: Code breaking practice

Tuesday – PHSE

Watch ‘While We Can’t Hug’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PnnFrPaR

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Make a list of the little acts of kindness that you can do to brighten someone’s day at home.

Can you come up with 50 ideas? How many can you do in a day?

Task: Using the same characters as in the video (Hedgehog and Tortoise), story board the

characters performing their act of kindness to each other. Add color and make this storyboard

a piece of work fit for a floor book.

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Wednesday’s Literacy

https://dersingham-va-primary-and-nursery-school.secure-primarysite.net/year-3-

scieszkas-sancutary/ Using this link, recap the Spy Fox videos

Descriptive writing

• Write down three words or phrases to describe the appearance of Spy Fox. Just write down the things that immediately come to mind.

• Once you have these three words or phrases, you are going to up-level them in order to make them Year 5 Sentences. You will end up with three Year 5 quality sentences.

Up-levelling:

• Use a thesaurus and find a synonym for each of the words written down.

• Think about how Spy Fox moves. What verbs/adverbs would they use to describe his actions.

• Can you use a rule of three to describe something (three adjectives to describe a single thing)

• Can you add in a simile in order to make an appropriate comparative description?

• Could you add a clause in order to add detail. For example: The charming fox, who was dressed in his dapper tuxedo, swiftly pulled a revolver from his jacket.

• Ensure they ae punctuated correctly (commas, capitals, full-stops, brackets, semi-colons etc.)

• Use all of you sick sentence techniques in order to up-level these sentences.

Activity

• Using descriptive sentences, and all the techniques just used, write five sentences to describe a new spy villain (you get to create this villain)

• These sentences should aim to use all the techniques of the up-levelled sentences you just wrote about Spy Fox.

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Thursday: Character descriptions

Read this charcter description:

Based on this character

description, draw the

character.

Thursday: Character descriptions

Read this charcter description:

Based on this character

description, draw the

character.

Thursday -

Spy Fox was sat in his spacious burrow, drinking a hot

coffee and reading the morning newspaper, when his

spy-phone rang. Spy Fox answered and listened to the

message. It was a message from Head Quarters. The

message said that there was intelligence of a new

threat. Spy Fox jumped up and grabbed his rucksack

which was packed with all of his secret spy defence

weapons. Spy Fox switched on his navigation system

and left straight away, following the signal through the

darkness, towards the new villain’s lair.

Read through the following. Why does it sound repetitive? What do you notice about the openers for each sentence? Compare it with the next slide

Thursday -

Bleary eyed and slowly gathering his thoughts for the day, Spy Fox sat in his spacious burrow drinking a hot coffee and reading the morning newspaper. Suddenly his spy-phone rang, springing his body into action. Ready for business, he answered and listened carefully to the message, which was from Head Quarters. On the other end of the line, an automated female voice explained that there was intelligence of a fresh threat from a new evil mastermind, known as Professor Doom.

“Agent Spy Fox, we believe he intends to use his laser bomb to shrink the sun and steal the world’s supply of sunlight,” said the voice on the end of the line. Knowing that there was no time to lose, the secret agent jumped up and grabbed his rucksack. It was packed with all of his secret spy defence weapons. Unsure of the quickest route, he switched on his trusty navigation system and left immediately, following the signal through the dark streets towards the evil nemesis’ lair.

Activity

• Look through the text on the previous slide

• Can you identify where DADW of DADWAERS have been used to vary sentence openers• Description

• Action

• Dialogue

• Where

• Adverb

• Verb

• Estimation of time

• Rhetorical question

• Simile or metaphors

We will look at the AVERS section tomorrow

Activity

• Write the build up of Spy Fox meeting the new villain you described in the previous lesson.

• Try using some interesting openers like in the text on slide 22.

• You should also aim to use your ‘sick sentence’ techniques in order to ensure your writing is at Year 5 standard (rules of three, similes, metaphors, relative clauses, subordinate clauses, personification, adverbs etc.).

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Friday’s Literacy - DADWAVERS

• Watch the Spy Fox clip again.

• Pause the action scenes to think about what think about DADWAVERS –

• How would you describe …? How did SF move…? What did the characters say to each other? Where was…? Can you come up with an example sentence for each of the DADWAVERS criteria in order to describe the action that occurred in the video.

• Description• Action • Dialogue • Where • Adverb• Verb• Estimation of time• Rhetorical question• Simile or metaphors

Look through the next two slides and see where AVERS are used.

Like a stealthy, silent ninja, Spy Fox crept into Professor Doom’s warehouse and concealed himself behind a stack of crates. In the distance, he could hear a robotic voice shouting orders.

“Go that way! No not there! Move it here! Be careful!” the tone and pitch of Doom’s voice told Spy Fox that they must be moving the laser bomb into position. Craning his neck, he tried to catch a glimpse of evil perpetrator and his mousey minions.

Suddenly, without warning, the agent felt a presence behind him and the fur on his neck stood up. Slowly, he turned to see a grimacing purple mouse aiming a large revolver at him. ‘How am I going to get out of this?’ he thought.

Can you identify any other openers?

Remembering the contents of his trusty back pack, he grabbed a smoke bomb and threw it, darting out of reach and rolling closer towards the Professor’s voice. As the smoke cleared it became obvious that he had rolled right into the chaos. A circle of minions surrounded him and sat menacingly above them, on a throne made of bones, like a power hungry dictator, was Doom.

“Ahhh, Fox, I’ve been expecting you!” he growled through gritted teeth and a crooked smile, “meet my laser, Betty.”

Activity – continue with your writing

Continue with your writing from the previous lesson, this time writing an action scene using AVERS.

Try and include Spy Fox, your villain and the weapon that you invented previously.