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Challenges subordinating conjunctions

Slowly, he slid forward. He was about to extend his hand when he heard a  crunching noise directly above him.

Hugging the jagged, crumbling wall with her back, she shuffled sideways.

Writhing and twisting, Katie crawled through the gaps in the crumbling columns and emerged in what had once been a magnificent pillared courtyard.

He came to a gateway and cautiously peered around it, not knowing what he was going to find on the other side.

She ventured a step closer. Then another.

He backed away. Looked around. As he did so, his gaze froze on something behind Katie.

Anything could be hiding in the shadows. As she drew her sword, she spun on her heels and checked behind her.

He drew his sword. Held the blade before him. Moved further into the shadows, scattering the rubble and loose stones.

Glancing down was  mistake. Her foot almost slipped, sending fragments of stone over the edge.

He stumbled and flung his hand out in front of him, groping for something to stop him falling.

Tom felt his ankles shoot out from under him and he toppled like a felled oak.

He darted down the slope, springing from rock to rock.

Desperately, he broke into a stumbling run.

He turned and ran and did not look back.

Blundering and slipping, he leapt from boulder to boulder, darting and dodging through the ruins.

She sprinted down the alley. At the end, she was faced with another collapsed wall that blocked the entrance to the courtyard. Another dead end.

He started to make his way towards the sound when a shadow moved behind him; something was raised above his head.

He slipped into a narrow passageway, and saw it was a dead end. He tried to back out, but the entrance was already blocked. He swung his head from side to side, searching for a way out, but there was none.

As he dug his heels into the horse’s flanks, he slapped its neck and urged it through the gates.

Katie galloped to the closest building, and she jerked her horse to a halt, she jumped from the saddle.

He grabbed the horse’s reins and swung himself up into the saddle.

He dismounted and tethered his horse to a hitching post.

Task- imagine you are Zoe arriving at Eels Island – begin to plan a descriptive piece. Begin to organise your ideas and paragraphs.  Think about the language used when
describing settings, use preposition, expanded noun phrases and personification in your writing.

Task 2 – Use your plan to create a descriptive piece of writing. write the your 1st draft in your book. Then edit and improve your writing. For your final draft word process it and email it to me. I can’t wait to read them. 

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Ruined cities.

He noticed her gaze upwards past his head. Out of the corner of his eye, as he turned, he thought he saw a flicker of movement by the gate, as if someone was dodging out of sight. But when he looked, there was no one there.

They trotted quietly around the city and entered it cautiously.

As she strode into the centre of the city, her stirred uneasily, ears back, nostrils quivering. Suddenly, one of the horses gave a high, terrified whinny, and shied, rearing. Kitty had to grip tightly with her knees to stop herself being thrown from the saddle.

He ducked and dived behind a pillar for cover.

Tom flung himself down behind the fountain.

John charged through the gaping doorway. Diving head first, he struck the ground in a tuck and rolled to his feet, sword at the ready.

For almost an hour, he dodged and hid, making a gradual skulking progress through the ruined city, jumping at every slight sound, every flickering movement.

Lying on her stomach, she crawled to the roof-edge and peered down.

As nimbly as a mountain  goat, he clambered to the safety of the rooftops, scaling the crumbling walls, and scampered across them, leaping over gaps.

Rob clambered up the outer walls, easily finding footholds in the rough-hewn stone.

Bending his knees, he leapt upwards in one swift movement.

She ran for the wall of rocks, pushed off the ground and jumped upwards.

He’d almost reached the next level, when the surface slid under his feet. he threw himself at the next ledge and clung on. Stones cascaded beneath his feet. as he pulled himself to safety, another stone bounded away into the dark.

Summoning his courage, he took a massive leap of faith. Piles of jagged masonry glinted in the moonlight far beneath hos feet as they flailed in the air.

As the hard grey wall rose up to meet him, he wondered if he’d misjudged his leap. But, suddenly, he was on the roof, staggering slightly, but still on his feet.

He sensed danger and leapt to his feet, drawing his sword.

A shadow darted ahead. He jumped and drew his sword.

The door was pushed open, the rusty hinges screeching. He clutched the longsword in both hands.

he clutched the hilt of his sword and gazed around with darting eyes.

Katie stopped dead in her tracks, staring upwards.

He straightened. Listened. Peered towards the empty shell that had once been the temple.

Trying to control the creeping terror that was spreading through her, she paused at the tunnel-like archway, and peered into the gloom….

Look out for part two tomorrow.

Task- imagine you are Zoe arriving at Eels Island – begin to plan a descriptive piece. Begin to organise your ideas and paragraphs.  Think about the language used when
describing settings, use preposition, expanded noun phrases and personification in your writing.

Was Zoe’s Dad right to stay with her Mum and separate from Zoe? Persuade me.

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Vocabulary – Make sure that you continue to ensure you find out the meaning and definitions of vocabulary that you do not know or understand in context.

Vocabulary – brazenly, determination, lethal, immortal, manipulating, battered, salvation, pitiful

Explain – What is Zoe looking for?

Retrieve – Find and copy a word on page 45 (Chapter 5) that shows that Scat is disrespectful towards Zoe.

Interpret – How do the Eels view William? Explain using evidence from the text.

Choice – Use a dictionary to enable you to match the vocabulary to the correct definition.

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