Section outline

  •           PLAN & DO / WHAKAMAHI

    FOCUS / ARONGA learning intentions:


    We are PLANNING a debate to create text that can contribute to national and global conversations through my original interpretations of texts and through the texts I create.

    We are     PLANNING to demonstrate that, as a text creator, I can create texts to advocate for myself, for others, and to try to change my world.

    We are PLANNING a presentation to create text that can contribute to national and global conversations through my original interpretations of texts and through the texts I create.

    Knows Covered:


    KNOW: As a text creator, I can contribute to national and global conversations through my original interpretations of texts and through the texts I create.


                                                                                       Success Criteria: I can...


    For a specific audience, I can design an oral text to present and advocate for my ideas.

    I can deliberately design texts for different audiences to share my ideas with different audiences, knowing that how I communicate my ideas can play a part in shaping society.


    Week 3 Learning Activities


                                                                                                   Monday

    • Divide the class into two groups (for the topic/against the topic) and they will have a debate.
    • The topic of the debate will be "Acts of discrimination should be dealt with more harshly."
    • Give the teams time to write what they want to debate about.
    • Then each team will select three speakers who will talk in front of the class for a maximum of 3 minutes about why their side is right.
    • After each team has spoken, decide who wins the debate based on who has made the most valid points.


                                                                                                  Tuesday


    • You will first watch this   about how to be a more confident public speaker.
    • Then from slide 4 of the "Oral Presentations Slideshow" write in your English books how you would show the 8 tips for becoming a better speaker. Also, write how you would show the opposite and what the 8 tips for being a worse public speaker would be i.e. doing the opposite of the 8 tips for becoming a better speaker.
    • Afterwards, look at this website and write a speech about how we can show unity during the olympics.
    • Finally, draw, label and colour a picture of what you wish would happen about laws on speaking in different places such as being able to say whatever you want or at the volume you want in certain places in your English books to AT LEAST A YEAR EIGHT STANDARD.

                                                                                         Thursday

    • You will first watch this   about New Zealand apologies for the Dawn Raids.
    • Then you will think of a time when you were discriminated.
    • You will then make a presentation about that time with the 5W's and 1H: What, where, when, why, who, how. Make sure that you include images too.
    • If you cannot think of a time of when you were discriminated you will make a presentation about a famous person who has experienced discrimination before.