Early Morning Task: Monday 1st March 2021

If we were going back in time to the Mayans, what 5 things would

you pack to take with you?

Coming up today…

English

Reading

Maths

Optional worship

10 minutes quiet reading or times table rockstars

Enquiry

Monday 1/3/21

Zoom input discussion

What animal do you see yourself

as?

What animal do you think you look most like?

Monday: 1/3/2021LO: I can comment on how a character has changed

Wonder online version - Open the link.

Read the following...

Read pages : p 196 - 200

Task: How have things changed for August since going on the trip?

You can present your learning however you like. You could do a ‘Before’ and ‘After’ picture of August with annotations, or a reflection from August, or a conversation between two characters talking about how he has changed. Any way you like.

English:

This week we are going to look at ‘The Mayan Creation Myth’

What is a myth?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zx339j6/articles/ztxwsrd

Myths were created by early civilisations to make sense of things happening in the natural world around them.

LO: I can respond to a Myth

Watch the re-telling of the Mayan creation Myth here -

Mayan Creation Myth

It is certainly a very different creation story to the ones that you have come across before.

You can read it on the next few slides too

What are you left puzzled about?

What could the Mayan people learn from this

story?

Before the world had a true form, there were two Gods. These Gods were Tepeu, the Maker and Gucumatz, the Feathered Spirit. While the world around them was dark, the two Gods glittered with

brilliant blue and green feathers. They came together to create the world.

Whatever they thought came into being. When they thought “Earth”, land formed in the darkness. They thought of mountains and valleys, pine trees and water and sky. All of these things appeared the

instant they thought them, and thus the Earth was formed.

Tepeu and Gucumatz decided that they needed beings there to look after their vast creation, and to praise their names as the creators. So they created deer and birds and panthers and serpents, all the

creatures that roam the Earth today. “Now praise us! Say our names!” commanded the creators.

But the animals could only roar or howl, bleat, bark, twitter or moan. They tried as hard as they could to speak, but they could not. They chirped and mewed at the top of their lungs until the noise was so

deafening, that Tepeu and Gucumatz ordered them to stop. Disappointed, the makers agreed that they would have to create better beings, ones who would be able to worship them properly.

The first race of men were made from wet clay. The creators gave them life, and the first men tried to speak; but instead they crumbled apart soon after they were made. The Maker and the Feathered

Spirit were determined to create a hardier race of men.

The second race of men were carved from wood. These were much stronger, and were able to walk and talk and multiply. But these men had no minds and their hearts were empty. They had no

memories of their creation and when they spoke their words were just as empty and meaningless. They could not praise their Gods.

Tepeu and Gucumatz sent a great flood down to destroy them. They commanded the animals to attack the survivors and tear them to pieces. The few who managed to escape fled to the woods

and became monkeys. The creators left them there as an example to the next race of men.

The Maker and the Feathered Spirit thought for a long time about how they should make the race of men they wanted. There seemed to be no perfect material to build them. Finally some animals

brought the Gods a stack of white corn which grew on the far side of the Earth. Tepeu and Gucumatz ground this into a paste and from this formed four individual men.

The new beings seemed perfect. They were sturdy enough to last and their minds were rich with thoughts and feelings. Their first act after their own creation was immediately worship Tepeu and

Gucumatz, and thank them for their lives. Tepeu and Gucumatz were pleased. “What do you see?” they asked the corn men.

“We can see forever, through rocks and trees and mountains to the edges of the Earth. We can see your entire creation, with all of its animals and plants. We can see and understand everything!”.

Tepeu and Gucumatz looked at each other, “Perhaps we made these beings too well… they should not see as well as WE do!” The makers removed some of the men’s vision. After that they could only

see things close to them, and they were no longer able to see through or above things that they should not. Thus their understanding of the world was weakened.

But the men still sang their creator’s praises and settled down to live on the new land. Tepeu and Gucumatz made four women to be their mates. These eight men and women were the ancestors

of all Quiche men and women today. Even today their sight and understanding of the world is not perfect.

LO: I can respond to a Myth

The Mayan Creation Story has lots of different parts to it.

The creators feel lots of different emotions - it doesn’t always go right the first time. They have to try multiple times to get it right.

Task: Draw each part of the Mayan Creation story. You must include lots of thought bubbles to depict how the creators were thinking and feeling at each part of the story!

Templates on the next slide if you want to use them

Extension:

Watch this clip and record any more information you can about the Mayan Creation Story https://www.nationalgeographic.org/video/the-mayan-s

tory-of-creation/

STARTER 01/03/2021Maths

Write it in words.

What is 18 less?

What is 99 more?

Add 223.

Round to the nearest 10.

What is the next odd number?

Complete the pattern (add 7): 117,

____, ____, ____

Is it a prime or composite number?

Is it divisible by 5?

Multiply by 100.

01/03/2021LO: I can find a one step rule (algebra)Maths

What do you think “one-step function” means?

What do you think input and output mean?

What if the input was 3? What would the output be? How did you work it out?

What if the output was 16? What would the input be? How did you work it out?

Here is the same function machine.

What is the output if the input is 2?

What is the output if the input is 7.2?

What is the input if the output was 20?

What is the input if the output was 22?

How many sets of inputs and outputs do you need to be able to work out the function? Explain how you know.

How are we going to work out what the

function is?

Task A: Complete these function machines.

Task B: Complete these more challenging function machines.

a

b

c

d

Task C: Use your new understanding to reason your answers.

a

b

Task A: Complete these function machines.

