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3. 4,784 ÷ 16

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Shakespearean SonnetEmbers glowing silently at bedtime,

Farriner, the baker, never saw it,The spark which flew from fire to fuel so prime,

Bore a blaze so great we can’t ignore it, Scorching, crackling, gorging on wood,

The long Summer had dried the city’s walls,Smoke clung and cloaked the town like Death’s own hood,

Hear screams and cries as every building falls.For days on end the blaze sacked the city,The citizens distraught and seeking peace,

A sacrifice was made with no pity:A swathe of homes destroyed to make it cease,

The fire died, though the remnants burned for weeks,A warning left in time for him who seeks.

LimerickLondon quickly was filling with flames, Sparks

were hissing as they hit the Thames, ‘Who did it?’ folks cried,

(Only six or so died),And old Tom is who everyone blames!

The city was not well planned;Houses built, stacked higher,Ever closer to one another.Grabbing space in London, the push for more, left a Recipe for the perfect feast for fire.Everyone ignored the regulations meant for safety, ‘Ah, no one else obeys them!’The attitude filling London wasFuel.Ignition, so small, so insignificant, Revealed the risks the city ignored, Every street a fuse waiting to be lit. Onward! Onward!Fire, driven on by the wind,Like an army let in through the gates, Overwhelmed the city.No one is richer or poorer when faced with fire, Destruction does not care for social class,Only for the fuel to feed its hunger.No lessons learned; still fires come to pass.

HaikuBright tongues lick night sky,

Belching smoke, coughing sparks high; Consuming the streets.

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Free VerseFingers clawing,Scraping the city and rending street after street, Grasping for new buildings to claim.Glowing, striking orange and red,With yellow-white tips flicking up into the sky,Flicking.Flickering.Flashing in micro-explosions as wood hisses and pops,Dry as a bone,London left like a graveyard,Barely-standing skeletons of what life once was.When the beast dies, leaving the last trails of smoke,Look on the scene, and remember the fury that ignorance awoke.

Focus: comparisons between different types of poetry and looking at patterns.1. In the haiku, which part of the body does the poet use to personify the fire? What is the

effect of this?2. The free verse poem has no rhymes until the final two lines. What is the effect of

finishing the poem with a rhyming couplet? 3. How does the free verse poet use death imagery to move from burning wood to the

ruins the fire leaves behind? 4. Is the limerick more or less serious than the other poems? 5. What other word or phrase could you use instead of ‘bore’ in the sonnet?6. Why does the word ‘sacked’ make it sound as though the fire is like an invading army? 7. What is the message spelled out by the acrostic poem? 8. Which is your favourite of these poems? Why?

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PIPRe-watch Alma – a short filmhttps://www.literacyshed.com/alma.html

Think back to your work from last week, including your plan.Today, you will write the first half of your Alma story. Write up until the point that Alma enters the shop.Here is a reminder of the TOOLs that you need to include in your writing:- Powerful language and vocabulary- Expanded noun phrases and relative clauses

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ceWho was Libbie Hyman and what did she learn about invertebrates?

All animals can be classified as either vertebrates or invertebrates. The difference between the two types of animals is that invertebrates do not have a backbone or spinal column. Which of the animal classes are vertebrates or invertebrates?

Libbie Hyman was a zoologist who researched vertebrates and invertebrates. She published highly detailed volumes of work about the characteristics and the taxonomy of invertebrates. Her work is widely regarded as an incredible achievement and is considered to be extremely important and useful for the study of different animals. She described the anatomy and characteristics of different vertebrates and invertebrates and explained how they should be classified.

Her accomplishments are considered so great because she conducted this incredible work by herself, without a team of researchers or any partners. The books she wrote are still considered some of the most useful and important in this area of science.

She had no assistant or secretary, and typed every word of her books. This was very unusual and makes her achievements even more special.

The Invertebrates was published between 1940 and 1967. Hyman researched invertebrates from other scientists' papers and by analysing specimens of different animals.

• Libbie Hyman was born in 1888 in Des Moines, Iowa in the USA.

• Hyman’s parents were Jewish immigrants. Her father was originally from Poland and her mother was from Germany.

• As a child, Hyman was interested in nature, and collected moths and butterflies. She learned the scientific names for flowers from her brother’s textbooks.

• At university, she wanted to study botany but was put off by the antisemitism (anti-Jewish bullying) that she encountered from a laboratory assistant. She studied zoology instead.

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Choose from this list of invertebrates, or research an invertebrate of your own choice.