Just To Keep You Going...

English

Gandalf’s advertisement for adventurous people to join his quest needs to make the whole thing

sound attractive—and not dangerous or scary—if he is to persuade them to come with him. Can

you help Gandalf make these statements sound inviting rather than terrifying? Gandalf has had

a go at the first one:

You will meet lots of aggressive dwarves who will eat all your food.

You will make lots of interesting new friends who would love to join you for dinner!

There are hungry trolls hiding in the countryside, waiting to eat you!

If you go near the dangerous Misty Mountains, you will be captured by angry goblins.

If you aren’t good at riddles, Gollum will eat you.

Watch out for Beorn, the skin-changer. If he’s a bear, he will eat you.

Mirkwood is a creepy forest, full of giant spiders that like to wrap visitors in webs.

The only way to escape the wood-elf king is to take a terrifying ride in a barrel along the river.

Smaug is an alarming dragon who broods over his treasure and breathes fire at anything in his

path.

Gandalf thinks he is now ready to begin writing his advertisement… but he can’t think of a

paragraph to start with. Could you help him by writing the first paragraph?

Good morning, Year 6 geniuses! We hope you are all keeping safe and well and are enjoying the activities we are setting. Please let us know how you are getting on, or if you don’t understand something. We would love to see photos of you or copies of the work you produce as we hope to make a gallery for Year 6 to enjoy.

Think of one or two rhetorical

questions to start the paragraph.

Think about the devices and

techniques we’ve looked at so

far this week.

Remember to include the

point, or destination, of

the quest in this

paragraph.

Don’t write the whole

advert today as we will

be continuing tomorrow.

Just To Keep You Going...

Puzzle of the Day—Picture Equations

Maths We know you’ve drawn bar charts quite a few times so we’re hoping you’ll manage this even if you only have lined paper. Today’s task looks at the big difference that can be made by making a small change to your bar chart’s scale. Meet Larry—he’s an ice cream salesman. Here are his sales figures for the first eight months of the year:

Now make two bar charts of Larry’s sales figures. The first should have a scale starting at 160 and going up in intervals of 2. The second should have a scale starting at 100 and going up in intervals of 10. They should look something like these.

Once you’ve drawn the graphs, answer the questions. 1) Which might Larry want to present to his boss? Why? 2) Which graph would support his boss’s view that he is lazy and should be sacked? Why? Now that you’ve seen how scales can affect the story a graph tells, try creating 2 bar charts for this data. One should support Thorin’s view that Bombur is greedy. The other should support Bombur’s view that he is not particularly any more greedy than any other dwarf.

Think carefully about what scale to use for each graph and where to start the scale. You might want to sketch them first to get an idea of how they might look. What do you notice about how scale choice for bar graphs affects the way the data is presented?

Dwarf Bombur Balin Dwalin Oin Gloin

No. of cakes eaten 328 302 312 295 317