Kensukes Kingdom LO Identify key details Read Chapter

Kensuke’s Kingdom

LO – Identify key details Read Chapter 1 Peggy Sue

LO – Identify key details Information about Michael Information about Mum Information about Dad Information about Gran Explore the text to identify what information Michael gives us about himself, his mum, his dad and his Gran. Challenge – use quotations with quotation marks

LO – Exploring inferences • What do you think about Michael’s father’s decision to take his family sailing around the world? • In groups of 4, talk about whether or not it would be a good idea for your own family to sail around the world. • Write down the advantages and disadvantages for your own family setting out on a round the world trip.

LO – Nouns and their families Nouns: words for the ‘things’ in life: people, places, objects, feelings and ideas How many types – families - of nouns do you know?

LO – the noun family song

Proper nouns Common nouns Possessive pronouns Mum Dad Stella Eddie Matt Bobby Mudlarks letter house sheepdog lives frame playground match friend team my ourselves Relative pronouns who which that Abstract nouns regularity sameness weather Pronouns I me us she it him he Find your noun family Proper nouns Common nouns Pronouns Possessive pronouns Relative pronouns

Until I was nearly eleven, when the letter came, life was just normal. There were four of us in the house: my mother, my father, me and Stella – Stella Artois, that is, my one-ear-up and one-ear-down black and white sheepdog, who always seemed to know what was about to happen before it did. But even she could not have foreseen how that letter was going to change our lives for ever. Thinking back, there was a regularity, a sameness, about my early childhood. It was down the road each morning to ‘monkey school’. My father called it that because he said that the children gibbered and screeched and hung upside down on the climbing frame in the playground. And anyway, I was always ‘monkey-face’ to him, when he was in a playful mood, which he often was. After school every day, whatever the weather, I’d be off to the recreation ground for a football match with Eddie Dodds, my best friend in all the world, and Matt and Bobby and the others. We had our own team, the Mudlarks we called ourselves. Clue: a noun will usually have a determiner (or an adjective) just before it.

Until I was nearly eleven, when the letter came, life was just normal. There were four of us in the house: Mum, Dad, me and Stella – Stella Artois, that is, my one-ear-up and one-eardown black and white sheepdog, who always seemed to know what was about to happen before it did. But even she could not have foreseen how that letter was going to change our lives for ever. Thinking back, there was a regularity, a sameness, about my early childhood. It was down the road each morning to ‘monkey school’. My father called it that because he said that the children gibbered and screeched and hung upside down on the climbing frame in the playground. And anyway, I was always ‘monkey-face’ to him, when he was in a playful mood, which he often was. After school every day, whatever the weather, I’d be off to the recreation ground for a football match with Eddie Dodds, my best friend in all the world, and Matt and Bobby and the others. We had our own team, the Mudlarks we called ourselves.

LO – nouns and their families Can you recognise different types of nouns? Colour code this picture by noun family.

LO – Nouns and their families Pronouns Words which can replace a noun or noun phrase.

LO – the pronoun song

Pronoun Chart Subject pronouns Object pronouns Possessive pronouns Relative pronouns 1 st person singular I me mine who 2 nd person singular you yours whose 3 rd person singular he/she him/her his/hers whom 1 st person plural we us ours which 2 nd person plural you yours that 3 rd person plural they them theirs

I was there when the phone call came a week later. I knew it was my father. My mother said very little, so I couldn’t understand what was going on, not until she sat me down afterwards and told me. “He sounds different, Michael. Like his very old self, like he was when I first knew him. He’s found us a place. ‘Just pack your stuff and come, ’ he says. Fareham. Somewhere near Southampton. ‘Right on the sea, ’ he says. There’s something very different about him, I’m telling you. My father did indeed seem a changed man. He was waiting for us when we got off the train, all brighteyed again and full of laughter. He helped us with the cases.

Relative Pronouns A relative pronoun is a pronoun that introduces a relative clause. It is called a "relative" pronoun because it "relates" to the word that its relative clause modifies. Here is an example: The person who phoned me last night is my best friend. In the above example, "who“ relates to the person. There are five relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which, that. Who, whom and whose are for people. Which and that are for things. The Peggy Sue, which Dad had found by himself, was waiting for them at Fareham. Find more examples of different pronouns in the text.

LO – words in context Although Michael Morpurgo is a children’s writer, he never ‘talks down’ to his young readers and always uses ambitious vocabulary in his stories. Use a dictionary to find the meaning of the following words then write a sentence to show that you understand how to use it. Record some of the words for your own use. WORD revelling exhilarating gibbered savaged redundant lunacy liability MEANING SENTENCE