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! special success tomorrow twelfth tyranny until vacuum vicious 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? Monday 8th June 2020 Objective: To understand the meaning of words in context Have a read of ‘About The Ickabog by J.K. Rowling’. Once you have had a read, check any vocabulary that you are unsure of and have a go at the following questions. 1. Find and copy the word that shows that J.K. Rowling was planning to publish the book before she actually did. Helpful hint: have a look in the sentence beginning with: “I wrote most of a first draft…”. 2. Find and copy the group of words that shows that J.K. Rowling wrote Ickabog in bits and pieces. Helpful hint: have a look in the sentence beginning with: “I wrote most of a first draft…”. 3. Find and copy the group of words that show how long Ickabog was left in the attic for. Helpful hint: have a look in the sentence beginning with: “At that point…”. 4. Find and copy the word or group of words that shows that Rowling was uncertain about retrieving the book Ickabog from the attic. Helpful hint: have a look in the sentence beginning with: “A few weeks ago…”. 5. Find and copy the group of words that show that J.K. Rowling’s children desperately wanted her to put some parts of the story back into the book. Helpful hint: have a look in the sentence beginning with: “This was one of the most extraordinary experiences…”. 1. In the sentence, “My now teenagers were touchingly enthusiastic,” which of the following words is closest in meaning to enthusiastic? A.) disinterested B.) attracted C.) eager Can you think of any additional words which could have been used instead of enthusiastic? 2. Why do you think J.K. Rowling may have wanted a break from publishing after she completed the final Harry Potter book? 3. What questions would you ask J.K. Rowling about her decision to release Ickabog? About The Ickabog by J.K. Rowling The idea for The Ickabog came to me while I was still writing Harry Potter. I wrote most of a first draft in fits and starts between Potter books, intending to publish it after Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. However, after the last Potter book I wanted to take a break from publishing, which ended up lasting five years. In that time I wrote The Casual Vacancy and Robert Galbraith wrote The Cuckoo’s Calling. After some dithering (and also after my long-suffering agent had trademarked The Ickabog – sorry, Neil) I decided I wanted to step away from children’s books for a while. At that point, the first draft of The Ickabog went up into the attic, where it’s remained for nearly a decade. Over time I came to think of it as a story that belonged to my two younger children, because I’d read it to them in the evenings when they were little, which has always been a happy family memory. A few weeks ago at dinner, I tentatively mooted the idea of getting The Ickabog down from the attic and publishing it for free, for children in lockdown. My now teenagers were touchingly enthusiastic, so downstairs came the very dusty box, and for the last few weeks I’ve been immersed in a fictional world I thought I’d never enter again. As I worked to finish the book, I started reading chapters nightly to the family again. This was one of the most extraordinary experiences of my writing life, as The Ickabog’s first two readers told me what they remember from when they were tiny, and demanded the reinstatement of bits they’d particularly liked (I obeyed). I think The Ickabog lends itself well to serialisation because it was written as a read-aloud book (shaped, I think, by the way I read it to my own children). I’ll be posting a chapter (or two, or three) every weekday between 26th May and 10th July on The Ickabog website. The Ickabog is a story about truth and the abuse of power. To forestall one obvious question: the idea came to me well over a decade ago, so it isn’t intended to be read as a response to anything that’s happening in the world right now. The themes are timeless and could apply to any era or any country. Tuesday 9th June 2020 Objective: To retrieve information from a text Have a read of ‘Chapter 1 - King Fred The Fearless’. Once you have had a read, have a go at the following retrieval questions. Remember to scan the text for key words. 1. Which country was ruled by fair-haired kings? 2. Why did King Fred add ‘The Fearless’ to his name? 3. Who had crooked teeth? 4. What did the merchants of Cornucopia make? 5. Name Fred’s two best friends. 6. Who had a grudge against Lady Eslanda? 7. Name two things that Fred’s friends urged him to do. 8. Where is Chouxville? 9. What were the exceptional chefs of Chouxville known for making? 10. Which delicacy was the most famous of all in Chouxville? 11. What is Kurdsburg famous for? 12. Name three things that Baronstown was known for. 13. What was the most common dish in the Marshlands? 14. What is the only memorable thing that had ever come out of the Marshlands? Prediction 1. What, or who, do you think the Ickabog might be? Re-read the following description of King Fred The Fearless. King Fred the Fearless came to the throne on a huge wave of popularity. He had lovely yellow curls, fine sweeping moustaches and looked magnificent in the tight breeches, velvet doublets, and ruffled shirts that rich men wore at the time. Fred was said to be generous, smiled and waved whenever anyone caught sight of him and looked awfully handsome in the portraits that were distributed throughout the kingdom, to be hung in town halls. Using the text, draw and label what King Fred The Fearless looks like. Make sure that you use all of the clues in the text to help. Re-read the text. Using the clues from the text, can you also draw what you think Spittleworth and Flapoon look like. Remember to label your drawing. Chapter 1 King Fred the Fearless Once upon a time, there was a tiny country called Cornucopia, which had been ruled for centuries by a long line of fair-haired kings. The king at the time of which I write was called King Fred the Fearless. He’d announced the ‘Fearless’ bit himself, on the morning of his coronation, partly because it sounded nice with ‘Fred’, but also because he’d once managed to catch and kill a wasp all by himself, if you didn’t count five footmen and the boot boy. King Fred the Fearless came to the throne on a huge wave of popularity. He had lovely yellow curls, fine sweeping moustaches and looked magnificent in the tight breeches, velvet doublets, and ruffled shirts that rich men wore at the time. Fred was said to be generous, smiled and waved whenever anyone caught sight of him and looked awfully handsome in the portraits that were distributed throughout the kingdom, to be hung in town halls. The people of Cornucopia were most happy with their new king, and many thought he’d end up being even better at the job than his father, Richard the Righteous, whose teeth (though nobody had liked to mention it at the time) were rather crooked. King Fred was secretly relieved to find out how easy it was to rule Cornucopia. In fact, the country seemed to run itself. Nearly everybody had lots of food, the merchants made pots of gold, and Fred’s advisors took care of any little problem that arose. All that was left for Fred to do was beam at his subjects whenever he went out in his carriage and go hunting five times a week with his two best friends, Lord Spittleworth and Lord Flapoon. Spittleworth and Flapoon had large estates of their own in the country, but they found it much cheaper and more amusing to live at the palace with the king, eating his food, hunting his stags, and making sure that the king didn’t get too fond of any of the beautiful ladies at court. They had no wish to see Fred married, because a queen might spoil all their fun. For a time, Fred had seemed to rather like Lady Eslanda, who was as dark and beautiful as Fred was fair and handsome, but Spittleworth had persuaded Fred that she was far too serious and bookish for the country to love her as queen. Fred didn’t know that Lord Spittleworth had a grudge against Lady Eslanda.