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Lesson 4 Short burst character description teach.notebook 1 June 08, 2020

The Big Picture

To write a character description about your own 'Lost Thing'.

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Recap - Creating hyphenated words Do you remember learning about creating hyphenated words during our work on 'The London Eye Mystery?' Ted was wearing a light, blue jacket. What does the word 'light' refer to in this sentence? The weight of the jacket. We can replace the comma with a hyphen: Ted was wearing a light-blue jacket. What does the word 'light' refer to in this sentence now? The colour of the blue is light. Would we say that Ted was wearing No, because we can tell that it doesn't make a blue-light jacket? Why? sense. So, we cannot simply place a hyphen between any two words to make a hyphenated word; we must ensure that when we join two separate words with a hyphen, we are making one new word (an adjective) which describes the noun in the sentence.

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Recap - Creating hyphenated words Do you remember learning about creating hyphenated words during our work on 'The London Eye Mystery?' Ted was wearing a light, blue jacket. What does the word 'light' refer to in this sentence? The weight of the jacket. We can replace the comma with a hyphen: Ted was wearing a light-blue jacket. What does the word 'light' refer to in this sentence now? The colour of the blue is light. Would we say that Ted was wearing No, because we can tell that it doesn't make a blue-light jacket? Why? sense. So, we cannot simply place a hyphen between any two words to make a hyphenated word; we must ensure that when we join two separate words with a hyphen, we are making one new word (an adjective) which describes the noun in the sentence.

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Describe The Lost Thing using as many hyphenated words as you can. Remember, a hyphenated word is where two words have been joined with a hyphen to make an adjective that describes a noun.

rusty-orange shell

(Rusty describes the colour orange and together, the hyphenated words describe the noun).

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Let's look at this passage from The Lost Thing... Shaun's parents are adamant that he get rid of The Lost Thing. However, maybe Shaun could persuade them to let The Lost Thing stay if they knew how useful he could be...

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Complete the grid before moving onto the next slide with features of the lost thing and what they might be useful for.

Feature Use

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Complete the grid before moving onto the next slide with features of the lost thing and what they might be useful for.

Feature Use

• Rusty-orange shell/large stature
• Glossy varnish
• Muscular tentacles
• Prickly head
• Steaming spouts
• Numerous windows and doors
• Bladed forks with tinkling bells
• Concealed wires
• Propeller
• Scares off prying eyes
• Stops it from getting wet
• Helps it run faster
• Sends radiowaves to communicate with other species
• Releases hot steam to avoid too much pressure
• Inside, cogs turn to operate the lost thing's movement
• Signals its arrival/helps with navigation
• Sends electrical signals to other lost things
• Propels the lost thing forward.

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Your challenge is to write a short character description focusing on how The Lost Thing works, what the different parts of him do and how useful he could be. This is different from character descriptions we have written in the past (e.g. based on Coraline) because it does not focus on how he looks. Teacher Shared Emerging from the base of his rusty-orange shell are six muscular tentacles that serve as

• legs. As he has six legs, The Lost Thing can run much more quickly than me (with only two

legs) so he would be brilliant at running errands - he'd have them done in no time!

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Bronze Silver Gold

Challenge

Stick the picture into your book and write a short description of how The Lost Thing works. Describe 2 features and describe why it is useful. Aim to include three or four hyphenated words as adjectives.

Challenge - Use a thesaurus to ensure that your description contains many examples of HQV.

Complete Bronze including 3 features and their uses. Also include a semi colon to join two main clauses together. Remember, each of the clauses must make sense on its own and they should have something in common. Complete Silver including 4 features and their uses. Also aim to include three varieties of subordinate clause: FSC, ESC and a subordinate clause at the end of a sentence. The ESC can be a relative clause.

Date LO: I can write a character description including hyphenated words

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Self-assessment M.....