Section outline

  • This week we move into our Globe Trotting Olympics Context with the viewing and study of a movie - COOL RUNNINGS.

    SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT... As at Tuesday midnight we are all in level 4 - working from home for a week, I have put the movie on google classroom so you can watch it at home - enjoy!!!


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

    •Integrate sources of information, processes, and strategies confidently to identify, form, and express ideas using a visual text (movie)

    •explore the context/ themes of the movie in relation to our lives today

    Success Criteria: I can/have...

    • use prior knowledge and research to understand the setting of the movie
    • summarise the story using key words and facts - note taking
    • identify themes in the movie and write about them
    • identify main characters and describe their role on the movie
    • understand how comedy is created in the film

    Activities:

    1. Tuesday S1: NZ Olympics: we have just completed a very successful Olympic campaign - write a paragraph on New Zealand's winning medal athletes in your English book - you may research to find this information. Include where were they held? Why 2021? Challenges faced in living in the village? Audiences? (20 mins) https://www.olympic.org.nz/games/tokyo-2020/
    2. Background information for Cool Runnings. Google classroom document to research questions,   choose 3 points to research and share information - map work, what can you learn from this movie? notes in English book (40 mins)
    3. Thursday Session 2: view Cool runnings movie
    4. Friday S3: FFR time to complete viewing of Cool Runnings movie 

    Follow up tasks:

    Review points from the movie at home in your own time

    EXPLORE / TŪHURA

    EXPLORE / TŪHURA learning intentions:

    • We are EXPLORING how research and organisation can connect us through speech and allow us to recognise and display public speaking skills
    • We are EXPLORING finding themes in a movie and integrating those themes with our Olympic context
    • We are EXPLORING how to empathise with characters in a movie and discover how the story moves through the characters actions