This week we are going to create entries for the local Harwich Festival 2020. The content of the entries this year is a digital writing project reflecting their feelings raised by lockdown. Further details are attached here.

In order to support the Class with their entries this week’s work will focus on lockdown poetry and writing.

This week we are going to create entries for the local Harwich Festival 2020. The content of the entries this year is a digital writing project reflecting their feelings raised by lockdown. Further details are attached here.

In order to support the Class with their entries this week’s work will focus on lockdown poetry and writing.

Monday 

Lockdown Poetry 

Lockdown Limerick - watch the clip below and design your own 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z4mmn39/articles/zw3yw6f

Here is an example: 

There once was a virus called corona

It was not a loner

Like fire it spread

Sending many to their bed

We’ve never known’a virus like corona.

So here’s the changes that went into place

It effected the whole human race

2 metres we stood apart

This was just the start

We needed to stay in our own space.

We stayed in day upon day

To keep conrona virus at bay

We had to stay home

We could not roam

For if we did corona would stay.

Just once a week we would pop out

Into the supermarkets with not many about

We went for our essential supplies

It looked like everyone was in disguise

Masks, gloves and hand gel throughout.

 Tuesday 

Edit and add to your limerick. 

Type it up and explore different fonts and colours to emphasize your rhyming lines. 

Wednesday

Write a recount, diary extract or story about the virus. 

Focus today on perfecting your introduction - how did the virus come/ start what were your thoughts and feelings? 

THINK HOW WILL I MAKE MINE STAND OUT FROM ANYONE ELSE'S? ......... 

Thursday 

Think about the problems that were caused by the virus and how this was solved. Please include as many writing devices as possible: Noun phrases, wow words and interesting vocabulary, similes, metaphors, varied sentence openers, synonyms for said, great adverbs to describe a doing word, alliteration and include conjunctions and the correct punctuation and tense. Use commas in a list, inverted commas for speech, include a rhetorical question and exclamation starting with how or what! 

Friday 

Edit and improve: do you need to add any punctuation? Could you search for some more interesting words? Have you included all the correct punctuation. 

Type it up or complete typing.