English

Year 6 Week beginning 22nd June

Pride Month and Diversity Week

The History of Pride Month

Having completed your reading comprehension, you’ll know

that Pride Month is celebrated every year in June, as this

marks the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. These were a

series of equal rights demonstrations held by members of the

LGBTQ+ community against oppression. This was in response

to violent police raids on LGBTQ+ establishments in New

York in June 1969. Considered a pivotal moment for LGBTQ+

civil rights, Pride Month is celebrated in June to mark how far

the movement has come and what still needs to be done to

help ensure fair treatment for all without discrimination.

Why study Pride?

By looking at Pride Month, it helps raise awareness of issues

facing the LGBTQ+ community and provides an opportunity

to celebrate the culture of inclusivity, with parades, street

parties, community events and more. Designed to help

educate people, Pride Month events are attended by millions

of people worldwide. You should have a better understanding

of this having completed your reading comprehension task.

Activity one: Read the following words and write down

what they mean in a bullet-pointed list. If you need to, go back

and find the words in the Pride reading comprehension texts;

explore the other words around them, unpick the sentences,

to help you understand their meaning.

Freedom________________________________________

________________________________________

________________________________________

________________________________________

________________________________________

________________________________________

Protesting

Equality

Harassed

Diversity

Global

Symbol ________________________________________

Activity two: Spelling test

Write down the words in the list a few times. Write them in

different orders; use various writing styles (backwards,

upside-down, italics, capitals, bubble writing, bold) and

different coloured pencils. After quite some time, ask

someone to give you a spelling test on them…

Freedom

Protesting

Equality

Harassed

D I v e r s I t y

Global

SYMBOL

Freedom

Protesting

Equality

Harassed

Diversity

Global

Symbol

Punctuation and sentence structure

Re-read the information above and have a discussion

with someone in your household about the use of

commas (,) in the text.Think about:

How many can you find?

Why are they there?

What happens if you remove them?

Why are they necessary?

Helpful Information

There are a variety of commas for parenthesis in the

reading comprehensions. But what else can we use to

correctly add extra information into a sentence?

- Brackets and dashes

Watch the video and have a go at the tasks:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zrdyvk7

Make notes as you watch the video before completing the

tasks on BBC.

Commas

Commas can be added to make things clearer. Commas to

add extra information. In longer sentences, you can use

commas to separate out extra information (parenthesis) and

make the sentence easier to read.

Commas and clauses

A clause is the building block for a sentence. Commas can be

used to break up sentences that have more than one clause

and make them easier to read.

Activity 3: Add brackets, dashes or commas for

parenthesis.

What does ‘parentheses’ mean?

Brackets, dashes and commas indicate parentheses

(parentheses is the plural of parenthesis).Parenthesis is a

word or clause inserted into a text as an afterthought (or

as extra information. A pair of brackets, commas or dashes

can be used to enclose the extra information or

afterthought.

Use brackets, dashes and commas to show parenthesis

For each of the sentences below, add an extra information

clause (parenthesis) in the spaces. Remember to mark the

start and end of your parenthesis with brackets, commas or

dashes.

Activity 3: Add brackets, dashes or commas for

parenthesis.

We have set helpful tasks on Education City to help with types of clauses, punctuation and sentences structure too!

Activity four: Cover analysis

Look carefully at this front cover and answer the

questions on the following page. You could choose to

have a discussion about you answers instead, or write

down your own detailed answers in your green book.

Cover analysis questions

1. Describe the cover illustration of the novel in one sentence.

2.What scene, character, or setting is depicted on the cover?

3. Describe how the cover illustration relates to the title?

4. Describe what you see in the cover illustration.

5.Who is the person depicted on the cover?

6.What do you think his or her role is in the novel?

7. Why do you think that this person was featured in the

illustration?

8. What objects or minor characters are depicted on the cover

illustration?

9.Why are those objects or people included?

