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Survival: from stones to steel!
Year 5
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Tuesday 2nd June 2020 Session 1
35 Mins
Reading comprehension
Mixed VIPERS with Mr Hudson Bad Beginnings – Lemony Snicket – Ch 12
Session 2
45 Mins
Maths
with Mr Hudson
Session 3
30 Mins
Writing
with Mr Hudson
Session 1
1 Hour
Connected Currciulum
Design and Technology Focus
Session 1 Subject: Reading Comprehension – Mixed VIPERS - Bad Beginnings – Lemony Snicket – Ch 12. Approx. Time: 15 Mins Reading and 20 Mins Questions Recording: Please complete in your exercise books in full sentences or click the link/scan the QR code below to respond using Microsoft Office forms electronically.
What to do first: Read Chapter 12 of Bad Beginnings – Lemony Snicket
CHAPTERTwelve
As Violet and Klaus Baudelaire stood, still intheir nightgown and pajamas, backstage atCount Olaf’s theater, they were of two minds,a phrase which here means “they felt twodifferent ways at the same time.” On onehand, they were of course filled with dread.From the murmur of voices they heard onthe stage, the two Baudelaire orphans couldtell
that the performance of The Marvelous Mar-riage had begun, and it seemed too late to doanything to foil Count Olaf’s plan. On theother hand, however, they were fascinated,as they had never been backstage at a theat-rical production and there was so much tosee. Members of Count Olaf’s theater troupehurried this way and that, too busy to evenglance at the children. Three very short menwere carrying a large flat piece of wood,painted to look like a living room. The twowhite-faced women were arranging flowersin a vase that from far away appeared to bemarble, but close up looked more like card-board. An important-looking man with wartsall over his face was adjusting enormous lightfixtures. As the children peeked onstage, theycould see Count Olaf, in his fancy suit, de-claiming some lines from the play, just as thecurtain came down, controlled by a womanwith very short hair who was pulling on along rope, attached to a pulley. Despite theirfear, you see, the two older Baudelaires werevery interested
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in what was going on, and only wished thatthey were not involved in any way.
As the curtain fell, Count Olaf strode off-stage and looked at the children. “It’s the endof Act Two! Why aren’t the orphans in theircostumes?” he hissed to the two white-facedwomen. Then, as the audience broke intoapplause, his angry expression turned to oneof joy, and he walked back onstage. Gestur-ing to the short-haired woman to raise thecurtain, he strode to the exact center of thestage and took elaborate bows as the curtaincame up. He waved and blew kisses to theaudience as the curtain came down again,and then his face once again filled with anger.“Intermission is only ten minutes,” he said,“and then the children must perform. Getthem into costumes, quickly!”
Without a word the two white-faced wo-men grabbed Violet and Klaus by the wristsand led them into a dressing room. The roomwas dusty but shiny, covered in mirrors andtiny lights so the actors could see better toput on their
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makeup and wigs, and there were peoplecalling out to one another and laughing asthey changed their clothes. One white-facedwoman yanked Violet’s arms up and pulledher nightgown off over her head, and thrusta dirty, lacy white dress at her to put on.Klaus, meanwhile, had his pajamas removedby the other white-faced woman, and washurriedly stuffed into a blue sailor suit thatitched and made him look like a toddler.
“Isn’t this exciting?” said a voice, and thechildren turned to see Justice Strauss, alldressed up in her judge’s robes andpowdered wig. She was clutching a smallbook. “You children look wonderful!”
“So do you,” Klaus said. “What’s thatbook?”
“Why, those are my lines,” Justice Strausssaid. “Count Olaf told me to bring a law bookand read the real wedding ceremony, in or-der to make the play as realistic as possible.All you have to say, Violet, is ‘I do,’ but I haveto make
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quite a speech. This is going to be such fun.”“You know what would be fun,” Violet
said carefully, “is if you changed your linesaround, just a little.”
Klaus’s face lit up. “Yes, Justice Strauss. Becreative. There’s no reason to stick to thelegal ceremony. It’s not as if it’s a real wed-ding.”
Justice Strauss frowned. “I don’t knowabout that, children,” she said. “I think itwould be best to follow Count Olaf’s instruc-tions. After all, he’s in charge.”
“Justice Strauss!” a voice called. “JusticeStrauss! Please report to the makeup artist!”
“Oh my word! I get to wear makeup.”Justice Strauss had on a dreamy expression,as if she were about to be crowned queen,instead of just having some powders andcreams smeared on her face. “Children, Imust go. See you onstage, my dears!”
