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English. Week Beginning 6.4.2020

This week you will be writing a biography of Queen Elizabeth II.

There will be four lessons. Some lessons, like the research, may take you longer than others.

• Lesson 1: What is a biography

• Lesson 2: Research about Elizabeth II

• Lesson 3: Fronted adverbials.

• Lesson 4: Writing your biography.

LO: To understand the features of a biography.

Meet it: I can recognise the difference between biography and autobiography.

Beat it: I can find examples word level features of a biography

Smash it: I can find magpie words and phrases that can be applied to my own biography.

Lesson 1: What is a biography?

What is a biography.

• A biography is an account of somebody’s life written by a different person.

• If you were to write about the life of David Walliams, that would be a biography.

• If you were to write about your own life, that would be an autobiography.

Biography and autobiography.• Which of these texts is a biography and which is

an autobiography?

• How do you know?

Below are the features of a biography.

Choose five features from the previous slide and see if you can find an example of each one in the biography below.

Write an example of each of the five in your book. You can use these later.

Now answer the questions on the next slide that are about this text.

Questions about the Bolt biography.

• What tense is most of the text written in? Why is that?

• Why did the author start with a question?

• Look at the paragraph that starts ‘Usain St. Leo Bolt once said…’. What is the job of this paragraph?

• What did Usain Bolt love more than sprinting?

• Who was his coach?

LO: To organise information into paragraphs.

Meet it: I can sort information that I find into groups according to subject.

Beat it: I can take notes that are not too long but give key information.

Smash it: I can use a range of sources and make a note of them.

Lesson 2: Research

In your biography about Elizabeth II, what parts of her life will you focus on? These will become your paragraphs.

• In your book, create three sections or boxes Give each box a heading. Headings you could have are:

• Early life

• Time as Queen

• Family

• Significant events

• Rise to the throne

• When you find information, make a note of it under the heading that it is most suited to.

https://www.biography.com/royalty/queen-elizabeth-ii

https://kids.kiddle.co/Elizabeth_IILook at these examples of biographies. They might help with possible headings for your paragraphs and for research.

This one is harder to understand as it was written for adults but it has some good information.

Making notes

Your notes need to be short but also have enough information.

All this information…Elizabeth II is Queen and is interested in the running of her countries, but she does not tell the governments what to do. She has regular meetings with people from her governments, but it is they who run the countries. She performs ceremonies for the governments, gives out honours, and visits and supports many charities.

Would becomeDoesn’t tell government what to do. She performs ceremonies and charities.

Sources (not sauces)

Where does your information come from?

It is a good idea to make a note of the websites and the books you use. This is so people can check that you have got your facts from a trusted place.

Also, a responsible writer will check their facts. Do each of your sources say the same thing? If you don’t check, you could be writing down something that is not true.

You now need to research Elizabeth II

• Try and use more than one website and, if you have any books that would be useful, use those. Make a note somewhere of all the websites and books that you took information from. These will be your sources.

Example websites• https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/discover/history/monarchy/facts-about-the-queen-

elizabeth-ii/

• https://kids.kiddle.co/Elizabeth_II

• https://www.dkfindout.com/uk/history/kings-and-queens/elizabeth-ii/

• https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/44370212

LO: To recognise and use fronted adverbials.

Meet it: I can recognise a fronted adverbial

Beat it: I can use my own fronted adverbials in a sentence

Smash it: I can use a range of sources and make a note of them.

Lesson 3: Fronted Adverbials

What are fronted adverbials?

First, you need to know what a verb is.

A verb is an action or a ‘doing word’. Every sentence has to have a verb.Some examples of verbs are:

walk / walked / walkingshout / shouted / shoutingSusan flew through the air in her parachute.

Verbs change depending on the tense.

Adverbials add information to the verb.

• Susan flew gracefully through the air in her parachute.

Fronted adverbials are words or phrases at the beginning of a sentence, that add information to the verb that follows.

• Gracefully, Susan flew through the air in her parachute.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zwwp8mn/articles/zp937p3

LO: To write a biographyMeet it: I can group information into paragraphs

Beat it: I can use a range of fronted adverbials.

Smash it: I can punctuate my work accurately.

Lesson 4: Writing your biography

What you need to include in your biography:

• Paragraphs

• Fronted adverbials

• All the appropriate punctuation for year 4 if you can. This includes:• Capital letters (don’t forget for names) and full stops.

• Commas after those fronted adverbials.

• Question marks and exclamation marks if you need them.

• Speech punctuation if you are quoting someone.

• Some pictures would be nice (drawn or from the internet).

How you will set it out.

• Paragraph 1: Introduction. Who is the Queen? Imagine you are explaining this to someone who has never heard of her.

• Paragraph 2

• Paragraph 3 These paragraphs will be from your research.

• Paragraph 4

• Paragraph 5: Conclusion. In a couple of sentences, explain why she is important today and in the future.

How to present your work:

• It’s up to you how you create your biography. You could choose to write it in your book or use any of the following:

• PowerPoint or Keynote• Popplet (a mind map app)

• Word or Pages• Adobe Spark Pages (an app used to create webpages).

…or any other way that you think would be appropriate.

If you can, we would love for you to send them to us at

year4@kfos.co.ukIn the email subject, include your name and ‘biography project’.