1 May - 7 May

Setting of our shared novel: The Cay By Theodore Taylor. We take a look at Curacao in 1942, how does that compare with Curacao today? 

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

• Respond to text with our own unique writing voices
• listen to a novel as a shared reading and writing experience

• Use a variety of simple , compound and complex sentences in my writing
• proof read for punctuation and sentence sense in short answers
• give feed back and feed forward to a classmate's writing

Activities:

1. Monday S4: Introduction to The Cay and begin reading chapter one and two - find the Caribbean and the town where The Cay is set, do you think that is what it looks like today? Write 4 differences between Curacao in 1942 and today. think /pair/share. Record as bullet points in your English books.
2. Tuesday S4: Continue reading chapters 1 and 2, research the author Theodore Taylor and record 10 facts about him in your english book.
3. Friday S5: Library session - return your holiday reads and issue new novels.

EXPLORE / TŪHURA learning intentions:

• We are EXPLORING recognising and finding a new author to connect with as a class.
• We are EXPLORING how to measure our listening skills to empathise with characters in a novel.
• We are EXPLORING discovering and locating information from more than one source