Justice Strauss ran off, leaving the childrento finish changing into their costumes. Oneof the
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white-faced women put a flowered headdresson Violet, who realized in horror that thedress she had changed into was a bridalgown. The other woman put a sailor cap onKlaus, who gazed in one of the mirrors, aston-ished at how ugly he looked. His eyes metthose of Violet, who was looking in the mir-ror as well.
“What can we do?” Klaus said quietly.“Pretend to be sick? Maybe they’d call off theperformance.”
“Count Olaf would know what we wereup to,” Violet replied glumly.
“Act Three of The Marvelous Marriage byAl Funcoot is about to begin!” a man with aclipboard shouted. “Everyone, please, get inyour places for Act Three!”
The actors rushed out of the room, and thewhite-faced women grabbed the children andhustled them out after them. The backstagearea was in complete pandemonium—a wordwhich here means “actors and stagehandsrunning around attending to last-minute de-tails.” The
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bald man with the long nose hurried by thechildren, then stopped himself, looked at Vi-olet in her wedding dress, and smirked.
“No funny stuff,” he said to them, wag-gling a bony finger. “Remember, when yougo out there, just do exactly what you’resupposed to do. Count Olaf will be holdinghis walkie-talkie during the entire act, and ifyou do even one thing wrong, he’ll be givingSunny a call up there in the tower.”
“Yes, yes,” Klaus said bitterly. He was tiredof being threatened in the same way, overand over.
“You’d better do exactly as planned,” theman said again.
“I’m sure they will,” said a voice suddenly,and the children turned to see Mr. Poe,dressed very formally and accompanied byhis wife. He smiled at the children and cameover to shake their hands. “Polly and I justwanted to tell you to break a leg.”
“What?” Klaus said, alarmed.
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“That’s a theater term,” Mr. Poe explained,“meaning ‘good luck on tonight’s perform-ance.’ I’m glad that you children have adjus-ted to life with your new father and are par-ticipating in family activities.”
“Mr. Poe,” Klaus said quickly, “Violet andI have something to tell you. It’s very import-ant.”
“What is it?” Mr. Poe said.“Yes,” said Count Olaf, “what is it you
have to tell Mr. Poe, children?”Count Olaf had appeared, seemingly out
of nowhere, and his shiny eyes glared at thechildren meaningfully. In one hand, Violetand Klaus could see, he held a walkie-talkie.
“Just that we appreciate all you’ve donefor us, Mr. Poe,” Klaus said weakly. “That’sall we wanted to say.”
“Of course, of course,” Mr. Poe said, pat-ting him on the back. “Well, Polly and I hadbetter take our seats. Break a leg,Baudelaires!”
“I wish we could break a leg,” Klauswhispered to Violet, and Mr. Poe left.
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“You will, soon enough,” Count Olaf said,pushing the two children toward the stage.Other actors were milling about, finding theirplaces for Act Three, and Justice Strauss wasoff in a corner, practicing her lines from herlaw book. Klaus took a look around the stage,wondering if anyone there could help. Thebald man with the long nose took Klaus’shand and led him to one side.
“You and I will stand here for the durationof the act. That means the whole thing.”
“I know what the word ‘duration’ means,”Klaus said.
“No nonsense,” the bald man said. Klauswatched his sister in her wedding gown takeher place next to Count Olaf as the curtainrose. Klaus heard applause from the audienceas Act Three of The Marvelous Marriage began.
It will be of no interest to you if I describethe action of this insipid—the word “insipid”here means “dull and foolish”—play by AlFuncoot, because it was a dreadful play andof
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no real importance to our story. Various act-ors and actresses performed very dull dia-logue and moved around the set, as Klaustried to make eye contact with them and seeif they would help. He soon realized that thisplay must have been chosen merely as anexcuse for Olaf’s evil plan, and not for itsentertainment value, as he sensed the audi-ence losing interest and moving around intheir seats. Klaus turned his attention to theaudience to see whether any of them wouldnotice that something was afoot, but the waythe wart-faced man had arranged the lightsprevented Klaus from seeing the faces in theauditorium, and he could only make out thedim outlines of the people in the audience.Count Olaf had a great number of very longspeeches, which he performed with elaborategestures and facial expressions. No oneseemed to notice that he held a walkie-talkiethe entire time.
Finally, Justice Strauss began speaking,and Klaus saw that she was reading directlyfrom the
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legal book. Her eyes were sparkling and herface flushed as she performed onstage for thefirst time, too stagestruck to realize she wasa part of Olaf’s plan. She spoke on and onabout Olaf and Violet caring for each otherin sickness and in health, in good times andbad, and all of those things that are said tomany people who decide, for one reason oranother, to get married.
