In term 4, we will be reading 'Who let the Gods out?' by Maz Evans, to inspire us in preparation for writing a newspaper report about the release of Prisoner 42...

Summary

Elliot Hooper is a twelve-year-old boy, struggling to look after his very ill mother, failing at school and desperate to find a way to save his family farm from repossession. His life is suddenly interrupted when the constellation Virgo crashes through the roof of his cow shed one night. At first Elliot mistakes her for a slightly confused teenage girl and chivalrously accompanies her to deliver ambrosia to Prisoner 42 who has been buried beneath Stonehenge for two thousand years. Unfortunately, they accidentally release the prisoner who turns out to be the Daemon of Death, Thanatos, who wishes to bring chaos to the mortal world.

From this moment the book takes you on a rip-roaring adventure in the company of a wise-cracking cast of Greek Gods, Daemons and Pegasus the flying horse. Elliot must help the Gods recover the Chaos Stones before Thanatos can get his evil hands on them and also prevent his equally evil, mortal neighbour, Patricia Porshley-Plum, from building a housing estate on his farm.

We will also be reading 'Percy Jackson and the Lightening Thief' by Rick Riordan as a guided reading text for the term.

Summary

Twelve-year-old Percy Jackson is on the most dangerous quest of his life. With the help of a satyr and a daughter of Athena, Percy must journey across the United States to catch a thief who has stolen the original weapon of mass destruction — Zeus’ master bolt. Along the way, he must face a host of mythological enemies determined to stop him. Most of all, he must come to terms with a father he has never known, and an Oracle that has warned him of betrayal by a friend.

Our writing genres for this term include:

• a newspaper report
• an extended story in the form of a myth
• a biography.