Wednesday 12th November 2025
Grammar Warm Up
LC: to identify what makes an effective simile starter
Look at the simile starters.
Discuss with your talk partner:
- where does the simile come in the sentence?
- what punctuation comes after the simile starter?
- which words show it is a simile?
Let's use these answers to create Success Criteria for an effective simile starter.
LC: to make inferences about characters and to justify using evidence from the text
Think about the contrast between characters.
Contrast means two things that are different to each other.
For example:
Jennie - spreads gossip and lies about people in a way that makes others believe it is the truth.
Josie - heard what her dad said about immigrants which she thinks must be the truth (because her dad said it) but has doubts about this truth because she has met Ahmet.
Talk to your partner about the contrast between these two characters. How are they different to each other?
The narrator and Brendan.
The narrator -
Brendan -
Do the next task on Seesaw.
Use your notes to write a paragraph about the character of
Mrs Khan. Use your notes from Seesaw.
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LC: To divide by 10, 100 and 1000.
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LC: The know what Muslims believe about the Quran being the word of God.
Click here to learn about The First Pillars of Islam
Watch the videos.
The Shahada states that "There is no God but Allah and Muhammad (PBUH) is his final messenger."
What does this tell us about the importance of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)
Muhammad is the final prophet in Islam, known as the 'Seal of the Prophets'. This means that Muslims regard Muhammad as Allah's final messenger.
Discuss: What does it mean to be the 'final messenger'?
