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  • Kia Ora Class and welcome to week 3 of TERM 2!! Kindness week this week. Miss Twemlow will continue teaching you this week. There is a teacher only day on Monday, so please stay home. We will continue to view Whale Rider.

    This terms our context is 

    Year 9: Kaitiakitanga: Guardian of our natural world.

    Linked AOs: View AO Overview

    • ENG/Listening, Reading and Viewing/L5/Purposes and audiences

    • ENG/Listening, Reading and Viewing/L5/Language features

    This term we will complete a Visual Film study assessment on "Whale Rider", learn about TEXAS paragraphs and start speeches planning.

    FOCUS / ARONGA

    FOCUS / ARONGA learning intentions:


    • We are FOCUSING on using language features and increasing our vocabulary skills by describing key words in our film study
    • We are FOCUSING on using language features and increasing our vocabulary skills by explaining key words in our film study
    • We are FOCUSING on understanding the authors viewpoint/message of our visual text by identifying and discussing/ Kōrerorero, the main ideas of our visual text


    Activities and resources will be on google classroom.