Section outline

  • Week 4

    EXPLORE / TŪHURA

    EXPLORE / TŪHURA learning intentions:

      • We are exploring......Life Beyond MHJC by linking school work to the real world.
      • We are exploring.......Life Beyond MHJC by developing our work- ready skills for work experience
      • We are Exploring ….. .Life Beyond MHJC by discovering our aptitudes, skills and passions for work placement
      • We are Exploring …...Life Beyond MHJC by analysing the work opportunities available to us
      • We are Exploring ….. .Life Beyond MHJC by connecting with the potential employers for work placement
      • We are Exploring ….. .Life Beyond MHJC by connecting with employers (email, phone) to find a work experience placement
      • We are exploring.......ways to convey our ideas on a range of topics for different purposes and audiences by understanding, constructing and applying content, language and text forms in our writing.

    Big Idea: Life Beyond MHJC

    Activities: 

    -Co-requisite Reading & Writing Tests
    -Writing Practice for CAT

    Success Criteria:

    Work

    Placement

    I can explore my aptitudes, skills and passions for work placement

    I can identify my aptitudes, skills and passions for work placement

    I can focus on my aptitudes, skills and passions for work placement


    I can apply my aptitudes, skills and passions in work placement


    Work

    Opportunities

    I can explore a few work opportunities available to me

    I can  identify a few work opportunities available to me

    I can apply for the work opportunities available to me

    I can secure a work placement for myself

    Purpose & Audience




    I can attempt to construct a text that demonstrates an understanding of purpose and/or audience 

    I can attempt to construct a few texts that demonstrate an understanding of purpose and audience

    I can construct texts that demonstrate an understanding of purpose and audience through deliberate choice of content

    I can confidently construct texts that demonstrate an understanding of purpose and audience through deliberate choice of content, language and text form

    Language Features

    I can explore a few verbal & written language features and vocabulary when constructing texts

    I can identify a few verbal & written language features and vocabulary to communicate precise meaning and to achieve a sense of coherence when constructing texts


    I can use verbal & written language features and an increasing range of vocabulary to communicate precise meaning, to sustain interest and to achieve a sense of coherence when constructing texts


    I can confidently use a wide range of verbal & written 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


    RESOURCES:

    Using the given template on Google classroom, write the following letter:

    One of the local parks has been vandalised. Write a letter to the editor, for publication in the local newspaper, to explain what impact this vandalism has had on the users of the park. You may wish to include solutions on how to remedy the damage and/or how to prevent future vandalism.  

    Write between 150 words and 250 words.