19 June - 25 June

Kia ora 7F1,

Everyone is writing a Book Review on our shared novel "The Cay by Theodore Taylor.

This week you can spend some time on your draft book review :o) This is assessment 2 for English and is due on Friday 30th June (last day of term 2)

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 S2: View the power point presentation on google classroom - 'How to write A Book Review' - make short notes in your english book. 
2. Thursday S2: Writing your book review draft in your English book - following the guide to writing a book review (this is already glued into your English books) -  have a buddy read over, check for capitals, full stops and sentences that make sense... 
3. Friday S1: Who? What? Where? When? - cut each of the 16 squares and glue into your English book. Then cut the 16 squares that match up and glue beside them.

PLAN & DO / WHAKAMAHI learning intentions:

• We are PLANNING on preparing a book review so that we can publish and present to our library in a way that promotes our novels.