The document provides instructions for students to design a book cover for the novel "Holes" and explain how its features link to the story. It also teaches about using connectives and clauses to vary sentence structures, including simple, compound, and complex sentences. Students are asked to imagine being the character Stanley Yelnats and write a diary entry about their first day at Camp Green Lake using different sentence structures.

1. Date: Tuesday 11th March 2014
Title: First Day At Camp
LO: To be able to vary sentences for clarity,
purpose and effect
In your book
Explain your front cover for ‘Holes’.
You must identify features of your cover, e.g. colours, pictures
You should explain how these features link to the story
You could analyse why you have chosen to include these features
instead of others

2. LO: To be able to vary sentences for
clarity, purpose and effect
Explain what has inspired your design for the front cover of ‘Holes’
Understand how to use connectives and clauses to vary sentences
To be able to use connectives and clauses to vary sentences

3. Explain what has inspired your design for the front cover of ‘Holes’
In your book
Explain your front cover for ‘Holes’.
You must identify features of your
cover, e.g. colours, pictures
You should explain how these features
link to the story
You could analyse why you have chosen
to include these features instead of
others

4. If chosen, explain your front cover to the
class.
If you are listening, try to think of
questions that you could ask about other
peoples’ work.
Explain what has inspired your design for the front cover of ‘Holes’

5. Understand how to use connectives and clauses to vary sentences
A simple
sentence…
A compound
sentence…
A complex
sentence…
Has one idea (clause)
Has one main clause (idea) and a
subordinate clause (an extra idea)
that would not make sense on its
own.
Two simple ideas
(clauses) joined together
using a connective

6. Understand how to use connectives and clauses to vary sentences
A connective is…

7. Understand how to use connectives and clauses to vary sentences
A simple
sentence…
A compound
sentence…
A complex
sentence…
Mrs. Large ran a deep,
hot bath.
She emptied half a bottle
of bath foam into the
water, plonked on her bath
hat and got in.
She poured herself a
cup of tea and she lay
back with her eyes
closed.

8. Understand how to use connectives and clauses to vary sentences
A simple
sentence…
A compound
sentence…
A complex
sentence…
Has one idea (clause)
Has one main idea (idea)
and an extra idea
(subordinate clause) that
would not make sense on
its own.
Two simple ideas
(clauses) joined together
using a connective
Mrs. Large ran a deep,
hot bath.
She emptied half a
bottle of bath foam into
the water, plonked on
her bath hat and got in.
She poured herself a cup
of tea and she lay back
with her eyes closed.
ExampleDefinitionSentence type

9. Use one of the connectives in the box to change this
short, simple sentence to a longer complex sentence.
Can you make a complex sentence with a
connective at the beginning?
because
if
therefore
so
in order to
since
The driver crashed into the house.
Why?
Understand how to use connectives and clauses to vary sentences

10. Use one of the connectives in the box to change this
short, simple sentence to a longer complex sentence.
Can you make a complex sentence with a
connective at the beginning?
when
while
until
after
before
The driver crashed into the house.
When?
Understand how to use connectives and clauses to vary sentences

11. Use one of the connectives in the box to change this
short, simple sentence to a longer complex sentence.
Can you make a complex sentence with a
connective at the beginning?
because
if
therefore
so
in order to
since
The cat fell asleep.
Why?
Understand how to use connectives and clauses to vary sentences

12. Use one of the connectives in the box to change this
short, simple sentence to a longer complex sentence.
Can you make a complex sentence with a
connective at the beginning?
when
while
until
after
before
The cat fell asleep.
When?
Understand how to use connectives and clauses to vary sentences

13. To be able to use connectives and clauses to vary sentences
Imagine that you are Stanley Yelnats. Write a diary entry about your first
day at Camp Green Lake.
• What did you do?
• Who did you meet?
• How did you feel?
Must (Level 3) Should (Level 4) Could (Level 5)
Use simple sentences
Connect your ideas using
words like and, but, so
Use compound sentences
Use some types of
connectives in your
writing e.g. if, when,
because
Use simple and complex
sentences in my writing
to make my ideas clear.
Use subordinate
connectives e.g.
although, on the other
hand, meanwhile

14. Review
LO: To be able to vary sentences for
clarity, purpose and effect
MUST (LEVEL 3):
Use simple sentences
Connect your ideas using words like and,
but, so
SHOULD (LEVEL 4):
Use compound sentences
Use some types of connectives in your
writing e.g. if, when, because
COULD (LEVEL 5):
Use simple and complex sentences in my
writing to make my ideas clear.
Use subordinate connectives e.g.
although, on the other hand, meanwhile
Tick the parts of
the success
criteria that you
think you have
achieved.
Write the
following
summary:
I think I have
achieved a level
____.
To improve, I
could…