MrJennings

On Thursday we thought about how authors create atmosphere in a story. We studied a paragraph in which a bright, joyful and carefree atmosphere is developed and looked at the ways this feeling was promoted. Then we re-wrote this paragraph together, removing everything which helped to give the piece the positive atmosphere. We finished by working individually to re-write the paragraph again, this time trying to create a threatening, creepy atmosphere. After that, we tried an old maths calculator test.

In the afternoon we did some technology, finishing off some work we have been doing creating stable structures. We finished making the products we had designed and then tested them using an adjustable slope.

Today, we had our usual Friday English and maths sessions. (In maths, we went through yesterday's calculator test.) This afternoon, after the necessary admin and homework distribution, we did some art, creating a colour wash background for a charcoal sketch.