English

Thursday 11^th February 2021

WALT: Write an explanation text

You will need your work that you annotated yesterday.

Write up your notes to produce a fully formed explanation that answers this question in detail:

How does an Ancient Egyptian farmer use the seasons to plan for a plentiful harvest?

Use your notes to write your explanation in full sentences and clear paragraphs. There is a guide to the layout in resources.

Ensure you include: Red – challenge 1; Red and orange – challenge 2; red, orange and green – challenge 3.

• A question for the heading,
• Your opening paragraph introducing your subject,
• Subheadings,
• Clear paragraphs,
• Causal conjuctions to give reasons,
• Time conjunctions,
• Exciting sentences,
• Show off words,
• A glossary explaining technical language,
• A conclusion/ summary answering your question

Try to illustrate each paragraph with a picture that helps the reader understand your explanation – pictures can be hand drawn or found online.

Please don’t rush today’s writing task.  If you find it is taking you longer than 1 hour, use tomorrow’s time for English to complete it.

Send whatever you have completed today to me to receive feedback you can use tomorrow.