Howdy, partner! Choose at least three of these deeeeeelicious menu items to chow down on at home to support your English studies. You need to choose at least one of each course and try and challenge yourself by going for the Man Vs. (Brain) Food Challenge at the bottom… Yeee-hahh!

Starters / Mains / Desserts
Not sure of when to use there/their/they’re? Get your weres and wheres mixed up? Complete the activities on homophones on the blog or ask Miss for a sheet. / Write the official report outlining the details of the attempted theft of Mr Sir’s water truck. Include where and when it happened, who was involved and witness statements. /
Create Camp Green lake (a 3D model, a painting or any other creative interpretation) Use evidence from the text to make it as realistic as possible.
Ask Miss for a punctuation practice
sheet on one of the following topics:
·  Semi-colons and colons
·  Direct Speech Punctuation
·  Parenthesis
·  Accurate use of full stops
Pick the one that you think you need the most! / Write a Camp Green Lake Survival Guide/leaflet for new arrivals at the camp. Give top tips be informative and use evidence from the text. Remember to make it bright, colourful and easy to read. Use presentational devices including: text boxes, bullet points, headings and sub headings. / Write a coded letter, outlining an escape plan from the camp, from X-Ray to another camp mate using pig latin(move the first letter of every word to the end of the word and add ‘ay’ eg Holes = Oles-Hay)
Ake-May Ure-say He-tay Arden-Way An’t-cay Ead-Ray t-Iay!
Vocabulary challenge! The following words appear in ‘Holes’: Preposterous, barren, perseverance, desolate, intensity Either write a short story or separate sentences using the words correctly. /
Create a stuck sheet to help other students write fantastic PEA paragraphs. Make it attractive and informative, including advice and possible sentence starters.
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Create a set of Top Trumps cards for: Stanley, The Warden, Zero, Mr Sir, X Ray and Mr Pendanski. Use facts we know about them from the novel.
Complete the activities on ‘parts of speech and narrative devices’ to identify and practise using things like nouns, pronouns, similes and metaphors. Ask Miss for the sheet or look on the blog in the year 7 section / Research the author, Louis Sachar,
and create a biography of his work.
You could either write this as a
fact-file or an informative poster about the author’s life and work. / Create alternative front and back covers for the book. Include a picture, title and Author’s name on the front cover and a blurb, positive quotes from people who have read the book, bar code, price and publisher on the back.