Year 5 English Plan 8th January – 15th January 2021

Topic: Poetry (performance)

Friday 8th The video for this lesson is on your child’s class teams page. January 1) Who do you think Michael Rosen is? Have you heard of him before?

2) Read the information on the website: www.michaelrosen.co.uk/about or on paper copy (resource 1)

3) Answer the questions:

a) When was he born? b) Where was he born? c) Where did he grow up? What was it like? d) What schools did he go to up until 11? e) Who are his parents? f) Does he have any siblings? (brothers or sisters) Who? g) Do you think he gets on with his sibling? Why? h) What secondary school did he go to? i) What did he like doing at school? j) What happened when he was 17? k) What did he want to be when he grew up? l) What did he study at university? m) Where did he go to university? n) What was the first book he wrote? o) What was his first job after graduating university? p) What does he do now? q) What other books has he written? r) What other information can you find about him?

4) Check your answers. (resource 2)

Resource 1 - About Michael Rosen I was born on May 7th 1946 in a place called Harrow, Middlesex. It was on a road called Roxborough Park, near Harrow-on-the-Hill tube station. My parents told me that the night I was born, the church next door to where we lived burned down. For the first eighteen months of my life, we lived in a flat at 30A Bridge Street, Pinner, Middlesex. Then until I was 17, we lived in a flat at 6A Love Lane, Pinner. Both these two flats are still there and they are flats over the top of shops. Out the back of the shops there was a wide alleyway where all the cars, vans and lorries came to deliver the things that were sold in the shops. It was also our playground. At one end of it, there was a builders’ yard where carpenters, plumbers and painters prepared the windows, doors, pipes and things for the jobs they were doing in nearby houses. Their dump was my playground too.

I went to a nursery school called Tyneholme in Wealdstone, and then first of all I went to a primary school called Pinner Wood and then, in 1954, to one called West Lodge, where I was one of the first ever pupils there. All these three schools are still there.

I was brought up by my mum and dad. When I was born, my dad was in the American Army in Germany but when he came home, he became an English teacher in secondary schools. In 1948, when I was two, my mum trained to be a primary school teacher. When they were young, my parents had been very poor – my father especially. They had been brought up in what is now called Tower Hamlets, my mum in Bethnal Green and my father in Whitechapel.

My parents were very, very, very interested in education, schools, learning and books. They were very keen that my brother and I should do well at school. But at the same time, I have to say they were very funny, humorous people who loved jokes, stories and songs. My father loved to sing songs in lots of different languages as well as saying bits of poetry or plays – especially Shakespeare. This meant that my head was full of all kinds of words and expressions.

My brother is four years older than me and he was like a third parent. Anything they taught him at school, he thought he had to teach me. He was (and still is) a very funny person too. He was very good at imitating people he knew, including our mum and dad, which he liked to do in the bedroom we shared on the top floor at 6A Love Lane.

A good deal of my poems are about my life between the ages of about 2 and 12, so I won’t say much more about that now. These poems are in such books as:

• Mind Your Own Business (out of print, so you’d have to find this in a library) • Wouldn’t You Like To Know? (out of print, so you’d have to find this in a library) • You Tell Me (with Roger McGough) (out of print, so you’d have to find this in a library) • The Hypnotiser (my son Joe filmed me performing all the poems from this book. You can watch them all here on this site) • Quick, Let’s Get Out of Here (Puffin) • You Wait Till I’m Older Than You (Puffin) • Mustard, Custard, Grumble Belly and Gravy (Bloomsbury) • Michael’s Big Book of Bad Things (coming out in 2009

There is also a book for children about me with photos of where I lived called Michael Rosen’s Scrapbook (in the Treetops series, for the Oxford Reading Tree)

And finally a book for children I’ve written about my life called All About Me (Collins Educational, due out in 2009 or 2010)

When I was 11, I went to a school called Harrow Weald County Grammar School. My brother was there already. It was a mixed school, with a grey school uniform. While I was there, I loved doing acting and writing stories and I started to write poems. I had some very good friends, especially someone called David, who was very interested in painting and jazz. In my spare time, I loved going to an acting club called the Young Questors at the Questors Theatre in Ealing, where I learned how to act and direct plays. When I was 17, we moved house, so I moved schools to Watford Boys Grammar School. Around this time, I thought that I would quite like to be a doctor. A friend of ours who was a doctor said that I could carry on studying English, History and French, and I could start doing all the science and medical things when I went to medical school. So that’s what I did.

