Jack And The Bean Stalk

Play Summary - Term 3 Weeks 1-2

For the next two weeks you are working in groups
to practise and perform a play. This is using our oral
language and reading skills in literacy. Our key
competency focus is participating and contributing.

For writing your task is to summarise the main
events in your play in three paragraphs.
You must plan your writing first but it is up
to you how you do your planning.  You
must also write a fourth paragraph about your
experience of practising and performing your play.

Yr 6

I am learning to organise my text into paragraphs which begin with
a main idea and contain supporting information/detail.

I am learning to make links across paragraphs.

I am learning to use basic punctuation accurately.

I am learning to use dialogue punctuation accurately.

Yr 7

I am learning to use a range of different planning styles.

I am learning to plan my writing to suit the purpose of my writing.

I am learning to organise my ideas into paragraphs where the ideas
are clearly related and where there are links within and between paragraphs.

I am learning to use basic punctuation accurately in my writing.

I am learning to use complex punctuation to enhance my writing
e.g. colons : and semi-colons ; , and parentheses ().

Jack And The Beanstalk

In the beginning Jack and his mother were very poor.
One day Jack’s Mother told him to sell their cow. Jack
said, “We are sorry to have to sell you, Daisy.” Jack
stops and points he said, “who’s that coming towards
us? He’s dressed in very fine clothes. I don’t think
I’ve ever seen this man around here before!”

In the second part of the story, the man dressed
in fine clothes was a magic beans trader.
The magic beans trader said to Jack,
“Good day young man. Are you
Taking your cow to the market?”
Jack said, “Yes” The magic beans
trader said, “Wow! It must be my
lucky day.” Jack says, “What will
you give me for her?”
The magic beans trader said,
“Something even better than money
… magic beans plant them tonight and all your dreams will come true”

Jacks says, “Wow thank you please take care of her”

At the end of the story, Jack’s mum wakes
him up in the morning to show that there
was a giant beanstalk outside. Jack ran
outside to climb it. His mother told him
not to but he climbed it anyway.
He climbed higher and higher.

When Jack got to the top he saw a huge castle.
Jack says, “Wow everything is massive up here
I wonder who lives here.” Then Jack heard a
noise and went to hide. The giant shouts,
“Fee, fi, fo, fum, I smell the blood of and
englishman!” The giant repeats,
“Fee, fi, fo, fum, I smell the blood of
and english man!” The giant says,
“Sing” and the golden harp  began
to play music and the giant fell asleep.
Jack steals the golden harp and the
hen that lays golden eggs. As Jack
runs away the giant wakes up and
starts to chase him.  Jacks mum
chopped down the beanstalk and
Jack jumped down and landed in the
soft hay. And the giant was never seen again and
Jack and his mother are now rich.

I think that our group did alright with teamwork
because it took us at least 30 minutes to start
rehearsing and they broke some of the props
because they were being silly. I think my team
did good in participation when we started
rehearsing they were doing good voices that suited the characters.

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