Section outline

  • FOCUS / ARONGA

    FOCUS / ARONGA learning intentions:

      • We are FOCUSED on responding to the film ‘Wonder’ by using an increasing understanding of the connections between oral, written, and visual language when creating texts
      • We are FOCUSED on responding to the film ‘Wonder’ by recognising the purpose and audience of the text.
      • We are FOCUSED on responding to the film ‘Wonder’ by explaining the ideas in the film.
      • We are FOCUSED on integrating our culture & identity in our creation (mask, song, story, poem etc.)

    Term 1: Week 5


    Creative Writing

    Our context for this term is "Kia Hono" . This concept is great because it is open to interpretation in that we are able to use many avenues to explore the topic. To me, it is a look into who we are and our place at MHJC.

    The overall working plan for English this term will look something like this using the term context as a slight guide: *

    - Introduction to creative writing (2 WEEKS)

    - Film study (2 WEEKS)

    - Film Analysis (2 WEEKS)

    - Assessment ONE* (3 WEEKS) Creative response to text

    - Procedural writing (1 WEEK)


    * Something about me: I’m a HUGE advocate of choice. Therefore, I take into account your opinions and interests when I design a plan for the term so if most of you would rather not do a creative response to a text, there will be other options we can discuss and explore.

    Success Criteria for Term 1: We are learning to...

    1) Creative writing

    • Free writing and the creative process

    • Using prompts 

    • Creative structure

    • Editing 

    2) Analysing film study techniques 

    3) Understand the meaning of the director's purpose

    4) Create our own pieces of written responses using the knowledge we have gained through film analysis

    5) Name the conventions and recognize the language features and techniques used in the film - using these to create our own short films

    6) Draft and edit our own procedural writing for technology


    Activities for week

    Refer to Google Classroom