In Literacy we have been learning about the poem the Highwayman and in a few weeks will be presenting a special assembly to Year 6 about it. This will be recorded and put on a podcast for everyone to listen to! We are finding some of it tricky as there are lots of unfamiliar words and the themes are quite complex to understand!
However 5Magenta are doing a very good job and working very hard. Here is some of our homework of a character profile of Tim the Ostler....
I can see a face. He is scary and angry and I can see his hand is weird. He is not wearing good clothes. He doesn't want to smile. His hair is like a crazy tree with a long neck and large face.
By Asim
Tim has an unusual hair style. People describe his hair as toilet brush hair, which he ignores. His teeth are as sharp as a dog and he looks a bit like one too! His nose is flat like a first reader book and his eyebrows are thick. Tim is very tall, even bigger than his door. He has huge eyes like a cat, infact maybe even bigger, Tim looks like he has strong arms, when you touch it they feel like iron.
Tim like playing with dogs. Everyone calls him Mr Iron. He doesn't like bullies because when they see him, they laugh at him and how he looks. Tim likes to go shopping for clothes. He hates his hair the most because he thinks it looks ugly.
By Nadia
Nadia has used lots of brilliant language features in her character descriptions! How many can you identify?
Tim is a very poor man, he works as a servant for the landlord. He has spiky hair and a big nose. He also looks very scary with a weird hair style. He may seem bad and evil but really he is a kind and gentle man. He hides the Highwayman sometimes. He likes to help around the house, he shares his food with the poor and does everything he can for the landlord. He always tries his best to help everybody.
By Ali
I really like this one because it is so different to everybody else's interpretation. Ali really used his imagination to create this character.... (unfortunately Tim is not the nice, gentle creature Ali believes him to be...)
Class challenge: Can you draw the best picture of the highwayman, entries must be black and white and no larger than A4... best ones to be displayed on next week's blog and 2HP's!!!
