Monday, 14 September 2009

Bringing Myths Alive!!!!!!

J5 and J6 had a literacy lesson with a difference this morning! After discussing myths and legends last week, we decided to set the children the challenge of designing their own fantastical beast.
We provided them with plenty of fancy dress items and boxes of props from our many school plays and Christmas concerts and they chose a group member to be a beast and dressed him/her up. (Mrs Marlow had the most fun turning Mr Llewellyn into a beast as a demonstration!)
After they had dressed the beast, the hard work started! The children had to work collaboratively and answer certain questions about their mythical creature.

























1. What is the name of the beast?

2. What special powers does the beast have?
3. What adjectives best describe the beast?

4. Describe the beast's personality

5. What does the beast dislike? What is his/her weakness?

6. What is his aim in the myth?

The groups rotated and had to answer the same questions for other beasts.

Tomorrow, the groups will return to their original beast and work together to decide on the final choices for the beast.

Hopefully we will have some recordings for you tomorrow evening.
Mrs. Marlow and Mr Llewellyn
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6 comments:

  1. Anonymous15 September 2009 at 07:23

    to miss and sir
    i maniged to do my homework! I in joed doing the meshering on the pasels the best i did it last night but befor i had the cance to write the coment my dad bujed me off the seat !!!!!!! to go on and also it was my bed time anyway !! rosie.c

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  2. Anonymous15 September 2009 at 20:25

    Dear Mrs Marlow and Mr Llewellyn
    I loved dressing up as beasts are we dooing it tomorow oh and by the way i loved countdown this morning in maths
    from
    Charlotte
    Thomas

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  3. Anonymous15 September 2009 at 20:40

    it was really fun dressing up thank you from Harry foster

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  4. Anonymous16 September 2009 at 20:47

    To mrs Marlow and Mr. llewellyn it was really fun dressing up everyone looks awesome! I hope we will be able to do something like that again thanks for making that lesson so fun!!!

    from cora

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  5. Anonymous18 September 2009 at 07:27

    hiya mrs marlow and mr llewellyn i had a fun time dressing up the beasts and thinking of there names and powers from lauren

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  6. Anonymous20 September 2009 at 19:09

    really enjoyed making cora look like a mythical creature it was cool. i liked making up weird powers for our mythical creature. Thank you Sir and Mrs Marlow.
    Naomi

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