Autumn 2 - Team DB

In the second half of the autumn term, Team DB have studied the text 'Street Child', by Berlie Doherty. This text has lent itself as the hook into their writing for the half term. The class studied what the realms of the Victorian period was like for children, using images found from both primary and secondary sources to fuel their poetry learning. They discussed in detail how we do not always have to make poetry rhyme, and looked at metaphors and similes and applied these into their poetry. In their next piece of learning, they applied their knowledge of expanded noun phrases as well as using time conjunctions to ensure that their writing was cohesive. Team DB wrote their own diary extract based on the character Jim from the text, describing the daily life of a child in the workhouse.