Kensuke's Kingdom Book Year 6 Activities

Based on the book Kensuke we can immerse our students in motivating them with lots of activities:

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Michael Morpurgo often writes about animals in his books. In Kensuke’s Kingdom, Kensuke has made friends with the orang-utans. Read the following extract again:

“A shadow under the trees moved and came lumbering out into the sunlight towards us. A monkey, a giant monkey. Not a gibbon at all. It moved slowly on all fours, and was brown, ginger-brown. An orang-utan, I was sure of it. He sat down just a few feet from me and considered me. I dared not move. When he’d seen enough, he scratched his neck casually, turned and made his way on all fours slowly back into the forest. (p.66)”

 Re-write the story of Kensuke’s Kingdom from Tomodachi’s point of view.

This is your chance to use as many adjectives as possible.

Here are some things to think about including in your writing:

• Describe their initial reaction to having a stranger and a dog on the island

• Describe what Michael and Stella looked like

• Describe how Stella and Michael arrived

• Describe how this would have made you feel. Did it remind you of anything?

• Describe how the relationship between Michael and Kensuke changes over time.

• Describe Michael and Stella’s departure and the effect it had on Kensuke.