Children return to school Mon 8th April

Retelling ‘A Monster Calls’ in 6 Red

In our English work, we have been reading the text and watching the film, A Monster Calls. Today, we read a text based on the ‘house’ scene and we had the opportunity to retell this scene. We focused on:

– Use of voice

– Use of language

– Accurate description

– Tone

– Building suspense

– Language use

– Entertain the audience

You produced some excellent work! You all should be proud!Β 

Please listen to some of our work.Β 

 

Have a think about what you have enjoyed in these lessons so far and what you have learnt. I look forward to your responses.

Well done for a great first week back!

Have a lovely weekend everyone!Β 

35 responses to “Retelling ‘A Monster Calls’ in 6 Red”

  1. Safa Khan

    This week I have enjoyed when we were acting out most of the seen because I think I learnt a lot from that and I hope that in the future we could also do more practical and fun things like drama.
    This week I also enjoyed coming up with sentences with figurative language because I think that it made a huge impact in our writing when we wrote our paragraphs thank you.

  2. Hanna Khan

    I have enjoyed it when we could identify the language features in a text of A Monster Calls. I have enjoyed the book and the move and the film . I know that Patrick Ness was born on 17 October 1971 in Virgenia. I also know that he had wrote 9 books. And one of them is what we are already reading.

  3. Sahrah Khan

    I have really enjoined doing the activity’s the teachers have set up for us.I am really exited to pick out scene from the film and book and rewrite it.We are going to also send it to the author Patrick Ness.

  4. Martins Camara

    I really enjoyed the book , movie and the retelling the story. Although in the movie Conor’s mother died from a terrible illness.

  5. Nadia Mohamed

    Thank to all the teachers who provide this

    1. Nadia Mohamed

      provided

  6. Nadia Mohamed

    I have enjoyed last week because i used all of the feature the main part was to secure my learning and aim better.During this week i learnt about new things such as making progress and become one of the best person who really cares about they’re work and aim for a better level.This week was a fantastic week because we did drama and i was shocked when Mr Patel put my groups work on the blog but the main thing is that i very much understood.I also loved the movie as i watched it before.My favourite part is when he messes the house and the sad part is when the monster cant save Connors moms life.So he lives without a mom which is pretty sad.I also loved to research about the author who is called Patrick Ness. Here because younger one are going to read this i am going to tell you a little clue about the author.this author done a movie but 6 Red have the book and it is also in the Library.The purpose of the book is to entertain kids to like the movie.He wrote the book because his illustrater died and he wrote that book because she passed away.The book is different to the movie.

    1. Mr Patel

      This is lovely to read, Nadia. You spoke clearly with good expression. Well done!

  7. Nithusha Naguleswaran

    So far this week has been fantastic! I enjoyed learning about Patrick Ness and his life. Patrick Ness is the author of our class book, which is call “A Monster Calls.” A true fact about Patrick Ness is that he was born on the 17th of October 1971. So this year he will be aged as 47. This was my favorite lesson because it allowed me to develop my researching skills more. By writing stories in the future will make me feel proud and feel as if I am a good writer. This is not just good for year 6 but for little one as they need to develop as well. This book will inspire me to write like this in my unaided writing.

    1. Mr Patel

      Your comments are well thought out and well written. I am glad you are enjoying this unit!

  8. Kayden-Shai Roberts

    I have enjoyed watching the film and the drama . Also I have enjoyed Learning about Patrick Ness ,who has published 18 books. I have learnt about emotion between different characters in A Monster Calls.

    1. Mr Patel

      Looking forward to seeing your writing! You have worked really hard! Well done.

  9. Mohammed Sherifdeen

    i really enjoyed leaning about a monster calls it was great fun i also enjoyed watching the film even if we havent finished watching it.

    1. Mr Patel

      Don’t worry…we will finish it as well as our class book. Glad you are enjoying it.

  10. Abir Hussain

    Great writing guyes

    1. Mr Patel

      Well done for commenting. Maybe you could read the text in the homework blog I put on and share your thoughts on that. It will help with your learning when you are back.

  11. Salma Hussain

    My favourite part had to be when we were finding information about the author of this book because if you are going to read a book you wanna find out where they got this idea how they planned it and many more. Also I liked when we did the voice overs because when we were reading the sections you tone and expression it was like we were there in the story experiencing this with Conor. When we were identifying language features it was good because it not only got us and idea of what we were expected to write but it helped us to make sure we not only make some of these things up but get inspiration from the official book.

    1. Mr Patel

      A good answer as always Salma. You gained lots in the past several months. Remember to include all of these ideas in your writing.

  12. Usman Khan

    I have learnt many thing that I could use in my writing. When reading the texts I found out that they have you show not turn to build tension and suspense they also use the range of punctuation to build to also build suspense. They used a range of sentence openers to not bore the reader and interests them in many ways. They have describe things very well and they use one point per paragraph do not confuse the reader.

    1. Mr Patel

      Good lad! Good points!

  13. Haleema Asif

    I enjoyed this week so much! One of my favourite parts in this week was reading the book because we got to identify really good descriptive language that we can use in our own writing. I have learnt to retrieve and identify descriptive phrase and good language and explain why it is effective when reading it.

    1. Mr Patel

      I’m glad you are enjoying it. I’m enjoying it too!

  14. Louis Sanders

    I really enjoyed that week, listening to the book and also watching the film!!!

    1. Mr Patel

      Thanks, Louis. Looking forward to your writing!

      1. Louis Sanders

        Thanks Mr Patel!!! :)

  15. Eesa Akhalwaya

    I have learnt a range of different things like about Patrick ness the author of the book.example:his first book wa called the crash of hennington for adults.I have also identified language features in a text which was fun.Also a have been able to identify different themes in a story.Also I have been able to identify how the characters feel in the story using evidence.i have enjoyed the week.

    I am looking forward to writing a scene of a monster calls

    By

    Eesa

    1. Mr Patel

      Your speaking and drama skills have been excellent. You should be proud. Can’t wait for your writing!

  16. Elyass Daud

    I enjoyed the book and the movie. I’m sad to see that we have to leave this behind. I was really excited when we acted out the scenes. I could one day, pass this book down to my children.

    1. Mr Patel

      We have another 2 weeks of this left!πŸ‘πŸΌπŸ˜€

    2. Inaaya Khan

      I agree Elyass, I believe that this book/movie could be inspirational to our children as it would be quite extraordinary seeing a book back from when we were littile!

      1. Inaaya Khan

        *little*

  17. Lyba Ghafoor

    i have enjoyed this week because i could find about why he did write the story the monster calls and i will tell you he did not have the idea of writing a story but he knew a auther who was writing this story and she had died of cancer and it was sad to hear but that was what had inspired him too write this story and the auther is Patric Ness and he had wrote 9 books and the auther who had died had wrote 4 books and this would have been her 5.i enjoyed watching the film it was fantastic and i enjoyed lerning about the themes and i had a very great image un my head why the auther had also wrote it this way

    done by Lyba

    1. Mr Patel

      Nice comments, Lyba. I have been proud of your work recently. Keep working hard and you will have a fantastic year! Good girl!

  18. Hamdia Darwish

    I have enjoyed it when we could identify language features in a text of A Monster Calls.I liked it when we did this because we could get some ideas from that text to use for our A Monster Calls writing.I have learnt that Patrick Ness was born in Virginia.

    1. Mr Patel

      Your work was excellent, Hamdia. Looking forward to you using some great language in your writing.

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