LC: Be able to use point and evidence when giving my views about texts.

We are going to compose some complex sentences using the conjunction because to say why we think the actions in The Green Children story happened.

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Clac straightened his back, braced his aching shoulders, and grunted. Sweat trickled down his face and dripped from the end of his nose.  He licked his lips. They tasted of salt. Clac glanced down the long, straight swaths of corn, then, rubbing the back of his neck between his shoulder blades, he considered the position of the sun.  But his stomach was his best clock.  He filled his lungs, cupped a huge hand to his mouth, and bellowed “FOOD!”

The other cottars heard him.  One by one they stopped work and mopped their brows. One by one they left their own strips of land and began to walk slowly towards him. Their scythes gleamed in the midday sun and a very small wind moved over the swaths and whispered warnings to the ears of uncut corn.

“Come on,” called Clac.  He sat on the turf balk dividing his strip from the next, waiting impatiently.  “ This sun… I’ve had enough of it.” “So have I,” groaned Grim.  He slumped against the balk. “And so have I,” sighed Swein, collapsing in a heap like a sack of potatoes. Suddenly, a movement caught Clack's attention. “Come on,” cried Clac, “you and you and all the rest of you.”

Panting heavily, the others followed him. “Look!” insisted Clac, pointing again.“Look!” And there, huddling in the hollow of the largest pit, the cottars saw what Clac had seen: two green children. Their skin was green, their hair was green, they wore green clothes.  And one was a boy, the other was a girl.