When she finished her speech, JusticeStrauss turned to Count Olaf and asked, “Doyou take this woman to be your lawfullywedded wife?”
“I do,” Count Olaf said, smiling. Klaus sawViolet shudder.
“Do you,” Justice Strauss said, turning toViolet, “take this man to be your lawfullywedded husband?”
“I do,” Violet said. Klaus clenched his fists.His sister had said “I do” in the presence ofa judge. Once she signed the official docu-ment, the wedding was legally valid. Andnow, Klaus could see that Justice Strauss wastaking the
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document from one of the other actors andholding it out to Violet to sign.
“Don’t move an inch,” the bald manmuttered to Klaus, and Klaus thought of poorSunny, dangling at the top of the tower, andstood still as he watched Violet take a longquill pen from Count Olaf. Violet’s eyes werewide as she looked down at the document,and her face was pale, and her left hand wastrembling as she signed her name.
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Next: Watch my video to help you with mixed VIPERS. Questions:
1. Pg 142 - Define ‘elaborate’ 2. Pg 138 - What does it mean if somewhere is ‘pandemonium’? 3. Pg 137 - Why do you think they wanted Justice Strauss to ‘change her lines around’? 4. Pg 140 - Why do you think Count Olaf is so kind in front of Mr Poe? 5. Pg 143 – 144 - Explain why Klaus could not go on stage during the marriage scene.
Session 2 Subject: Maths – Classifying types of angles. Approx. Time: 10 mins exploring video tutorials and 15 mins completing the questions Recording: Please complete these in your exercise book What to do first: Watch my tutorial video of exploring the different types of angles. Need a little more explanation: Check out this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzAGoErwAxg
Questions: Write down if each of the angles are, acute, a right angle, obtuse or reflex.
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2) 3)
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Challenge:
Activity: Times Table Rehearsal Online: https://ttrockstars.com/ Approx. Time: 20 Mins Practice Recording: Recorded online and checked by teacher remotely.
Session 3 Subject: English – News report phrases Approx. Time: 10 mins exploring the video and 20 mins writing Recording: Complete in your exercise book or rehearse verbally. What to do first: Watch my video identifying news report phrases. Next: Choose one of the options which were mentioned yesterday and decide what your news report will be about.
1. A news report based on this image:
2. A news report about ‘The Last Game from Nike’ (if you have a craving for football)
which can be found here: https://www.literacyshed.com/uploads/1/2/5/7/12572836/nike_football__the_last_game_ft._ronaldo_neymar_jr._rooney_zlatan_iniesta___more_-_youtube_841.mp4
3. Choose your own story to create a news report on. Your Task: Use some of the phrases below to create sentences linked to your news report. Remember, some of them may not be suitable for your story. You can write these down or just practice saying these out loud to yourself or a family member.
Journalistic Phrases
It was discovered that...
According to witnesses,...
As more reports are know, it would appear...
Eyewitnesses suggested that...
After early, initial investigations, it would appear that
It has been reported that...
Despite this claim...
Bystanders declared...
As further investigations continue to be carried out,____
CCTV footage from the local_______ appears to suggest that...
Evidence collected by the police forensic teams begin to imply...
Session 4 Subject: Connected Curriculum Approx. Time: 60 Mins Information: Using your connected curriculum menu, please complete approx. 4 of the activities listed (or something else you can think of linked to our topic area) this half-term. You can complete these activities independently, or as a family. We are excited to see what you have learned about and created.
Answers Session 1 Subject: Reading Comprehension – Mixed VIPERS - Bad Beginnings – Lemony Snicket – Ch 12.
1. Pg 142 - Define ‘elaborate’ Very detailed and complicated in design.
2. Pg 138 - What does it mean if somewhere is ‘pandemonium’? If somewhere is wild and noisy and there is often some confusion.
3. Pg 137 - Why do you think they wanted Justice Strauss to ‘change her lines around’? The wanted Justice Strauss to change her lines so that the marriage would not be legal and this would stop Count Olaf getting his hands on the children’s fortune.
4. Pg 140 - Why do you think Count Olaf is so kind in front of Mr Poe? I think Count Olaf pretends to be kind in front of Mr Poe so that he won’t suspect his wicked plan and try to stop it.
5. Pg 143 – 144 - Explain why Klaus could not go on stage during the marriage scene. Klaus couldn’t go on stage because his sister Sunny was still in danger. If he had have gone on stage to stop the play, Sunny would be in great danger. .
Session 2 Subject: Maths – Classifying types of angles. 1) Obtuse 2) Right Angle 3) Acute 4) Obtuse 5) Acute 6) Right Angle 7) Obtuse 8) Reflex