Homework due Friday, 1st July

Topic: Geography

 

Use your research skills to find out about biomes. Create a mini poster/write a paragraph on one these biomes: Rainforest, Dessert or Savannah. What makes that biome special? What is the climate like? What animals and plants are found there?

 

Literacy: Poetry

 

Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow.

Troglodytic Owner-Occupier

Old flier with a bellyful of fire 
that's hotter than a deep-fat frier,   
your tongue is tougher than a tyre, 
thicker and harder and drier. 
You've the appetite of a vampire. 

Old flier with a bellyful of fire,
you're driven by desire to acquire.
You trickster, rogue and liar.
You've eyes like snakes', but slyer.
They're sharp as thorns on briar.

Old flier with a bellyful of fire,
mister mayhem-multiplier.
Your cry's a terrifier,
the sound of a suffering choir
entangled in barbed wire.

Old flier with a bellyful of fire,
soaring higher than church and spire.
You're lord and magnifier,
his dragonship, esquire,
arrogant, for all to admire.
By Nick Toczek

What do all the words at the end of each line rhyme with?
How has repetition been used in the poem?
Can you find examples of alliteration in the poem?
How many verses are there?
How does the narrator of the poem feel about dragons?  How can you tell?
How many stars would you give this out of 5? Why?

Science and PSHE:

Please could you bring in a photograph of yourself as a baby before Thursday of next week. This could be an actual photograph or a photocopied/printed version. We will of course return all original photographs at the end of the week.