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English Year 1: Develop pleasure in reading, motivation to read, vocabulary and understanding by being encouraged to link what they read or hear to their own experiences See Neil speaking about his new novel, Fortunately, the Milk, a time-travelling adventure for young readers featuring aliens, dinosaurs, volcano gods and a pint of milk that saves the universe! This is athree-session spelling seed for the book Cinnamon by Neil Gaiman. Below is the coverage from Appendix 1 of the National Curriculum 2014. A short story set in India by Neil Gaiman illustrated by Divya Srinivasan, and read by a person whose name I could not find on a tiny Vox audio attachment to the physical copy of the book. It’s the story of a blind and mute Indian girl whose parents try—as parents will—anything to get the girl talking. I have an autistic son of 22 who does not talk and we have tried many things to get him to talk, but I have yet to try what these parents tried, which is to put the girl in the same room for a night with a (talking) Bengal tiger. The tiger (for no clear reason) elicits several emotions from the girl, including pain (he digs his nail in her, to prove what?!), fear and love and without much real effort gets her to talk, though her aunt is skeptical the plan worked. The aunt also apparently talks too much, and is annoying, so the tiger not only knows how to get kids to talk, he also knows how to stop aunts from talking:

The story itself is about a princess that doesn't speak. After numerous teachers have tried everything they could think of, she therefore gets put in a room with a man-eating tiger. But, typical Gaiman, nothing is as it first appears.In a hot, hot country, ringed with mountains on one side and jungle on the other, lives a princess called Cinnamon. Her eyes are made of pearls, which means that she is blind. And, for reasons her parents the Rajah and Rani cannot fathom, she will not talk. So they offer a reward to anyone who can teach Cinnamon to speak. People travel from far and wide to attempt it, but nothing works. Until a mighty tiger, huge and fierce, prowls into their palace and announces that he is here to teach the girl-cub to talk. Text Rationale: This is a three-week plus Writing Root using Cinnamon by Neil Gaiman in which children begin by making inferences about the characters and situations in the story. They go on to consider the emotions of characters including Cinnamon herself (in the form of diaries) and also of their parents when creating adverts. There is explicit teaching of the conventions of dialogue through drama and children go on to write a story in the style of Cinnamon using speech. Synopsis of Text Princess Cinnamon, the royal child of the Rajah and Rani of a small, hot country, had lovely, pearl-like eyes incapable of sight, and had been mute her entire life. Her concerned parents offered a room in the palace, a field of stunted mango trees and a portrait of the Rani's aunt to anyone who could make her talk. No one succeeded, until a fierce tiger, one who "moved like a god through the world," arrived, and taught the sheltered Cinnamon about some of the things she had been missing... According to Cinnamon, her father had told her: “If you loved me, you would do it.” She said that she, David and Patricia had spoken about pushing Linda out of a moving van during a trip to Riverside, hitting her over the head with some kind of heavy object and even throwing an electrical appliance into the bath while she was in it. One night, David then woke up both teenage girls and said: “Get up, girls. We have to do it tonight.” David took Cinnamon into the bedroom where he gave her pills to swallow to stage the appearance of a suicide attempt. Born and raised in England, Neil Gaiman now lives near Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has somehow reached his forties and still tends to need a haircut.

There is a Spelling Seed session for every week of the associated Writing Root. Coverage: Word List Words David then told Cinnamon that Patricia was going to explain how to carry out the murder. He left the home while Patricia loaded the gun and handed it to Cinnamon. She told her what to do next: enter Linda’s bedroom and shoot. However, the first shot hadn’t killed Linda. Cinnamon explained to the court room that she could hear Linda crying so she returned to the bedroom and shot once more. 3 Teaching Approach B: Questions in this section are the same as in Teaching Approach A, but are organised into several smaller groups. Each group of questions is focused on a smaller part of the text to allow the text to be covered in sections over time. Cinnamon is a modern fable, set somewhere in the Indian subcontinent and features a blind and initially mute protagonist. It is primarily the story of a girl who overcomes adversity and finds strength in an unusual friendship, but is told with a huge amount of wit and humour. The colourful illustrations, by Divya Srinivasan, are stunningly vivid and bring Neil Gaiman’s words to life. It is a great book to spark learning about India. Neil Gaiman is a much-celebrated author, also known for Coraline, Wolves in the Walls and American Gods. Links and themes:The story is not that remarkable, really. Is it in the manner of or in tribute to Indian fairy tales or fables? The book ends with a kind of nasty joke about the aunt, and the tiger walking off against the parents's wishes with the girl?! What about the girl being blind, what could be done with this and what about the sudden ability to speak? How can these things teach us something? I think the basic point of this story is, again, the joke; we expect a sweet little tale about a girl suddenly talking, but it is really a tale about shutting up a nosy old aunt. This resource has been organised in two different ways to give teachers flexibility with the way the text is covered. Newell said: “She is a very brave little girl, in my opinion.” Cinnamon divulged to the investigator that she had been enlisted to help in the murder plot by her father who had told her that Linda was planning on killing him. He claimed that Linda and her brother were members of the Mafia and they wanted control of his business, Data Recovery.

Following the arrests, investigators who had worked the original investigation said that they had always speculated that Cinnamon had not acted alone in killing Linda but Cinnamon had confessed to the murder right away and was adamant that she had acted alone. It was evident that she was protecting her father. “It never jelled real with me. All of the relatives said that Cinnamon and Linda got along famously,” said an investigator. English Year 2: Understand both the books that they can already read accurately and fluently and those that they listen to by answering and asking questions; making inferences on the basis of what is being said and done; and predicting what might happen on the basis of what has been read so far. naughty, difficult, regular, sentence, strange, pressure, question, special, breathe, ordinary Spelling Rules and Patterns Gaiman was the creator/writer of monthly cult DC Comics horror-weird series, Sandman, which won nine Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards. Norman Mailer said of Sandman: "Along with all else, Sandman is a comic strip for intellectuals, and I say it's about time."Cinnamon would be found guilty of first-degree murder. When the guilty verdict was read aloud, Cinnamon looked stunned and stated: “I don’t understand…” What the hell? This is a children's book? It's awful. The only thing it really has going for it is decent grammar and passable illustrations. This Reading Skills resource contains a range of questions about ‘Cinnamon’ by Neil Gaiman. The questions are organised into content domains to allow a focus on one or more specific skills.

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