6

11

1.6

28

2

10

20

148-10

20.7

6

17

014.8

12.5199

-1

16

250

8.84

0.5

9.5

88

-1.5

Task B: Complete these more challenging function machines.

a

b

c

d

42120

25.213

9003

+1.75

10 10.8 15 2 -3 4 164 -5

17

102

48 72

25.5 13.5

16.5

2.54 6

-6 11

6

Task C: Use your new understanding to reason your answers.

a

b

George is incorrect. For example, if we inputted 2, then the output would be 15, which is not a prime number.

Jia is incorrect. If the input were -14, then the output would be -1.

Alice is correct. If we add 13 to any positive even number, then we are adding an odd and an even number together, which will always result in an odd number.

a) Multiply the input by itself/square the input.

b) Yes, as 169 is a square number. 13² = 169.

Monday Worship

Adam and Eve Disobey God

In what ways are you and your

families tempted?

Our worship discussion for today:

Times Table rockstars

Log on to Times Table rockstars for 10 minutes!

Your usernames and passwords are on seesaw. Log in to your journal and you should see them.

Quiet Reading

Spend 10 to 15 minutes reading quietly. You can choose to read whatever you like: a novel, a comic, the newspaper or even something online!

What can you remember about the

Ancient Mayans from last lesson?

Enquiry Question 2: Who did the Ancient Mayans worship?

Religion was an integral part of the ancient Maya culture, intertwined with all other aspects of society.

The Maya believed in and worshipped a number of different gods. They believed that the gods had a good side and a bad side and that they could help or hurt them. The Maya would

dance, sing and sometimes make offerings of blood to the gods to demonstrate their respect and loyalty.

https://vimeo.com/261216102

Religious Rituals

The Maya people performed many different religious rituals. These rituals were often performed during festivals or special ceremonies and they were a way of appealing to the

gods.Can you match up these rituals to their purpose?

Religious Rituals

The Maya people performed many different religious rituals. These rituals were often performed during festivals or special ceremonies and they were a way of appealing to the

gods.Can you match up these rituals to their purpose?

Enquiry Question 2: Who did the Ancient Mayans worship?

Religion was an integral part of the ancient Maya culture, intertwined with all other aspects of society.

The Maya believed in and worshipped a number of different gods. They believed that the gods had a good side and a bad side and that they could help or hurt them. The Maya would

dance, sing and sometimes make offerings of blood to the gods to demonstrate their respect and loyalty.

https://vimeo.com/261216102

Blood LettingStone carvings show rulers and nobles giving blood sacrifices.The Maya believed that the gods gave their own blood to create humans, so on special occasions the rulers would return the favour by offering their blood to the gods.This lintel shows Shield Jaguar, the warrior king of Yaxchilan, standing over his wife, Lady Xook, holding an enormous flaming torch. Lady Xook is pulling a thorn-studded rope through her tongue in an act of blood letting to honour the gods.

Let’s have a ponder...

1. Why do you think the

Maya people thought the

gods needed their blood?

2.Can you think of any

other civilisations that did

this, or can you think of

any stories about giving

blood for the gods?

Maya PriestsPriests were very important in Maya society as it was believed that they could communicate directly with the gods. The priests were responsible for leading rituals of worship and sacrifice, and telling the people what the gods wanted them to do. They would tell the people when to plant crops, who to marry and what sacrifices they should make. The people did all these things because they believed that the priest was speaking the wishes of the gods.

FestivalsDuring festivals, the priests would dance, sing, bang drums and make lots of noise on the steps of the temples while wearing brightly coloured clothing and headdresses containing the feathers of exotic birds. This ritual dance was thought to scare away demons and demonstrate the priest’s power and authority to the gods.

Let’s have a ponder...

1.Would you like to have been a Maya priest? Why/why not?2.Do you think people ever refused to do what the priest said? What do you think happened to them if they did not follow orders?

The Maya World

The Maya people believed that the earth, which they called the Middleworld, was large and flat and resting on the back of a creature (like a turtle or crocodile).On the Middleworld grew a tree whose branches reached up into the heavens (the Upperworld) and whose roots grew down into Xibalba (the Underworld) which was guarded by gods of death who looked like jaguars.The Maya believed that after they died, their souls would travel through a series of caves and tunnels to Xibalba (which means ‘place of fear’) but the rulers and noblemen believed there was a chance of them getting to the Upperworld.

Let’s have a ponder...

1.Why do you think the Maya believed most people went to the Underworld after they died?2.Why do you think the gods of death are depicted like jaguars?

Mayan GodsThe Maya people worshipped a number of different gods, many of whom had overlapping roles and names. Some had human form, some took the form of an animal and some were a phenomena of nature.Historians have discovered a lot about the Maya gods from carvings and codices (Maya books).

Task A: Read the information about some Maya gods on the following slides.Take notes on the gods’ names and meanings, appearances and other facts/features so you can complete your main task!

Mayan Gods

Main Task: You need to answer today’s enquiry question: who did the Ancient Mayans worship?

You can show your response to the question in any way you like. It must be best work.

Enquiry Question 2: Who did the Ancient Mayans worship?

Here are some ideas for how you could respond to today’s enquiry question:

Create ‘Mayan Gods’ Top Trump Cards (template on the following slides).

Create a ‘Mayan Gods Circle Book (circle template on the following slides).

Create a ‘Mayan Gods’ origami book. https://www.readbrightly.com/diy-origami-book/ Check out this webpage to find out how to make one!

Create ‘Mayan Gods’ masks or puppets.

Top Trumps Template

Circle Book Template