#laboursofh – tweeted retellings of the Labours of Heracles

Click on the image to read all the tweets with the #laboursofh hashtag. Can you think of another way of retelling the Labours in short form?

 

Labours of Heracles as Tweets

As part of our myth retelling unit we’ve been looking at quickly retelling the Labours of Heracles. Add your tweeted Labours as comments to this post.

 

The Cerynitian Hind

The Cerynitian Hind was Heracles third labour. Follow this link to the story online and discuss with your response partner.  Add your ideas to describe the Hind to this Lino.it  We’ll use the ideas to help us create a collaborative writing presentation on Google Docs.

 

The Nemean Lion

Have a look at this start to a piece of writing about Heracles’ mission to kill the Nemean Lion. What impresses you? Can you identify some powerful words, or complex sentences? What could this person improve next time?

 

100 WC Week 25 – Lucas

The Incompetent Detective walked into the asylum, he went up to the receptionist and asked to see
Barry Krishner (The man who accidentally ran someone over with a steam roller.) They arrived by the cell where the receptionist left him, He pressed on the buzzer, it opened and a man with a thick German accent asked “How can I help you?” and introduced himself as Dr.Eams . They sat down and the Detective said “it must have been a crushing experience” Barry jumped out of his skin, Dr.Eams then said “like a drink Barry?” “Yes maybe some squash?” Barry fell out of the window.

 

Home Learning 16-03-2012

Thank you to all of you who found out about bread, blogged about bread and brought bread in this week.  This year’s home learning task is to have a go at another 100 Word Challenge. This one has a picture of a spider and a few words as a prompt.  Try and include some complex sentences, using commas to add in extra information.

 

Hindleap Information Text

Have a look at this information text created in class this morning by Kaiya. What do you think? What has she done well, what could she improve on next time? Add your comments to this post. Remember to think about the features that information texts have.

View this document on Scribd

 

Super Sentences

Have a look at these sentences we created in Literacy today. Which do you prefer? Why?

1. It is a huge cube-shaped building covered in a large black cloth, with gold Arabic calligraphy.
2. The Kabah is the house of Allah, it is a tall building in the middle of Mecca.
3. The Kabah is a big building in the middle of Mecca, Muslims face towards it when they pray.
4. The Kabah is a cube-shaped building, that Muslims pray towards.

 

 

February Break Home Learning

Its half-term next week, so I’m posting a couple of home learning tasks for you to have a go at. Choose one of these writing tasks (or perhaps both) and have a go. You can comment a response on this post, or use DropItToMe to send it electronically. Alternatively bring it in to school when we return and we’ll share your responses with the class under the visualiser.

Task one: complete the 100 Word Challenge for this week. The prompt can be found on the 100WC site and it is; 

…it wasn’t my fault…

Task two: write a 500 word story for the Radio 2 500 Words challenge. This could be on any subject, so is an opportunity to really impress me – and of course Chris Evans! If you want to enter the competition for real, submit your entry using the form online.

As a final task; if anyone needs to complete (or do more for) their Roman project, why not use the holiday to go to the library or a museum and found out fabulous Roman facts.

 

Improve This Sentence

As a quick starter to our information writing, try and improve these basic sentences about Boudicca.

Boudicca wanted revenge.
She got an army.
They marched on Camulodunum Londinium and Verulamium.

See how you could improve these sentences using VCOP. Think about extending them with extra description and clauses.