10. What captions or words are included?

Watch and listen carefully to the story using

the following link. As you listen, add any new

information that could be added to your

answers, in a different coloured pencil:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LU2daQ2

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Activity five: Comparing fiction and non-fiction.

Read the caption below.

Have a discussion:

What comparisons can you make between what has

been written here and what you have learned so far

about equality and the fight for this, throughout history.

Think about:

The Civil Rights Movement

The Suffragettes

The Black Lives Matter Protests

Do you think protests are positive?Why?

You could create a thought-shower to help!

Activity six: Adding dialogue (speech) to an

illustration

Look closely at the image above from the book. People

are gathered and marching. Think about the story and

how it tells a story of love and fight for equality.

Spend some time looking closely at what you can see in

the picture. Recreate the drawing and add your own

speech bubbles or thought showers to show some of the

words and thoughts the people may be having. Consider

using the following words to help you build up an

understanding of how they are feeling and what they may

be talking about.

Prejudice Fairness

Judged Acceptance

Love Equal

Hate Fight

Activity seven: Preparing to write a Playscript

You are going to turn a particular part of Pride: The Story of

Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag into a playscript, creating a

scene that could be performed and acted-out with a purpose: to

inform your audience of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag; the

decision to use a rainbow as the symbol for love and equality

and reasons behind this.

Not entirely sure what a ‘Play’ is?

Watch the video and have a go at the

quiz before you begin...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zsn4h39/articles/z24vjty

Plays are written for people to perform. The script or

playscript is a written down version of the play. It uses

dialogue (speech), stage directions and tells the actors how

to say the lines. Many real-life events are used and performed

in a play to help others understand stories by watching and

listening. It helps an audience to understand more easily,

because they can listen to how the performers say certain

words; act or express themselves. Usually, a play has a certain

genre such as: comedy, romance or even horror!

Writing the play however, is usually a little bit trickier. Take a

look:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zsn4h39/articles/zx8kng8

Activity eight: what do I include in a playscript

and what does it look like?

This is how a playscript is usually set out. Click through the next

few slides and write a list of the features as you go; you will need

to know this to write your own playscript.

Activity eight: what do I include in a playscript

and what does it look like?

Activity eight: what do I include in a playscript

and what does it look like?

Activity eight: what do I include in a playscript

and what does it look like?

Take a look at what you have written and go back

through the slides if you think you have missed

something out. Once you are sure you have included

everything, mark it against the checklist on the following

page by ticking your answers. If you’ve missed anything

out – don’t worry – add some of the features you have

missed, to your own checklist!

Features of a Playscript checklist

Helpful ideas to write my playscript

Who could my characters be?

To inform your audience of the

rainbow flag and the story of

Harvey Milk, you may want to

have him as a main character.

You may also want to include

Gilbert Baker, who helped make

and design the flag too.

Alternatively, you might want to

set the scene using protestors

only, and through their dialogue,

share the story of love and the

fight for equality.

Where could my characters be?

You have numerous locations for your scene setting! You

could be having a discussing as you join the march; in the

workshop creating the flag; on the streets of San Francisco

protesting; reading the terrible news in the news paper

about Harvey and the mayor; carrying the flag through New

York city or observing the colours of the Whitehouse in

2015.You can use these or think of one of your own!

What could they say?

Look back at your notes from activity six for ideas. Re-

watch the video and imagine you were going to tell

someone the story: what could you say?

Activity nine: Planning your playscript

Use the template below to plan your playscript scene. You can

copy this out into your own writing book roughly, and make

changes as you go. Please write a minimum of one scene, but feel

free to write multiple scenes, should you wish to.

Activity ten: writing my playscript

Have a go at writing your playscript. You might want to create a key

and use different coloured pencils, like in the example given

previously, to ensure you have included all of the features. You may

also want to draft your playscript first and read through it. Perhaps

send a copy to a friend and as them to check it against the checklist

and you could do the same for them in return.