Section outline

  • Kia Ora Class and welcome to week 7 of TERM 1!! This terms our context is 

    Year 8: Toanga of New Zealand. 

    Linked AOs: View AO Overview

    • ENG/Listening, Reading and Viewing/L4/Purposes and audiences

    • ENG/Listening, Reading and Viewing/L4/Language features

    This term we will complete a Visual Film study assessment on "Whale Rider", learn about TEXAS paragraphs and start looking at film techniques.

    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.

    We are learning how to write a TEXAS PARAGRAPH this week using the correct structure.