So I went off to the Middlesex Hospital Medical School. But I wasn’t happy and I hatched a plan: if I went to the same college as my brother, it would be fairly easy to change back to doing English. So I was very lucky and got into Wadham College, Oxford. I did one more year of medical things, and then changed to English Language and Literature. All the time I was at university, I spent many, many hours writing, acting and directing plays.

While I was at university, I wrote a play called ‘Backbone’ that was put on at the Royal Court Theatre, in London. This was my first ever book.

When I finished university, I went to work for the BBC. First of all I worked on radio plays and documentaries, then I went to work for a children’s programme called ‘Playschool’ and after that, I worked in BBC Schools Television where I wrote a programme helping very young children to learn how to read. It was called ‘Sam on Boff’s Island’.

My first book for children was called Mind Your Own Business and it came out in 1974. Quentin Blake did wonderful line drawings for it.

Ever since then, I’ve been doing these things:

• writing books • writing articles for newspapers and magazines • coming to schools, libraries and theatres and performing the poems in my books • helping children write poems and stories • making radio programmes, mostly about words, language or books • appearing on TV, either reading books, or talking about books • teaching at universities about children’s literature • running workshops for teachers about poetry

In any week, I might be doing all of these things! To tell the truth, I don’t really know what I’m doing tomorrow, unless I look in my diary to see.

Resource 2 - Answers

When was he born? I was born on May 7th 1946.

Where was he born? A place called Harrow, Middlesex.

Where did he grow up? For the first eighteen months of my life, we lived in a flat at 30A Bridge Street, Pinner, Middlesex. What was it like? Then until I was 17, we lived in a flat at 6A Love Lane, Pinner. They are flats over the top of shops. Out the back of the shops there was a wide alleyway…it was also our playground. At one end of it, there was a builders’ yard where carpenters, plumbers and painters prepared the windows, doors, pipes and things for the jobs they were doing in nearby houses. Their dump was my playground too. What schools did he go I went to a nursery school called Tyneholme in Wealdstone, and then first of all I went to a to up until 11? primary school called Pinner Wood and then, in 1954, to one called West Lodge, where I was one of the first ever pupils there. Who are his parents? I was brought up by my mum and dad. When I was born, my dad was in the American Army in Germany but when he came home, he became an English teacher in secondary schools. In 1948, when I was two, my mum trained to be a primary school teacher. When they were young, my parents had been very poor – my father especially. Does he have any My brother is four years older than me. siblings? (brothers or sisters) Who?

Do you think he gets on My brother was like a third parent. Anything they taught him at school, he thought he had to with his sibling? Why? teach me. He was (and still is) a very funny person too. He was very good at imitating people he knew, including our mum and dad, which he liked to do in the bedroom we shared on the top floor at 6A Love Lane.

What secondary school When I was 11, I went to a school called Harrow Weald County Grammar School. My brother was did he go to? there already. It was a mixed school, with a grey school uniform.

What he like doing at While I was there, I loved doing acting and writing stories and I started to write poems. I had school? some very good friends, especially someone called David, who was very interested in painting and jazz. In my spare time, I loved going to an acting club called the Young Questors at the Questors Theatre in Ealing, where I learned how to act and direct plays. What happened when When I was 17, we moved house, so I moved schools to Watford Boys Grammar School. he was 17? What did he want to be I thought that I would quite like to be a doctor. when he grew up? What did he study at Medicine and then changed to English Language and Literature. university? Where did he go to First, I went off to the Middlesex Hospital Medical School. Then, I was very lucky and got into university? Wadham College, Oxford.

What was the first book While I was at university, I wrote a play called ‘Backbone’ that was put on at the Royal Court he wrote? Theatre, in London. This was my first ever book. What was his first job When I finished university, I went to work for the BBC. First of all I worked on radio plays and after graduating documentaries, then I went to work for a children’s programme called ‘Playschool’ and after that, university? I worked in BBC Schools Television where I wrote a programme helping very young children to learn how to read. It was called ‘Sam on Boff’s Island’. What does he do now? • writing books • writing articles for newspapers and magazines • coming to schools, libraries and theatres and performing the poems in my books • helping children write poems and stories • making radio programmes, mostly about words, language or books • appearing on TV, either reading books, or talking about books • teaching at universities about children’s literature • running workshops for teachers about poetry

Monday 1) Read the poem ‘Boogy, Woogy Buggy’. Or watch Michael Rosen perform it here: 11th https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lOo315p9WM January

2) Answer these questions:

a) What is the poem about? What is a buggy? b) What does the child in the poem think is so special about his buggy? c) What can make a buggy hard or easy to push? d) What words are used to describe the different ways the buggy moves? e) What does a buggy have that helps it move? f) Do you have a ‘Boogy Woogy Buggy’ at home? What makes it special?

