Section outline

  • Kia ora...For this week we will explore possible Centralised Assessment Test questions and prepare for these by developing our skills. Skills include essay writing: and paragraph writing techniques applied to Pros and Cons how to answer an essay and disect a question/interpret images/posters/cartoons/ evaluate graphs and statistics/ as well as understand what is critical thinking.

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    Achievement Objectives: Enter AO's here

    Big Idea:  Celebrations: Careers

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

    • update our resources and learning materials for our final test during this term
    • buddy share knowledge and skills
    • prepare answers for possible test questions and time ourselves

    Success Criteria: I can/have...

    Prepare in advance for the upcoming test. Involves skills building

    Activities:

    1. Update all work on MHOnline. I have  already emailed all necessary resources t and questions o prepare for you end of year CAT.
    2. I will take questions and concerns form the class to address in class. This will begin with ideas from term one. Write down and sketch the way I expect essays to be answered.
    3. There after as a class we will examine one question from your scope sheet.
    4. Thereafter, by working in teams of 3/4, prepare essays writing Pros and Cons off writing techniques. based on all questions given in the scope sheet. Your should have a struct that includes: Introduction, topic paragraphs, recommendations or solutions and a conclusion.
    5. For in-depth study of a question you are encourage to use quotations examples/ arguments with justifications/ statistics with an evaluation/ critical thinking/ comparisons and contrasts/ hypothesis/ and interpretation with you views.
    6. We will study resources to interpret that mainly involve maps, graphs and  political cartoons. You should understand the meaning, message, intentions, relations to wider world or inferencing as well as your view points: eg below to interpre and analyse:
      1. See maps on the white board that relate to Tribes in the Amazon Basin. Identify the title, date and what you se/ Explain/ predict what has occurred to tribes over time.k
      2. See graph on the white board that show levels of deforestation in the Amazon Basin.Interpret what you see. Why do you think there has been a decline of deforestation in recent times. What predictions do you have for the future.
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