Month: March 2016

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March 22, 2016 / / 1 Comment

The clock strikes… Eleven… Twelve… Thirteen! Tom ran down the stairs and finds a…

Extract from Tom’s Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce

I chose this sentence because ”Thirteen” to me sounds like the clock that Tom hears is magical and a sound leads to a noun which is why the number thirteen might be a specific noise that the author wrote so that the reader can feel like the clock is special and that it allows Tom to wake up and go somewhere.

The part where it says:

”Tom raced down the stairs and finds a……”could be a cliff hanger because the author hasn’t told us where Tom is going and I think that’s suspense because there are no full stops just ellipses and that might pause the sentence to make us think what might happen next.

The common nouns are the clock and stairs and the proper noun is Tom.

The verbs are strikes, finds and ran as it is an action

There is one definite articles: THE , and there is one indefinite article which is (A) at the end of the sentence and it adds suspense because we don’t know what will happen next..

The main clause is when “Tom goes down the stairs” because that sentence alone introduces a character and tells us that he ran which is the verb.

There are no adjectives and adverbs.

The exclamation mark has been put in the sentence because it wants us to think about what happens next and also because it’s a surprising number on a clock especially during the morning. The exclamation mark also tells us something loud is in the sentence and that might be referring to a specific onomatopoeia which again tells us that the clock is special in a different kind of way.

The craftsman and his son.

March 8, 2016 / / 0 Comments

Once upon a time there was a craftsman who invented new creations for his country, Egypt. He was well known for her inventions. A lot of them were things such as the tomb. The craftsman had an intelligent son who created the sun dial and the wheel.

One day, the craftsman’s son had created a “book of the dead”( which is a book full of spells so that a human can go to the afterlife and not go to hell) for the pharaoh and he was so pleased that he made the craftsman’s son the royal inventor. However, the craftsman was so mad that at night time, when everyone was asleep, he carried his son to the river Nile and threw him and the water washed his son away to a waterfall, where he fell and died. A week later, the craftsman told the pharaoh that his son went to another country to live a happier life and the craftsman was hired as the new royal inventor and he lived a happy life.

Years went by and the pharaoh passed away. The villagers made a great funeral in his honour and the craftsman was hired as the new pharaoh …when the craftsman was asleep in his king size bed he heard a gust of wind and his door swung open. The craftsman’s heart was racing as he saw his son (at least what was left of him) and his son dimmed the lights.

The very next day, the craftsman’s guards came to his bedroom and they found the head of the craftsman.

Create your own myth

March 4, 2016 / / 0 Comments

4/3/16

Once upon a time there was a craftsman who invented new creations for his country, Egypt. He invented the tomb. The craftsman had a son, who was much more cleverer than him and created traps for grave robbers so that they won’t steal the riches of the pharaoh when he died. One day, the craftsman’s son had created a book of the dead for the pharaoh when he goes to the afterlife.