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  • Term 2 (Week12- 29th June-3rd July 2020)

    Golden Happy Holidays Card | Birthday & Greeting Cards by Davia


    Kia Ora Y7. This is the final week to finish writing and submitting your speech. Also this week, you will submit your Term 2 assessment-Lockdown Comic on which you been working all of this term. 

    For your information, I am including the following dates so you have it all in writing:

    • Term 2: Week 12 -speech written and edited in consultation with the teacher, PDF uploaded on Google Classroom, cue cards printed

    • Term Holidays -memorise your speech

    • Term 3:Week 1-Practice your speech (We will start presentations this week with the people who would be ready)

    • Term 3:Week 2/3 –all three sessions-presentation of speech.

    • Term 3:Week 4 -Inter-whanau speech Semifinals & Finals (respectively 10th, 11th & 12th August)

    This week, your goal is to have the speech finalised and signed off by me. Upload a PDF on Google Classroom. That means, you can not make any change to your speech after this. Also, get your cue cards ready and you are good to go from there.

    Big Idea: Life In and After Lockdown

    Activities:
    -Completing speech writing.

    -Making cue cards.

    -Uploading the speech on Google classroom.

    -Submitting Term 2 Assessment-Lockdown Comic

    Learning Intentions: (We are learning to...)

    We are exploring....... the elements of Visual Language by observing and understanding symbols and examples We are exploring.......Visual Language by applying its elements to construct a comic based on Big Ideas of the context (Life In and After Lockdown)
    We are exploring....... the connections between oral, written, and visual language by creating a visual text (Lockdown Comic) 

    We are exploring....... the elements of Verbal Language by understanding and applying content, language, and text forms in our speech

    FOCUS

    Focus....... We will create a Comic (Visual Text) by applying  the elements of Visual Language and integrating it with our experiences during and after Lockdown
    We are FOCUSED.....on developing our understanding by identifying a range of important lessons/experiences from lock down/ Life After Lockdown
    We are FOCUSED.....on effective public speaking by understanding, discussing  and applying the features of verbal language, body language and making an oral presentation.
    We are FOCUSED..... on expressing our ideas, opinions and thoughts on our chosen topic by planning and constructing our speech.

    Success Criteria: (I can)
    -use an increasing understanding of the connections between oral, written and visual language when creating text (Comic & Speech)

    - apply various features of Visual Language in my Comic from the given list such as:
    Dominant- Image , Colour, Texture, Shape, Symbolism, Lettering/ Font, Proportion, Layout, Rule of thirds Negative-Space,  Logo, Panels, Emanata, Gutters, Bleed, Speech Bubbles, Thought Clouds, Narratory Block, Sound Effect, Caption, Label, Close Up, Long Shot, Reverse etc. 

    -form and communicate ideas and information clearly, drawing on a range of sources to show increasing awareness of a range of dimensions or viewpoints. (Comic & Speech)

    -construct texts (Comic & Speech) that demonstrate an understanding of purpose and audience through deliberate choice of content, language, and text form

    -can seek  feedback to make changes to texts to improve clarity, meaning, and effect
    -use a wide range of oral, written and visual language features and an increasing range of vocabulary to communicate precise meaning & effect, to sustain interest and to achieve a sense of coherence when constructing texts (Comic & Speech)

    -convey and sustain a personal voice where appropriate by being reflective about the production of my own texts: monitor and self-evaluate progress, articulate learning with confidence. (Comic & Speech)

     Resources:

    Use these notes when you practice your speech: 

    Just as words form the spoken language to communicate a message, the way we stand, where we look, how we move our hands and the tone of our voice form the body language.

    Eye Contact

    • Look at the audience for 3 seconds before you begin

    • look at several people throughout the audience (If you find this really difficult, look at the top of the heads of the people in the back row, then at least your voice will carry to everyone in the audience)

    Presentation Voice

    • Take a deep breath

    • begin speaking in a voice louder than your usual conversation voice

    Set Your Hands

    • Hold your cue cards loosely in one hand

    • Hold your hands together

    • Keep them about waist high in front of you

    • Set your feet

    • Place your feet & shoulder wide apart

    • Balance your weight evenly on both feet.