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Privilege Questionnaire Receive Recommend Referred Reference Relevant Religious Please practise these Year 5 spellings. They are all commonly misspelled words so are tricky. A little practise each day is best. Use the spelling strategies that you know, or be creative with how you practise them. Good luck! privilege questionnaire receive recommend referred reference relevant religious You must learn each spelling. You should find out the meaning of each spelling. Make sure that you understand each word. You could write each spelling into a sentence to show your understanding. Fancy a challenge? ‘Be the teacher’ and set yourself a spelling test at the end of the week for somebody at home to test you. Can you think of a sentence to put them in just like we do at school? Can you also include a think back challenge? Monday18th May 2020 Objective: To ask questions to improve my understanding Have a close look at the image below: Monday18th May 2020 Objective: To ask questions to improve my understanding Now that you have had a close look at the picture, we would like you have a think of some questions linked to the picture that pop into your head. To do this, have a go at using the Question Matrix. As we have used this quite a few times, you should hopefully feel fairly confident. Try to use one question word from the left hand side along with one from the top. How many different questions can you think of? What is in the hands of the person on the left? Who might be in this picture? Can you use a variety of Where did this picture come from? different question types? Have a look at the image to the left. This is from a piece of Ancient Greek pottery which was found by archaeologists. What do you notice? What is the same? What is different? After looking at the pottery, does this answer any of your questions or do any more questions pop into your head? Tuesday 19th May 2020 Objective: To retrieve information from a text Have a look at extract from ‘An Exclusive Interview with Zeus’ on the next page. Now that you have read the text, have a go at the following retrieval questions. Remember to skim and scan the text for key words to help. 1. Which television channel is Zeus being interviewed for? 2. Who carries Zeus’ lightning bolts? 3. What collects Zeus’ lightning bolts? 4. Who was Hera? 5. Before Zeus, who was the supreme ruler? 6. What happened to Zeus’s siblings? 7. What was Zeus’s mother’s name? 8. How did Zeus’ mother fool Cronus to save Zeus’ life? 9. Why did she choose to save Zeus? 10. Where did Zeus hide? 11. What did Zeus force his father to do? 12. Where was Cronus and Titus thrown? 13. Who became god of the sea? 14. What did Hades become god of? 15. After reading the text, what do you now think the image above is showing? Order these events in Zeus’s life. The first one is done for you. Zeus grew up in Crete in a mountain cave. Zeus became God of the Sky. Zeus’s siblings were eaten by Cronus 1 Zeus’s mother tricked his father. Zeus defeated his father. Using information from the text, decide whether each statement is true or false. True False Zeus had 6 siblings and each one of them were swallowed by their father, including him. Zeus married hundreds of women but Hera was his main wife. Zeus lived in England in secrecy until he was old and powerful enough to fight against his father. Check out this Horrible History video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gszq943CgGY Joining us today on History TV, is the god of all gods; it’s none other than the almighty Zeus! Help me make some noise to give him a warm welcome! Q: So Zeus, let’s not waste any time. Can you tell us a little bit about your powers? A: As the God of the Sky and ruler of Olympian gods, you should know that my weapon is a thunderbolt! Whoever dares to displease me gets a thunderbolt hurled at them. My winged horse Pegasus carries my lightning bolts and I have a trained eagle to collect them for me. Trust me - you do not want to get on the wrong side of me! Q: Fierce! I can imagine you had no trouble with the ladies then? A: It’s funny that you should ask that… I was married to Hera. Oh and a few others. Well hundreds of others to be precise! But Hera was my main wife. She was actually my sister- it was common to marry your relatives in those times. Q: Who decided it should be you that is the god of the sky? A: You should know that I haven’t always been the big, bad ruler of everything. Before I was born, my father, Cronus was the supreme ruler. But of course he couldn't have this title forever. Eventually, he would be knocked off his throne by one of his own children! You won’t believe me if I tell you what he did to stop this happening…. Q: We’re on the edge of our seats! Something tells me we’re not going to like the sound of this. What did he do? A: Obviously, Dad didn’t like the idea of not being in power. So, he decided the only thing to prevent this from happening was to swallow each of his children! Shocking, I know! His first five children - my siblings - went straight down the hatch! Q: That isn't quite what I was expecting! What made you so special that you weren’t swallowed? A: Well of course I was my mother, Rhea’s, favourite! So when it came to me, she had a trick up her sleeve. She wrapped up a rock in baby blankets and fooled Dad into thinking it was me. My mother pulled the wool right over his eyes! I was then hidden away in a mountain cave on the island of Crete, where I grew to adulthood in secrecy. Q: So how did you become the god of the sky tucked away in the mountain cave? A: Hmm, let me think about that. Well as soon as I was older, I forced Dad to regurgitate my brothers and sisters. Then, we waged out all war on him. Obviously, we won the battle. I even had the pleasure of throwing Dad and the other Titans into Tartarus - the deepest pit of the underworld. Q: It must have been tough to decide who was worthy of what. How did you decide? A: As you are aware, there were a few of us. So my brothers, Hades and Poseidon, and I drew lots to see who would get to rule over what. In the end, I got the sky, Poseidon got the sea as his domain and Hades got the underworld. Wow! This interview really has been enlightening. Thank you so much for taking the time to speak to us today. Ladies and gentlemen, please give a round of applause for Zeus! Wednesday 20th May 2020 Objective: To read and retrieve information from a Greek myth Have a read of ‘Reasons for Seasons’ on the next page. Now that you have read the text, have a go at the following retrieval questions. Remember to skim and scan the text for key words to help. 1. Who were Persephone’s parents? 2. Who appeared out of the dark? 3. Who gave consent for Hades to take Persephone as his queen? 4. Where did Hades take Persephone to? 5. Find three ways in which Demeter’s grief changed the earth. 6. Who did Demeter seek to punish? 7. Who was instructed to bring Persephone back to Demeter? 8. What did Hades admire about Persephone? 9. What did Hades trick Persephone into eating? 10. What was the fate of those who ate or drank in the underworld? 11. How many seeds did Persephone eat? 12. When Zeus visited who did Hades agree that Persephone could visit? 13. For how long was Persephone expected to remain in the Underworld for? 14. According to Greek mythology, when Persephone was in the Underworld, what seasons was it? 15. According to Greek mythology, when Persephone was with her mother, what seasons was it? 1. Persephone was happy in the Underworld. Do you agree or disagree? Explain your answer using evidence from the text. 2. Using the description below, draw and label what Hades might look like. Can you also draw Cerberus? As the ruler of the dead, Hades was a grim and ghastly figure, inspiring awe and terror in everybody. Consequently, he was rarely depicted (shown) in art. When he was, he was most commonly portrayed with a beard, and a solemn, mournful look. He frequently wore a helmet, named the Helm of Darkness or the Cap of Invisibility. Cerberus, the three-headed dog which guarded the entrance to the Underworld, is usually beside him. Every so often he carried a scepter or the key to his kingdom. At a later stage, he became associated with his weapon of choice, the bident, a two-pronged fork modelled after Poseidon’s trident. The Greek goddess, Persephone, was the child of Demeter, the goddess of earth’s fertility and harvest, and Zeus, the king of all the Olympians. Persephone lived a happy, fruitful childhood, playing with the other Olympian children and spending time in the gardens of Olympus.
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