3) Read the poem ‘Boggy Woogy Buggy’ again. What rhyming words can you see? Write the down.

4) What other words rhyme with?

a) air b) shop c) baby d) meet e) ride f) goes g) buggy

Write down as many as you can. For example: meet, seat, treat, feet

5) Write 4-8 sentences using the rhyming words you found in part 4. Your sentences do not need to be about a buggy! For example: The children will get treats as soon as they sit down on their seats.

Bring your work to the live lesson! The time of this lesson will be posted on your child’s team page.

Tuesday 1) Practise reading the poem ‘Boogy Woogy Buggy’. Learn it by heart (if you can!) 12th January

2) Perform the poem ’Boogy Woggy Buggy’. Use the questions below to help make your performance exciting!

a) Are you using a clear voice? b) Are you making sure your voice is loud enough to be heard? c) Are you adding in body movement? d) Are you adding in arm movement or gestures? e) Are you speaking slowly enough to be understood? (not rushing!) f) Are you changing your tone of voice? (no robots please!) g) Are you speaking confidently? h) Are you making eye contact with your audience? (even if it is a camera!)

Extra!

i) Have you added in any props? j) Have you added in any sound effects?

3) Upload a video of you performing this poem to teams or email it to your teacher! Remember, you will receive house points/dojos for this!

Wednesday The video for this lesson is on your child’s class teams page. 13th January 1) Read the poem ‘Don’t’ by Michael Rosen.

2) What is the poem about?

3) Write your own version of this poem with your own ideas. Use the same structure as the poem above so think about the number of words you will need in each line, repeating lines and where your rhyming words will be in each line. Remember the things Michael Rosen says don’t do are funny so use humour in your poem too.

You will be reading your version of the poem ‘Don’t’ in tomorrow’s live English lesson.

Thursday 1) Read the 2 poems below: 14th January

2) Which of the following poetic devices are used in each of the poems? Write the examples of the poetic devices you find in each of the poems.

- Onomatopoeia (Onomatopoeia is a word which sounds like what it means e.g. thud, crash, bang and buzz.)

- Simile (A simile compares two things using the words 'like' or 'as' e.g. ‘Their food was tough as old boots.’)

- Personification (Personification is when you give an animal or object qualities or abilities that only a human can have e.g. ‘The wind howled in the night.’)

- Rhyme (Words that rhyme have the same sound e.g. ‘cheese and peas’)

- Metaphor (A metaphor is a word or a phrase used to describe something as if it were something else e.g. ‘A wave of terror washed over him.’ The terror isn't actually a wave, but a wave is a good way of describing the feeling. - Rhyme scheme (You can work out the rhyme scheme of a poem by labelling the words that rhyme with each other. It will help you see the pattern of the poem.

For example, if a poem's first and third lines rhyme you should label those 'A'. If the second and fourth lines of the poem rhyme, label these 'B'. Then you can see your four-line poem has an 'A B A B' rhyme scheme.

If all four lines rhyme with each other, this is an 'A A A A' rhyme scheme.)

- Alliteration (Alliteration is when words start with the same sound e.g. ‘Sammy the slippery snake came sliding.’)

- Mood (The mood is the feeling or atmosphere created by the poet.)

• - Repetition (Repetition is when a single word, or a groups of words, is repeated for effect e.g. 'The soup was stirred and stirred until thickened.'

Repeating the word 'stirred' suggests that a lot of time and effort has gone into making the soup.

- Hyperbole (Hyperbole is exaggeration used for emphasis or humour e.g. ‘She was dying of laughter! or I'm so hungry I could eat a horse!’)

3) We will be listening to you read your version of the poem ‘Don’t’ in today’s live English lesson. The children in your group will give feedback about what they liked and an area for improvement.

Bring your work to the live lesson! The time of this lesson will be posted on your child’s team page.

Friday 15th 1) Think about the feedback you got from the children about what they liked and the area January for improvement. Improve your version of the poem taking into account the feedback given.

2) Use the checklist given in the English lesson on Tuesday 12th January to help you practise performing your version of the poem ‘Don’t’. Think about the mood of the poem and props you could use or make to help improve your performance.

3) Perform the poem, recording it on Teams (if you can!). Remember, you will receive house points/dojos for this!