In our two maths lessons earlier this week, we moved on to plotting and reading coordinates in the four quadrant coordinate plane and then we translated shapes across the four quadrants. In this week's work, you will consolidate and practise those skills.
Some questions might ask you to plot points on a coordinate grid, in which case you'll have to draw your own in your book.
- Day 1: Plotting and reading coordinates across the four quadrants
- Day 2: Translating shapes across the four quadrants
- Day 3: Solving problems relating to position and direction
Here's the link to the video for The Arrival Book
Day 1
Today I'd like you to draw the first 6 main events from The Arrival so far.
Only draw up until we see Dad on the boat.
Here's an example of the layout you could use in your book.
Day 2
When my mum and dad went to Kenya in November, I decided to write my mum a card. I asked my dad to leave it somewhere she’d find it when he came home because she was going to be there by herself for 5 more weeks and I wanted to surprise her.
Imagine you are the daughter in The Arrival.
Write a letter from the daughter to her dad which she then will hide in his suitcase for him to find when he’s alone after he’s left the family.
If you’re not sure how to start it, here’s how I started mine to my mum in November.
Day 3
Today, we’d like you to have a look at a diary entry from Anne Frank.
Anne Frank was a German-Dutch girl who was a Jew during the time of World War 2. During her time hiding in an annex (an added part of a house) she wrote a diary which is now very famous worldwide.
Read this diary entry and answer the following questions:
- What tense does Anne Frank’s diary start in? (Past, present or future) Why does it start with this tense?
- Diary entries are informal and sometimes chatty because the author is writing it with themselves as the audience.
Find 4 examples of informal or chatty language. The first one has been done for you.
life was going as normal: well as in we were all creeping around in our stocking feet so the workers below couldn't hear us. - Why does Anne Frank use short sentences in her diary?
- Find and copy the rhetorical questions in this diary entry. Why has Anne Frank used these?
- Find and copy 3 similes in this diary entry. (Remember, similes are says sometimes is ‘like’ or ‘as’ something else. For example ‘I was as cold as ice’ or ‘the light was like eyes on me’.)
- What does Anne Frank mean when she says, “It fills me with dread,” on the final line?
- What tenses (past, present or future) does the diary entry end in? Why?
